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• CDC Warns Doctors About Spike in Rabies Activity

  11-09-2026 20:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The CDC is warning doctors about an uptick in human exposures to rabid animals, saying it fielded 17% more rabies-related inquiries in the past 2 months than it did during the same stretch last year.
  Reports have included mass...
  
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• Bipartisan Campaign Pledges $100M to Cut U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate in Half

  12-09-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan campaign founded by philanthropists Olivia and Tom Walton, announced a $100 million pledge to make giving birth in the U.S. safer.
  The 5-year commitment aims to cut the maternal...
  
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• Predicting Preeclampsia With a Protein? Gene-Silencing for Cardiomyopathy

  12-09-2026 20:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical...
  
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• The CDC Division I Spent 15 Years Building Is in Peril

  12-09-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The U.S. is in the midst of a chronic disease crisis. The Trump administration's focus on chronic diseases as part of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement is long overdue. More than 40% of U.S. adults now have obesity...
  
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• Parasite Infestation Common in Eyelash Extensions, Study Suggests

  11-09-2026 23:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A study of young women with eyelash extensions showed that almost all had some degree of infestation with Demodex folliculorum, spider-like parasites that feed on dead skin cells.
  Microscopic examination of samples from 25 women...
  
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• Menopausal Hormone Therapy May Ease Severe Mood Symptoms

  11-09-2026 23:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Use of systemic hormone therapy for menopause was associated with improvements in mood symptoms, a retrospective observational study suggested.
  At a mean follow-up of 4.5 months, women starting on hormone therapy showed significantly...
  
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• False and Misleading Claims on Healthcare During the Republican Midterm Convention

  11-09-2026 22:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other Republican officials came together for a 2-day convention this week to rally voters in advance of the midterm elections in November. But in celebrating their accomplishments...
  
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• Boycott of the American Diabetes Association Launched

  11-09-2026 22:50 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) have launched a boycott against the organization, condemning leadership's actions in the aftermath of five researchers being removed by police from its annual meeting in June...
  
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• 'Emergency' Medical Kits Touted by Dr. Drew and Others Draw Criticism

  11-09-2026 22:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Clinicians are raising concerns about "medical emergency kits" containing antibiotics that are being sold for at-home use and promoted by media celebrities like Drew Pinsky, MD, better known as "Dr. Drew."
  One such kit, sold...
  
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• Cancer Diagnosis, Then a Stroke; 9/11 Cancer Deaths; 'Grand Slam' Drug and Price

  11-09-2026 21:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with cancer had an increased risk of ischemic stroke, particularly in the first few months after diagnosis, most notably in patients with lung and pancreatic cancer, according to a large retrospective cohort study. ...
  
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• How Was Menopausal Hormone Therapy Linked to Heart Health?

  11-09-2026 20:37 via medpagetoday.com
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• Where Bright Lights Are Switched on at Night, Heart Troubles Follow

  11-09-2026 19:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The concept that there are cardiovascular harms of nighttime light exposure gained greater credence with a large new study.
  Based on the U.K. Biobank cohort, people with more light exposure (>3 lux) during normal sleep hours...
  
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• Autism Tied to 14-Year Gap in Life Expectancy

  11-09-2026 18:50 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The life expectancy of people with autism spectrum disorder was 14 years shorter than that of other Americans, Medicaid data showed.
  Life expectancy at birth for Medicaid beneficiaries with autism was 64.9 years--5.6 years...
  
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• FDA Says Record-Setting Cyclospora Outbreak Is Over -- Origin Still Unknown

  11-09-2026 18:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The largest Cyclospora food poisoning outbreak in U.S. history is over, health officials said Friday.
  FDA officials said they are confident that all recalled iceberg lettuce related to this specific outbreak is off the market...
  
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• Loss of Follow-Up Predictors in Wet AMD

  11-09-2026 16:51 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A fifth of patients receiving treatment for neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (AMD) stopped care without explanation during long-term follow-up in a large multicenter Canadian cohort.
  Overall, 527 of the 2,556...
  
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• 3,349 Dead in Outbreak; Bouncy Castle Staph Infections; RFK Jr.'s Military Jet

  11-09-2026 15:36 via medpagetoday.com
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  The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record in eastern Congo is rapidly spreading beyond its epicenter, the Africa CDC warned, and a seventh province is now involved...
  
