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• A Lyme Disease State of Mind

  02-07-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Recently, I've been in a Lyme state of mind.
  For one thing, as spring turns to summer, I can't help remembering the mysterious symptoms that, in 1975, roiled three small towns in Connecticut. They eventually led to an understanding...
  
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• Doc's Massage Parlor Plea Deal; Psychiatrist Sues Kaiser; NP Gets 10 Years

  02-07-2026 17:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Peter O'Donnell, MD, a family physician in Maine who was accused of running a massage parlor as a front for prostitution, has pleaded guilty to engaging a prostitute in exchange for having charges of sex trafficking dismissed...
  
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• New Evidence Links Progestogen Contraceptives to Brain Cancer Risk

  02-07-2026 17:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Women who used progestogen contraceptives had a significantly increased risk of meningioma, including oral and injectable progestogen formulations and intrauterine devices (IUDs), a large Danish study showed.
  Eight of the 12...
  
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• Why Danny Glover Is Speaking Publicly About His Alzheimer's Disease

  02-07-2026 17:15 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Actor and activist Danny Glover revealed this week that he has Alzheimer's disease. The four-time Emmy Award nominee, who is 79, said he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease 3 years ago.
  "I'm still not accepting in my mind...
  
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• What Misinformation Looks Like in the ICU

  02-07-2026 17:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Rigid, febrile, shaking with spasms--that is how he reached the ICU, and nothing in his chart explained it. The team ran through the possible causes: sepsis, thyroid storm, and a drug reaction. None of them fit.
  What the...
  
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• Shared Versus Private Offices for Docs: What Works Best?

  02-07-2026 16:49 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- William Fox, MD, has had an independent practice in Charlottesville, Virginia, for 23 years, where he rented medical space with two other physicians.
  At their first location, the group was responsible for building out the entire...
  
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• McConnell Had a Cardiac Arrest? U.S. Deaths Fall; Bad News for Cannibals

  02-07-2026 15:34 via medpagetoday.com
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  Paramedics on June 14 responded to a "cardiac arrest" for an unconscious person at the home of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the day McConnell was hospitalized for...
  
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• Older Folks With Obesity Now Often Metabolically Similar to Those With Normal BMI

  02-07-2026 00:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For middle-age and older people, obesity was no longer associated with the same cardiovascular burden as before--though it was a different story for young adults, according to a large longitudinal multi-country study.
  Across...
  
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• Amnioinfusions Mitigate Lethal Lung Hypoplasia From Fetal Kidney Failure

  01-07-2026 23:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Over a third of infants born following pregnancies with anhydramnios due to fetal kidney failure were able to avoid death from underdeveloped lungs with serial amnioinfusions during pregnancy, the nonrandomized RAFT study showed...
  
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• Off-Label Drug Proves Its Mettle in Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis

  01-07-2026 23:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Off-label rituximab was noninferior to ocrelizumab (Ocrevus) in people with newly diagnosed relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) and recent disease activity, the phase III OVERLORD-MS trial showed.
  At 2 years, the estimated probability...
  
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• Trump Administration Suspends Funding for New York's Medicaid Fraud Unit

  01-07-2026 23:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration on Tuesday said it would freeze federal funding for New York's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), a state agency responsible for investigating and prosecuting fraud in the safety-net government healthcare...
  
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• Greater Willingness to Seek Help May Drive Rise in Mental Health Visits

  01-07-2026 23:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A lower threshold for seeking medical help and/or changes in diagnostic practice may be contributing to the increase in primary care consultations for mental health issues among young people, instead of a true increase in worsening...
  
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• FDA Scientists Raise Peptide Concerns Ahead of Committee Meeting

  01-07-2026 23:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Undercutting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent push to expand access to peptides, FDA career scientists determined there isn't adequate evidence to support any of the ones under consideration for production by compounding...
  
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• Psychiatric Risk Transmission; Phase III Win, Flop for Anxiety; 10K Hotel Overdoses

  01-07-2026 21:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Data from Finland lent support to the idea that risk for mental health disorders can be transmitted among adolescents. (JAMA Psychiatry)
  Actor and activist Danny Glover, best known for starring as an easygoing police officer...
  
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• Why Hasn't Advanced MRI Become Standard Brain Tumor Care?

  01-07-2026 20:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Following the American Society of Neuroradiology meeting, MedPage Today convened three leaders in neuro-oncology and brain tumor imaging for a virtual roundtable discussion on the evolving role of advanced MRI in brain tumor...
  
