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• FDA Panel on Peptides Will Include Experts Who Promote the Unproven Chemicals

  29-06-2026 23:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- When U.S. health officials meet next month to reconsider a list of controversial peptide drugs, they will hear from a new set of voices: doctors and pharmacists with deep financial ties to the burgeoning industry of unproven...
  
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• Study Suggests No Link Between Prenatal Tylenol and Risks for Autism, ADHD

  29-06-2026 23:16 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A large population-based cohort study in Hong Kong demonstrated that acetaminophen (Tylenol) use during pregnancy was unlikely to increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder or attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD...
  
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• Study Homes In on Simpler Lung Cancer Screening Criteria

  29-06-2026 23:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Lung cancer screening criteria based on smoking duration appeared to be a better method of evaluating lung cancer risk than current guidelines that use pack-years and years since cessation, according to results from a nationally...
  
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• May as Well Get COVID and Flu Shots on the Same Day, Study Says

  29-06-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Getting a COVID and flu shot on the same day was not associated with an increased risk of adverse events, according to a target trial emulation using electronic health data from the VA.
  Compared with influenza vaccination alone...
  
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• Loss of Payment Assistance for AMD Drugs Strains Patients and Ophthalmologists

  29-06-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Loss of copayment assistance for drugs to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) significantly disrupted patient care, including switching to less costly (and perhaps less effective) therapy, reliance on samples...
  
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• JenaValve TAVR Device Promising for LVAD-Associated Aortic Regurgitation

  29-06-2026 21:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- NEW YORK CITY--A transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) system could work as a last resort for patients with left ventricular assist device (LVAD)-associated aortic regurgitation (AR), according to a retrospective...
  
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• New Drug Approved for Thyroid Eye Disease

  29-06-2026 21:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved veligrotug (Lumvoa) for the treatment of thyroid eye disease (TED), regardless of disease activity or duration, Viridian Therapeutics announced on Friday.
  Veligrotug is the first treatment with labeling for...
  
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• A Flu Season Without ACIP: The Question for Fall

  29-06-2026 21:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The U.S. is heading toward the 2026-2027 respiratory virus season without a functioning Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). That is no small disruption. ACIP has guided national policy on influenza vaccination...
  
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• Europe's Record Heat Has Overwhelmed Paris Mortuaries and Left Families in Distress

  29-06-2026 20:31 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- PARIS--Every few minutes, the mortuary owner's phone rings. Since a record-smashing heat wave started taking lives and storage space for bodies in Paris and beyond, the funeral directors and mourning families calling him...
  
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• FDA Expands Risankizumab Label in Psoriatic Disease

  29-06-2026 18:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA expanded the indications for risankizumab (Skyrizi) in plaque psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis to include treatment of children 6 years and older, AbbVie announced.
  An interleukin (IL)-23 antagonist, risankizumab is...
  
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• Could Early Tirzepatide Alter the Course of Type 2 Diabetes?

  29-06-2026 17:57 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the American Diabetes Association annual meeting, 2-year results from the SUPPRESS-EARLY trial showed that initiating tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) early in the course of type 2 diabetes led to substantially higher rates...
  
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• Heart Health in Pregnancy May Tell of Future Risk

  29-06-2026 17:54 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Better cardiovascular health during pregnancy was linked to better cardiometabolic health in the subsequent 7 years, a cohort study found.
  Using a Life's Essential 8 framework modified for pregnancy-specific heart health (mLE8...
  
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• What Caused This Infant's 'Flaking Paint' Skin Rash?

  29-06-2026 17:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A case in India highlights what's long been known as the "disease of the displaced child."
  A 5-month-old boy was brought to an outpatient clinic with a rash resembling "flaking paint" that developed 3 weeks prior, reported Jashir...
  
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• States Seek to Lower Drug Prices by Targeting Pharmacy Benefit Managers

  29-06-2026 16:58 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- As consumers worry about medication costs, states are trying to lower drug prices by reining in big companies that oversee prescription coverage for health insurers.
  Some of those companies, called pharmacy benefit managers...
  
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• 'Tiniest Penis' Fundraiser; Flu Vaccine Maker Investigated; FDA Rejects Gout Drug

  29-06-2026 15:24 via medpagetoday.com
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  A North Carolina man who claims his 0.38-inch penis is the world's smallest started a fundraiser for enlargement surgery. (The Guardian)
  Michigan parents are facing...
  
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• Pulsed Field Ablation Tied to Fewer LAA Occluder Leaks

  29-06-2026 14:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- NEW YORK CITY--The persistent peridevice leaks in percutaneous left atrial appendage (LAA) closure may be addressed by applying pulsed field ablation (PFA) during the procedure, the STUN-AF study suggested.
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