Medical Industry news

• Trial Supports New Method for Easing IUD Insertion Pain

  18-09-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Intrauterine instillation of the anesthetic mepivacaine significantly reduced pain during intrauterine device (IUD) insertion, a Swedish randomized trial showed.
  Mean pain score during IUD placement was 43.8 mm on a visual analog...
  
  Read more

• Trump Announces All 50 States Joining Medicaid Drug Pricing Model

  18-09-2026 22:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- President Trump announced Friday that all 50 states will join in on a program set to provide "most favored nation" (MFN) pricing to some drugs within the Medicaid program, bringing the net price of selected drugs down to prices...
  
  Read more

• Holdout Juror Didn't Doubt Former Nurse Clancy Was Responsible for Killing Her Kids

  18-09-2026 21:37 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The lone juror who wanted to convict Lindsay Clancy of murder for killing her three children said he was certain of her guilt, but that other jurors wouldn't listen to him, according to a statement released by his lawyer Friday...
  
  Read more

• What Injectable Did the FDA Warn About?

  18-09-2026 21:05 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Study 'Challenges' Standard of Prolonged Antibiotics for Orthopedic Infections

  18-09-2026 20:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Giving no more than a week's worth of systemic antibiotics was as effective as a standard multi-week course for preventing treatment failure in patients who underwent surgery for orthopedic infection paired with implant of a...
  
  Read more

• RFK Jr. Eyes Wireless, RF Radiation; Cancer by the Month; AI for Cancer Symptoms

  18-09-2026 19:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- As a first step toward possible health warnings about cell phones, Wi-Fi, and other technologies, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has asked for public feedback on effects of electromagnetic fields, radiofrequency radiation...
  
  Read more

• Wegovy Benefits Heart Disease Patients Regardless of Frailty

  18-09-2026 18:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Frailty did not appear to prevent adults with cardiovascular disease and overweight or obesity from reaping the benefits of semaglutide (Wegovy), a secondary analysis of SELECT trial data indicated.
  By week 104, semaglutide...
  
  Read more

• Doc Running for Congress Calls RFK Jr. 'Dangerous and Incompetent'

  18-09-2026 17:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- As part of MedPage Today's series on healthcare clinicians running for office, Washington Editor Joyce Frieden spoke with Richard Pan, MD, MPH, a pediatrician and former state senator who is running as a Democrat for a U.S. House...
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• ADA Boycott Follows Meeting Scandal; Lawsuits Fly in Residency Application Space

  18-09-2026 17:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The following is a transcript of the podcast episode:
  Rachael Robertson: Hey everybody! Welcome to MedPod Today, the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insights into the week's biggest healthcare stories...
  
  Read more

• New Cochrane Review: Cardiac Rehab Should Be an Easy Yes for Way More People

  18-09-2026 16:49 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The benefits of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in coronary heart disease (CHD) held up better than ever in an updated Cochrane review, and they looked increasingly applicable to more people and exercise programs.
  A meta-analysis...
  
  Read more

• A New Way to Prevent Ovarian Cancer Is Emerging. But It's Often Out of Reach.

  18-09-2026 15:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A consequential shift in our understanding of ovarian cancer has gone mainstream. Many of the deadliest cancers we call ovarian may actually begin in the fallopian tubes, and removing those tubes may dramatically reduce future...
  
  Read more

• 48 Deaths Linked to Local Brew; Lancet Staff Strike; RFK Jr. Targets 5G Radiation

  18-09-2026 15:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription.
  At least 48 people in southern Nigeria have died and around 100 others are receiving treatment after consuming a locally brewed alcoholic concoction suspected to...
  
  Read more

• Study Flags RSV Deaths in Kids Not Eligible for Protection

  18-09-2026 14:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Children and adolescents ineligible for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) immunization accounted for a substantial proportion of the RSV-associated intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and deaths in recent years, a U.S. cohort...
  
  Read more

• NHS executive lobbied data watchdog to rewrite criticism before Palantir deal

  18-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Controversial US tech group won the contract to build the Federated Data Platform for health service three months later
  
  Read more

• Medical AI has a proof problem

  18-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The technology’s advances have not yet translated into big improvements in real-life care
  
  Read more

Follow @Medical_IndusUK on Twitter!