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• Leading Psychiatrist Dies; Diagnostic Interviews Unreliable? Remote Work Distress

  10-06-2026 21:02 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Harvard University professor Robert Coles, MD, the psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who championed the cause of children grappling with poverty and segregation, died at age 97. (AP)
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• AMA Adopts Policy Pushing Back on AI Creep in Medicine

  10-06-2026 20:51 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine must always be overseen by physicians, according to a policy adopted by the American Medical Association (AMA) on Tuesday.
  At its annual meeting on Tuesday, AMA's House of Delegates passed...
  
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• The Diabetes Burden Inside and Outside the ADA Conference Hall

  10-06-2026 20:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- I did not see the police officers muscle the five diabetes experts out of the convention center in New Orleans at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting because I was inside the meeting room where the opening session...
  
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• AMA to Fund Studies Comparing Care From Physicians vs NPs, PAs

  10-06-2026 20:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Concerned that unsupervised nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) provide patient care that is not as good or safe as that provided by physicians, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates voted...
  
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• Report: Law Firms Cheated in Filing Claims With NFL's Concussion Settlement Fund

  10-06-2026 20:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The court officials overseeing the NFL's $1 billion settlement fund for concussion-related injuries have barred five law firms from handling any more claims from former players, after finding that they fraudulently steered clients...
  
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• Genetic Risk of Autism, ADHD Decreased as Diagnoses Increased

  10-06-2026 19:12 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Among people with diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), genetic risk has decreased over time, a cohort study from Denmark suggested.
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• Cancer Panelist's Ivermectin Paper; RFK Jr.'s Work Style; Measles Outbreak Genetics

  10-06-2026 18:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, the chair of the President's Cancer Panel, is a co-author on a new paper in Anticancer Research promoting ivermectin and mebendazole as a cancer treatment. The paper is backed by anti-vaccine organizations...
  
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• Tranexamic Acid Makes Noncardiac Surgery Safer

  10-06-2026 17:31 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A hospital policy of giving high transfusion-risk patients tranexamic acid for noncardiac surgery reduced blood transfusions without increasing thromboembolic risk, the TRACTION randomized trial showed.
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• Tailoring Treatment for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer in Older Patients

  10-06-2026 17:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Despite being more commonly diagnosed in women ages 40 or younger, an estimated 10% to 15% of early triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cases are diagnosed in patients over 70.
  Current guidelines recommend the use of adjuvant...
  
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• Optimizing Perioperative Therapy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

  10-06-2026 17:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The treatment landscape for early-stage triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) continues to evolve with evidence from ongoing neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy trials.
  A major development was the KEYNOTE-522 trial that established...
  
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• Medicare Faces Funding Problems in 2033

  10-06-2026 15:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits in 2033, unchanged from last year's estimate, while Social Security's retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, according...
  
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• 115 Dead in Outbreak; House Panel Targets Prior Auth in Medicare; NIAID's New Leader

  10-06-2026 15:27 via medpagetoday.com
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  Authorities in Congo said that confirmed Ebola cases now total 598, including 115 deaths. (Reuters via MSN)
  Police shot and killed a protester in Kenya as hundreds...
  
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