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• Tirzepatide Matches Competitor's Cardioprotective Benefits for Diabetics

  17-12-2025 23:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The dual GIP/GLP-1 receptor agonist tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) was just as cardioprotective as the GLP-1 drug dulaglutide (Trulicity) in patients with type 2 diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, a large...
  
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• Gout and Its Comorbidities

  17-12-2025 23:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Gout, the most common form of inflammatory arthritis, often coexists with comorbidities that require integrated assessment and treatment.
  The burden of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) comorbidities among adults with gout...
  
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• Combination Model May Improve Diagnosis of Serious Respiratory Infections

  17-12-2025 23:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A model that combines a host biomarker with a generative artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of electronic medical records may improve the diagnosis of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs), such as pneumonia, in critically...
  
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• High-Fat Cheese May Have Cognitive Benefit, Study Suggests

  17-12-2025 23:19 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Higher intake of high-fat cheese and cream in midlife was tied to a lower risk of subsequent dementia, a 25-year study in Sweden showed.
  Adults who ate 50 g or more of high-fat cheese daily had a 13% lower risk of all-cause...
  
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• Four Republicans Defy House Speaker to Force Vote on Extending ACA Subsidies

  17-12-2025 23:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Four centrist Republicans broke with House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a vote on extending for 3 years an enhanced pandemic-era subsidy that lowers...
  
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• Two Extended-Release Buprenorphine Doses Effective in High-Risk Opioid Use Disorder

  17-12-2025 22:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Two dose levels of maintenance treatment with extended-release buprenorphine (Sublocade) improved opioid abstinence in patients with high-risk opioid use disorder (OUD), a randomized trial showed.
  After two buprenorphine injections...
  
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• Major Developments in Psoriatic Disease

  17-12-2025 21:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the recent Maui Derm, George Martin, MD, founder and program director of the meeting, shared major developments in therapeutics for psoriatic disease--particularly in the oral space. From next-generation TYK2 inhibitors...
  
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• ADHD App Cleared; Anti-Inflammatories for Depression; Charges Over Adderall Scripts

  17-12-2025 21:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA cleared a prescription smartphone app, dubbed LumosityRx, to help improve attention in adults with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), maker Lumos Labs announced.
  Teva Pharmaceutical submitted its once-monthly...
  
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• Big Bump in Concierge, Direct Primary Care in Recent Years

  17-12-2025 21:16 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The number of concierge and direct primary care practices in the U.S. rose sharply in recent years, as did the number of clinicians providing such care, researchers found.
  Concierge and direct primary care practices increased...
  
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• Improving Oral Chemotherapy Adherence in Pediatric ALL

  17-12-2025 20:21 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the recent American Society of Hematology annual meeting, researchers presented data highlighting new behavioral and family-centered strategies to improve adherence to oral chemotherapy in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia...
  
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• Virtual Weight-Loss Program Shows Potential for Vets With Serious Mental Illness

  17-12-2025 18:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A fully remote tailored weight-loss program showed potential for helping veterans with obesity and serious mental illness lose weight, a randomized trial showed.
  Among 256 veterans, weight loss was greater among those participating...
  
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• Top Cancer Center to Cough Up $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations

  17-12-2025 18:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will pay $15 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by making materially false statements and certifications related to NIH research grants, the Department of Justice (DOJ...
  
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• Brain Tumor Warning Added to Birth Control Shot

  17-12-2025 18:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved a label change for the birth control shot depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera), which now warns about the risk of meningioma, according to a letter posted on the agency website on Friday.
  The new...
  
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• FDA's $250K Travel Bill; Q&A With Retsef Levi; Staffers Air Hoeg Concerns

  17-12-2025 17:13 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.
  FDA Travel Spending During Shutdown Draws Scrutiny
  The FDA approved $250,000 in spending...
  
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• Former Top NIH Official Sues the Trump Administration

  17-12-2025 16:57 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A former leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sued the Trump administration Tuesday, saying she was illegally fired for warning that abrupt research cuts were endangering patients and public health.
  The...
  
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• Doctor Who Helped Sell Ketamine to Matthew Perry Before His Death Avoids Prison Time

  17-12-2025 16:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A doctor who pleaded guilty in a scheme to supply ketamine to actor Matthew Perry before his overdose death was sentenced Tuesday to 8 months of home confinement.
  Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence that included...
  
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• Quality of Life an Ongoing Struggle in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis

  17-12-2025 16:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) comes with a heavy quality-of-life burden that doesn't disappear after the early disease phase.
  This rare but heterogeneous disease causes systemic symptoms...
  
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• CDC Adopts Contentious Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendation

  17-12-2025 15:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The CDC has formally adopted a recommendation from its vaccine advisory panel to stop recommending hepatitis B vaccination for every newborn at birth.
  The agency said Tuesday that the childhood immunization schedule will be...
  
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• Trump's Controversial Cancer Doc; Body Part Thief Sentenced; Criminalizing Medicine

  17-12-2025 15:04 via medpagetoday.com
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  Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, a Yale emeritus professor who was appointed chairman of the President's Cancer Panel, has speculated about links between turbo cancers and...
  
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• First Twice-Yearly Biologic Approved for Severe Eosinophilic Asthma

  17-12-2025 14:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved depemokimab (Exdensur) as the first ultra-long-acting biologic with twice-yearly dosing approved for patients with severe asthma with an eosinophilic phenotype, GSK announced.
  The subcutaneous anti-interleukin...
  
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