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• Will RFK Jr. Face Impeachment Under New Congress?

  06-11-2026 23:38 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- On Friday, as some public health groups continued to call for the impeachment of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kennedy's fate remained up in the air following the Democrats' overwhelming sweep in the congressional midterms...
  
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• Gene Therapy Under Scrutiny After Nine Tumor Reports

  06-11-2026 23:27 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Drugmaker Novartis acknowledged Thursday that there have been nine reports of tumors in children treated with its gene therapy onasemnogene abeparvovec (Zolgensma) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
  Two of the tumor cases were...
  
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• FDA Investigating Serious Malignancy Risk Linked to Gene Therapy

  06-11-2026 23:27 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA is investigating a serious risk of malignancy in patients treated with onasemnogene abeparvovec (Zolgensma) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the agency said Friday.
  The announcement came soon after drugmaker Novartis...
  
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• New Trials Back Quickly Approved Drugs for Primary Biliary Cholangitis

  06-11-2026 23:16 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Treatment with both elafibranor (Iqirvo) and seladelpar (Livdelzi) led to alkaline phosphatase (ALP) normalization in the vast majority of patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) who had elevated ALP levels after an incomplete...
  
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• Hawaii Doctors May Soon Start Prescribing Fresh Food

  06-11-2026 22:57 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- More than 100,000 Hawaii residents who qualify for Medicaid may soon find their doctors prescribing them fresh food as medicine.
  The script could be for fresh fruit and vegetables, even ahi, beef, chicken, and eggs. The federally...
  
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• Oral Food Challenge Clears Many Infants Thought to Have Peanut Allergy

  06-11-2026 21:58 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- More than a third of infants thought to be allergic to peanuts were not actually allergic, an oral food challenge study showed.
  With the aim of treating peanut allergy among babies who reacted to peanut before 1 year of age...
  
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• AHA to Put Aggressive BP Control in the Hot Seat for SPRINT-Excluded Groups

  06-11-2026 21:36 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- At this weekend's American Heart Association (AHA) meeting, intensive blood pressure (BP) lowering and other mainstays in cardiovascular medicine have a lot to prove, as do innovations related to GLP-1 receptor agonists and artificial...
  
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• Here's How the Blue Tsunami Will Turn the Healthcare Tide

  06-11-2026 21:17 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Hubris played such a central role in the 2026 midterm election that the ancient Greeks would surely have loved it.
  The midterms featured a mortal who promised to avoid war, lower prices, expel immigrants who had committed crimes...
  
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• Lumateperone Brings Rapid Relief in Bipolar Mania

  06-11-2026 21:07 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Lumateperone (Caplyta) rapidly improved symptoms of acute mania associated with bipolar I disorder, a phase III trial showed.
  Among 351 patients with or without mixed features, lumateperone demonstrated superiority over placebo...
  
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• Hormone Therapy and Cancer Risk; Oncology Pay Cut; Mammograms Post-Double Mastectomy

  06-11-2026 20:25 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Doctors are warning not to overlook the small increase in breast cancer risk associated with certain hormonal therapies for treating menopause symptoms. (New York Times)
  In related news, the FDA removed boxed warnings about...
  
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• What Was Linked to Aggressive Breast Cancer?

  06-11-2026 19:31 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
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• Booze, Tobacco Together in Pregnancy May Worsen Baby's Facial Abnormalities

  06-11-2026 18:32 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Prenatal exposure to both alcohol and tobacco smoke impacted the baby's facial development more than either alone, a longitudinal study from South Africa showed.
  Three-dimensional facial scans at 1 month and 1 year of age showed...
  
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• 'ER' and 'The Pitt' Similar Enough for Lawsuit to Move Forward, Appeals Court Says

  06-11-2026 18:09 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- A California appeals court has found that "ER" and "The Pitt" have enough similarity that a lawsuit brought by the widow and estate of "ER" creator Michael Crichton alleging "The Pitt" is an unauthorized reboot can move forward...
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes Documentary: Doctors Weigh In

  06-11-2026 17:55 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (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 insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories...
  
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• Poop Lettuce, SINGLE-AF: The 2026 MedPage Today Culture Awards

  06-11-2026 17:45 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- We've nominated medicine's biggest culture makers and moments of 2026. It's your turn to vote.
  
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• FDA Approves Dual-Targeted Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer

  06-11-2026 16:49 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA granted accelerated approval to subcutaneous amivantamab and hyaluronidase (Rybrevant Faspro) for the treatment of adults with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
  The approved indication is...
  
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• Positive Antinuclear Antibody Test? This Tool Helps Show What That Means.

  06-11-2026 16:05 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- For patients ultimately determined to have an autoimmune disease following a positive antinuclear antibody (ANA) test, a digital aid made what is often a diagnostic odyssey more like a trip to the corner store, results of a randomized...
  
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• RFK Jr. Ally Guilty of Rape; SAMHSA Worker Dies of Suicide; Conflicts at USPSTF

  06-11-2026 15:29 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
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  Actor Russell Brand, an ally of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, was found guilty of rape and multiple...
  
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