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• Congress Mulls Ways to Fix the Surprise Billing Law

  27-10-2026 22:41 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Although most observers agree that the No Surprises Act did fix one problem--nixing unexpected bills for out-of-network care--lawmakers are still trying to fix other problems caused by the law.
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• Fenebrutinib May Curb Chronic Active Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis

  27-10-2026 22:21 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The investigational Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor fenebrutinib may curb chronic active lesions in multiple sclerosis (MS), data from phase III trials suggested.
  Two MRI biomarkers in MS are slowly expanding lesions...
  
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• Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate Just Misses Its Mark in Late-Stage Trial

  27-10-2026 22:12 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON--An investigational Lyme disease vaccine covering six serotypes across four Borrelia species had a vaccine efficacy (VE) rate of over 70%, but it just missed a preset noninferiority threshold, a placebo-controlled...
  
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• AI May Help Detect Rare Sperm in Men With Azoospermia

  27-10-2026 21:30 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- BALTIMORE--An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool could be a last resort for couples wanting to conceive a biological child who had been told they have no sperm, researchers said.
  The Sperm Tracking and Recovery (STAR...
  
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• RFK Jr.'s Claim That Arabs 'Don't Produce Science' Meets a Nobel Prize Reality Check

  27-10-2026 21:24 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s broad assertions about Arab contributions to humanity's scientific and literary discoveries at a Republican campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, have drawn...
  
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• Novel HDAC Inhibitor Hits Main Goal in Unresectable Melanoma Trial

  27-10-2026 20:34 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Progression-free survival (PFS) in unresectable melanoma improved significantly with the addition of an investigational histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor to immunotherapy, a randomized trial showed.
  Median PFS increased from...
  
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• Certain Myasthenia Gravis Patients May Need More Time to Respond to Efgartigimod

  27-10-2026 20:17 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Intravenous efgartigimod (Vyvgart) continued to show efficacy and safety in patients with generalized myasthenia gravis who did not have detectable anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibodies, according to open-label data from...
  
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• Bid to Block GLP-1 Ads Denied; First Weekly Insulin for T2D in Kids; Fertility Fell

  27-10-2026 19:45 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- A U.S. judge rejected Novo Nordisk's request to temporarily block Eli Lilly from running advertisements claiming its weight-loss and diabetes drugs are more powerful. (Reuters via AOL)
  The FDA expanded the approval for insulin...
  
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• Head Shape and Alzheimer's; Prenatal Choline and Kids' IQ; Aspirin and Dementia

  27-10-2026 19:37 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Can head shape influence Alzheimer's disease pathology? (Alzheimer's & Dementia)
  The newly launched AD-Smart Alzheimer's disease platform trial will test repurposed drugs in the U.K., starting with the diabetes drug metformin...
  
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• Live Webinar October 29: Should We Let Robots Be Doctors?

  27-10-2026 18:57 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- While some major medical organizations like the American Medical Association (AMA) have adopted policies relegating artificial intelligence (AI) to an assistive rather than autonomous role in healthcare, bioethicist and oncologist...
  
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• Cardiologist-Prime Minister? LDL Pill Eyed for Diabetes; Second Tricuspid TEER OK'd

  27-10-2026 18:52 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Cardiologist Ilija Srdanović, MD, PhD, is among the student-backed leaders in Serbia that won the country's snap parliamentary election. Some expect him to be the new prime minister. (Nacionale)
  The CETP inhibitor obicetrapib...
  
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• Trial Results Show 'Something We Have Not Seen for Years' in Osteosarcoma

  27-10-2026 17:53 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The investigational antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) risvutatug rezetecan (Ris-Rez) significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with relapsed or refractory osteosarcoma, the phase III ARTEMIS-011 trial from...
  
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• ADA Says Protest 'Threat' Heightened Security Concerns at Meeting

  27-10-2026 17:04 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- In a reversal of its original findings, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) said members who were kicked out of its annual meeting in June did not violate its code of conduct.
  Instead, the final report of its governance...
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes: Master of Deception or Victim of Coercion?

  27-10-2026 16:13 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- I wasn't planning to see Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's movie about Elizabeth Holmes, "You Can See Everything." What truth would I learn? Holmes has every reason to try to rehabilitate her image, and I'm used to working...
  
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• Pneumococcal Vaccine Candidate Targeting 25 Serotypes Advances

  27-10-2026 15:49 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON--A pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) covering 25 serotypes was safe and generated immune responses among infants that were comparable to the current 20-valent vaccine (Prevnar 20), a phase II trial showed....
  
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• Congo's Ebola Outbreak Tops 10,000 Cases as Authorities Race to Slow the Spread

  27-10-2026 15:39 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The fast-moving Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 10,000 confirmed cases, government data showed Tuesday, as health authorities race to slow the spread of the disease in multiple African countries.
  It is the fastest-growing...
  
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• Targeted Doublet Improves Survival in MET-Positive Progressive Lung Cancer

  27-10-2026 15:25 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with MET-altered advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) lived significantly longer with a targeted combination after progression on standard-of-care osimertinib (Tagrisso), a large randomized trial showed.
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• 'The Pitt' Actor Named Sexiest Man; CDC Deputy Director Exits; Vaccine Limbo

  27-10-2026 14:39 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
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  Actor Noah Wyle, who played an emergency department physician in "The Pitt" and "ER," was named People's Sexiest Man Alive.
  Jennifer Shuford, MD, MPH, the CDC's...
  
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• Menopausal Hormone Therapy May Boost GLP-1 Weight Loss

  27-10-2026 13:35 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Menopausal women taking hormone therapy in addition to a GLP-1 medication may see greater and sustained weight loss, a retrospective cohort study suggested.
  Women taking semaglutide (Wegovy) and menopausal hormone therapy had...
  
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