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• How to Improve the Health Payment System? Experts Count the Ways at Senate Hearing.

  18-12-2025 23:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- What's the best way to make sure providers are encouraged to provide the highest quality care at the lowest price? Witnesses at a Senate hearing on the topic offered different answers to that question.
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• Trump Order Aims to Expedite Marijuana Rescheduling, Launches Medicare CBD Program

  18-12-2025 23:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many...
  
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• Vaccine Critic Plays Doctor; 'Sicked' the Musical; Eat Your Beans!

  18-12-2025 22:12 via medpagetoday.com
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  Following claims by vaccine critic and lawyer Aaron Siri that two kids in Texas did not die from measles...
  
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• 'A Fiasco'; Diabetes Drugs and GI Cancer Risk; New Guidelines on Liver Transplants

  18-12-2025 21:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The editors of Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology called the new recommendation from the CDC's vaccine advisors to abandon the universal hepatitis B vaccine birth dose "a fiasco."
  JAMA editors' list of top research for...
  
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• HHS Moves to Halt Gender-Affirming Care for Youth

  18-12-2025 21:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- HHS announced on Thursday a series of actions aimed at eliminating gender-affirming care for youth.
  Proposed rules from CMS would prohibit hospitals from performing "sex-rejecting procedures" for children under 18 as a condition...
  
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• Establishing Connection and Trust With Breast Cancer Patients

  18-12-2025 20:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In "Beyond Diagnosis: Breast Cancer," Cleveland Clinic oncologist Tiffany Onger, MD, and host John Mangels discuss the dynamics of communicating effectively and empathetically with patients facing the challenges of this life...
  
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• How Often Does Dry Needling Lead to a Collapsed Lung?

  18-12-2025 20:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today's collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional's take on the latest viral medical topics.
  Pittsburgh Steelers star T.J. Watt recently made headlines after suffering...
  
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• Adult Congenital Heart Docs Should Be More Involved, Says New Guideline

  18-12-2025 20:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- American guidelines now emphasize a greater role of specialized cardiologists in routine care for people with adult congenital heart disease (ACHD), including initial evaluation in general and counseling for those interested...
  
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• Precision Medicine in Sjogren's Disease

  18-12-2025 19:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At this year's American College of Rheumatology (ACR) annual meeting, researchers highlighted emerging approaches aimed at defining precision medicine in Sjögren's disease, including advances in imaging, molecular endotyping...
  
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• HHS Cancels Grants to Pediatrician Group

  18-12-2025 18:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- HHS terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which has been a prominent critic of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his policies.
  In a statement, the AAP said the work...
  
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• Doctor Found Dead in Freezer; Doc Accused of Sexually Assaulting Boy With Disability

  18-12-2025 17:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Helen Garay Sanchez, an anesthesiologist from Nicaragua, was found dead and possibly naked inside a freezer at a Dollar Tree store in Miami. (Fox 4 News)
  Florida internist Gisell Mansur, MD, has been accused of attacking her...
  
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• Pay Cuts and Unnecessary Visits: How Medicare Is Compromising Cataract Care

  18-12-2025 17:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- With nearly 1% of Americans undergoing cataract surgery each year, the procedure is the most common operation Medicare covers. For many older adults, it's a small miracle: a 15-minute procedure and suddenly the world is in focus...
  
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• Our Brains on ChatGPT

  18-12-2025 16:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- An MIT Media Lab study published this past summer has ignited an unusually intense debate about what happens to the human brain when we use tools like ChatGPT. Depending on what you read, authors interpreted the findings either...
  
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• Teen Drug Use Remains Low, but Survey Finds Small Rise in Heroin and Cocaine Use

  18-12-2025 16:05 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Teen use of alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana remains at record lows, according to national survey results released Wednesday.
  They consume a lot of energy drinks, though. And there are slight, but concerning, increases in heroin...
  
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• UnitedHealth Sued for Wrongful Death; Salad Dressing Recall; Holiday Heart Syndrome

  18-12-2025 15:30 via medpagetoday.com
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  UnitedHealth is facing wrongful death lawsuits related to its refusal to pay for some nursing home residents to go the hospital. (Guardian)
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• Alcohol Consumption and Breast Cancer Risk

  18-12-2025 15:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Multiple studies have linked alcohol consumption to an increased risk of breast cancer, and binge drinking may exacerbate that risk.
  "There's indeed overwhelming evidence that consuming alcohol is associated with an increased...
  
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• Trump Touts Reductions in Drug Prices, Blames Democrats for ACA Premium Increases

  18-12-2025 15:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In one of the shortest speeches of his presidency so far, President Trump on Wednesday evening suggested that he had helped to decrease drug prices by more than 100%, a mathematically impossible feat.
  "I'm doing what no politician...
  
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