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• More Early Breast Cancer Patients Could Be Spared Chemo, Trial Suggests

  01-07-2026 20:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, results from the OPTIMA trial suggested that genomic testing may help identify additional patients with hormone receptor-positive/HER2-negative early breast cancer...
  
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• Emails Reveal How RFK Jr. Empowered a Lone CDC Scientist

  01-07-2026 20:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A rank-and-file CDC scientist felt secure enough to make demands of agency leaders and criticize their work, sometimes copying the HHS secretary on correspondence, a recently released trove of CDC emails shows.
  In several emails...
  
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• Orca-T Approved to Prevent GVHD After Stem Cell Transplant for Blood Cancers

  01-07-2026 20:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved an allogeneic regulatory T cell-based immunotherapy product with hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) and T cells (Tregzi) to prevent serious complications of stem cell transplants for hematologic...
  
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• Where the World Cup, Homelessness, and the ED Meet

  01-07-2026 19:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- American infrastructure has been forced to step up with the arrival of tourists for the FIFA World Cup. From the creation of more robust security plans to the expansion of travel networks, the nation has placed significant effort...
  
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• Measuring Tardive Dyskinesia Symptoms With the AIMS

  01-07-2026 19:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At each clinical visit, patients on antipsychotics should be assessed for tardive dyskinesia (TD) and abnormal involuntary movements, according to American Psychiatric Association (APA) guidelines.
  For decades, the Abnormal...
  
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• Assistants Outearn Surgeons; More Political Control at CDC? Flood of Shoddy Papers

  01-07-2026 17:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Hospitals that don't contract with Medicare aren't beholden to federal regulations that guarantee treatment for all-comers. One of those hospitals is Nutex Health in New Mexico. The facility has also allegedly exploited a loophole...
  
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• Coffee Lovers and Their Livers Can Celebrate, Study Suggests

  01-07-2026 17:49 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Coffee drinking was associated with lower risks of serious liver disease and related mortality, with the more one consumes the better, data from the U.K. Biobank suggested.
  Over a median 13-year follow-up, drinking five or more...
  
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• GLP-1s Linked to Systemic Clinical Risk Reduction in Hidradenitis Suppurativa

  01-07-2026 17:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with hidradenitis suppurative (HS) and a history of GLP-1 receptor agonist use for diabetes or obesity had significantly lower rates of multiple cardiovascular events and mortality, a large retrospective cohort study...
  
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• Recent Developments in Prostate Cancer

  01-07-2026 16:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Spurred by recognition of different disease subtypes, prostate cancer treatment continues to evolve. So far this year, the evolution has included practice-changing and incremental improvements in various aspects of clinical management...
  
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• Trump Actions Signal Move Toward Institutionalizing Disabled People, Advocates Warn

  01-07-2026 16:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities--rights that some fear could be losing ground under the Trump administration.
  Last month, the Education...
  
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• 360 Dead in Outbreak; McConnell Still Hospitalized? FDA Rejects Kidney Disease Drug

  01-07-2026 15:41 via medpagetoday.com
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  A total of 1,274 cases and 360 deaths have been confirmed in Congo's Ebola outbreak, according to the CDC.
  Meanwhile, Ugandan officials reported an outbreak of...
  
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• Cheerleading Head Injuries Declined After 2012 Rule Change

  01-07-2026 06:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Head injuries among cheerleaders declined after a 2012 rule change that banned the "double down" twisting dismount in stunts performed in high school and lower-level grades, a study showed.
  From 2004 to 2012, concussions or...
  
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• Vitamin A Linked to Better Lung Function in Kids, Adults

  01-07-2026 00:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Higher vitamin A levels were linked to better lung function in adults and children, with the benefit seen with vitamin D among adults as well, a study showed.
  Higher vitamin A levels correlated with significantly higher forced...
  
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• Odds of Four HPV-Linked Cancers Higher in Transplant Recipients, HIV Patients

  30-06-2026 23:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- People with HIV and solid organ transplant recipients were significantly more likely to develop human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated anal, penile, vulvar, and cervical cancers, according to a Swedish retrospective case-control...
  
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• House Passes Bill to Ease Quality Reporting Requirements for Medicare ACOs

  30-06-2026 23:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Physician practices participating in a Medicare accountable care organization (ACO) may have an easier time submitting quality data to Medicare if a bill passed Monday by the House becomes law.
  H.R. 5347, the Health Care Efficiency...
  
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