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• FDA Green Lights Potential Functional Cure for Chronic Hep B

  20-10-2026 23:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA on Tuesday approved bepirovirsen (Hibsago) as a potential functional cure for adults with chronic hepatitis B, but with no cirrhosis, who are taking antiviral therapy.
  Approval was based on findings from the B-Well 1...
  
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• Doctors Push Back on Claim That El-Sayed Is Not a Physician

  20-10-2026 23:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A group of Michigan doctors is pushing back against attempts by Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan, to characterize his opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, as not being a real doctor because he doesn...
  
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• How Serious Are Jalen Hurts' Blood Clots?

  20-10-2026 23:20 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.
  While deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism are more common...
  
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• Acute Back Pain: Skip the Prescription Painkillers in First Line, Study Suggests

  20-10-2026 22:08 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with acute low back pain (LBP) who got opioids or gabapentinoids as initial therapy faced twice the risk of opioid use disorder (OUD) or overdose compared with other first-line treatments, nationwide Medicaid data showed...
  
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• Napping and Dementia Risk; Autism Paper Concern; First NASCAR Driver With CTE

  20-10-2026 21:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Unintentional napping was associated with a higher incidence of possible or probable dementia, data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study showed. (Journals of Gerontology: Series A)
  Multiple vascular risk factors and...
  
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• Generic of Combination Hormone Therapy Patch Approved for Women

  20-10-2026 20:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA on Monday approved the first generic of the once-weekly estradiol and levonorgestrel transdermal system (Climara Pro) to treat moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms and prevent osteoporosis in women.
  The patch is indicated...
  
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• As a Nurse With Cancer, I Saw the Value of Patient-Facing Materials

  20-10-2026 20:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- When I was diagnosed with head and neck cancer 4 years ago, my radiation oncologist pulled out a copy of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network's (NCCN) treatment recommendations, which oncologists consult to decide what treatment...
  
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• Novel Immune Modulator Promising in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

  20-10-2026 20:08 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- PHOENIX--A novel exosome-based immunomodulatory agent appeared promising in speeding recovery from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a phase IIb trial showed.
  The inhaled therapy substantially increased the proportion...
  
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• Novel Breath Test Might Distinguish Fibrotic Lung Conditions

  20-10-2026 20:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- PHOENIX--Exhaled sphingolipids appeared to distinguish between idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis, potentially offering a path toward noninvasive testing, researchers reported here...
  
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• 1 in 4 Army Men Have Low T; GLP-1 in Menopause; Retatrutide Side Effects on Reddit

  20-10-2026 19:50 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Roughly a quarter of active-duty U.S. Army men had a single morning testosterone concentration under 300 ng/dL, a commonly used cutoff for low testosterone. (JAMA)
  Nearly half of American women ages 40 to 60 reported menopausal...
  
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• Long-Term MINT Data Support Durable Response to Inebilizumab in Myasthenia Gravis

  20-10-2026 18:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- One-year results from the open-label extension of the phase III MINT trial presented at the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine annual meeting showed that the benefits of inebilizumab (Uplizna...
  
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• Can the Midterms Save Vaccines? Don't Count on It.

  20-10-2026 18:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- If the mid-October polls are accurate, the public health community will have many more friends when the new Congress convenes on January 3, 2027. However, even an outcome that brings more pro-vaccine members to Congress will...
  
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• Excellent 10-Year Outcomes After Early Treat-to-Target in Rheumatoid Arthritis

  20-10-2026 17:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Most patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) whose initial treatment used a stringent treat-to-target strategy in a clinical trial were in remission 10 years later, with only modest radiographic progression over that time, researchers...
  
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• TMVR Systems Pulled for Burst Balloons; Cannabis-VTE Paradox; Beets for BP

  20-10-2026 17:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA said Edwards Lifesciences pulled its Commander M delivery systems for Sapien M3 transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR), on account of three reports of balloons bursting during inflation, with one death and one...
  
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• Woman's 3-Year Wait for Intestine Shows the Organ Transplant System's Complexity

  20-10-2026 16:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A car crash destroyed Katherine Screws' small intestine, leaving her unable to eat, dependent on IV nutrition, and often too sick to get out of bed. But the Phoenix woman clung to her hospital's prediction that she could get...
  
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• Scientist Wins Defamation Suit; 1.5M Pounds of Meat Recalled; Measles May Cost Votes

  20-10-2026 15:40 via medpagetoday.com
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  Former MIT biologist David Sabatini, PhD, was awarded $6 million in a sexual harassment defamation suit. (New York Times)
  More than 1.5 million pounds of ready...
  
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• Profits rise for US insurers as benefits for elderly Americans face cuts

  20-10-2026 12:10 via ft.com
  Burden of inflation on seniors is set to worsen as US health insurers raise prices
  
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• Older Americans brace for higher healthcare costs

  20-10-2026 12:10 via ft.com
  Burden of inflation on seniors is set to worsen as US health insurers raise prices
  
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• The battle of the knee replacement robots

  20-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Smith & Nephew is trying to fight back against Stryker’s innovation in orthopaedics with a new artificial joint
  
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