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• The Vaccine Recommendations Are Out. Now Comes the Hard Part.

  11-09-2026 15:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Last week, leading medical societies did something both unusual and indispensable: The American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and Infectious...
  
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• Novel Two-Prong Biologic Shows Promise in Asthma

  10-09-2026 23:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The unique dual inflammation blockade of investigational lunsekimig showed promise for moderate-to-severe asthma in the phase II AIRCULES study.
  Targeting both thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) and interleukin (IL)-13, lunsekimig...
  
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• Study Warns on Venetoclax in Double-Hit Lymphoma

  10-09-2026 22:37 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Adding the BCL2 inhibitor venetoclax (Venclexta) to chemoimmunotherapy led to worse outcomes and excess mortality in patients with newly diagnosed double-hit lymphoma, phase II results from a randomized trial showed.
  Median...
  
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• MS Drugs Differ Most on Relapses, Not Disability, Real-World Study Shows

  10-09-2026 22:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- New multiple sclerosis (MS) patients treated with B-cell-depleting drugs or high-efficacy therapies had lower relapse rates and fewer brain lesions than those treated with oral drugs, but at 2 years, disability outcomes were...
  
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• Preschoolers With Cystic Fibrosis Get Close to Normal on Alyftrek

  10-09-2026 21:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In cystic fibrosis, vanzacaftor-tezacaftor-deutivacaftor (VTD; Alyftrek) showed great potential for modifying the progression of disease in young children, according to the TIMBERLINE study.
  Assessing safety and tolerability...
  
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• Residency Software Developer Sues Doctor Who Helped Launch a Competing Product

  10-09-2026 21:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The graduate medical education (GME) software company Thalamus filed a lawsuit against its competitor Liaison International and ob/gyn leader Maya Hammoud, MD, MBA, over alleged anticompetitive conduct.
  Thalamus brought the...
  
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• Piping Hot Drinks & Esophagus Cancer; Belching Disorder in GERD; Outbreak Sickens 22

  10-09-2026 20:21 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- People who consumed their hot beverages at a "very hot" temperature had a threefold higher risk for squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus compared with those who drank them at a "warm" temperature, an analysis of two large...
  
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• Horse or Newborn Baby? First 'I'm a Doctor' Moment; Clean Water Ruling

  10-09-2026 20:19 via medpagetoday.com
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  Is this a horse or a newborn baby? Pediatrician Gal Barbut, MD, went to the farm to help suss it out.
  Is...
  
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• Making Treatment Decisions in Advanced Prostate Cancer

  10-09-2026 20:08 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In "Beyond Diagnosis: Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer," Cleveland Clinic oncologist Christopher Wee, MD, and host John Mangels discuss how clinicians can guide patients through the initial complexities of a metastatic...
  
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• Trump Promises $500 Obamacare Rebate Checks for 1 Million Enrollees in 30 States

  10-09-2026 20:02 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration is promising $500 rebate checks to an estimated 1 million Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollees across 30 states, who the White House alleged were overcharged by the Biden administration for exchange fees...
  
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• 9/11's Latest Wave of Cancers, 25 Years On

  10-09-2026 18:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- As we mark 25 years since 9/11, it's become clear that the devastation wasn't limited to that day, or even to the first decade after the events.
  Immediately after 9/11, the first wave of respiratory and mental health conditions...
  
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• Cefepime Tied to Higher Mortality Odds vs Other Beta-Lactams

  10-09-2026 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The antibiotic cefepime was linked to higher odds of all-cause mortality compared with other beta-lactams, a systematic review and meta-analysis showed.
  Across 110 randomized trials including over 22,000 patients, there was...
  
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• Grisly Details in Nurse's Fatal Crash; Nurse Punished for 'Difficult Delivery' Wish

  10-09-2026 16:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Grisly details of the deadly crash that killed six people came to light at the first day of the trial for the nurse accused in the wreck, including camera footage of a blood smear from the remains of an unborn baby. (New York...
  
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• Coroner Releases Details of Infants Who Died Amid Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak

  10-09-2026 16:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The two measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania last month involved infants, and the virus itself caused one of the deaths, a Pennsylvania coroner confirmed Wednesday.
  Lancaster County's coroner, Stephen Diamantoni, MD, said...
  
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