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• Democratic Senators Slam RFK Jr.'s 'Vanity Projects'

  14-09-2026 23:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Democratic Senators called out HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for spending time and resources on his "vanity projects" instead of tackling more pressing public health crises.
  "We are concerned that, instead of addressing...
  
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• Mitch McConnell Returns; Anti-Vax Group Features RFK Jr.; Minnesota Doctors Strike

  15-09-2026 15:33 via medpagetoday.com
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  Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) returned to Capitol Hill on Monday for the first time in 3 months, following a hospitalization after a fall at his home. (CNBC)
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• It’s crunch time for BoneSupport, one of Europe’s most shorted stocks

  15-09-2026 07:00 via ft.com
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• Photodynamic Therapy for the Most Common Skin Cancer Wins Approval

  14-09-2026 22:51 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved aminolevulinic acid hydrochloride 10% (Ameluz) in combination with photodynamic therapy for treating adults with superficial basal cell carcinoma, maker Biofrontera announced on Monday.
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• Abbott Agrees to Settlement Over Closure of Largest U.S. Baby Formula Plant

  14-09-2026 22:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Abbott Laboratories will pay $385 million to resolve claims tied to an investigation of contamination at a baby formula factory in Sturgis, Michigan, the largest in the country, which led to the supply shortages in 2022.
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• ROS1-Targeting Lung Cancer Drug Yields 90% Response Rate

  14-09-2026 22:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Most patients with advanced or metastatic ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who had not previously received a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) had an objective response with zidesamtinib (Jideytro), according to...
  
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• Cancer Drug Shortages Continue With No Immediate Path Toward Relief

  14-09-2026 22:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- All members of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) that responded to an annual survey reported shortages of commonly used generic chemotherapy drugs, topped by ifosfamide, which was in critically short supply at...
  
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• First Therapy to Target Muscle Loss in Spinal Muscular Atrophy Gets FDA Approval

  14-09-2026 21:15 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved apitegromab (Isembyld) injection to treat spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in adults and pediatric patients ages 2 years and older who currently are receiving an SMN2-targeted treatment, the agency announced Friday...
  
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• Brain MRI Surveillance Alone Helps Preserve Cognition in Small Cell Lung Cancer

  14-09-2026 19:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Brain MRI surveillance without prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) led to improved cognitive failure-free survival (CFFS) in patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC), the phase III MAVERICK trial showed.
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• Preserving Muscle During GLP-1 Weight Loss

  14-09-2026 18:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Blockbuster GLP-1 receptor agonists revolutionized obesity management in recent years, driving weight loss of up to 20%.
  This weight loss, however, can carry a notable downside: Studies estimate that 15% to 40% of GLP-1-induced...
  
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• $500 Obamacare Rebates Are Legally Precarious. And Do Nothing for Healthcare Costs.

  14-09-2026 18:31 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration's announcement that it will send $500 "rebate" checks to roughly 1 million Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollees in 30 states ($500 million total) fits a familiar pattern: seeking political advantage through...
  
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• Real-World U.S. Data Back Azithromycin After Unscheduled C-Sections

  14-09-2026 17:54 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Use of adjunctive azithromycin increased among women undergoing unscheduled cesarean deliveries and postpartum infection rates fell after a landmark trial showed the antibiotic's benefits in this setting, according to a difference...
  
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• Mysterious Stomach Rash Had Unusual Source

  14-09-2026 17:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- When a child presented to the emergency department with a brown, lace-like rash on his abdomen, it took a few weeks before physicians pinpointed the likely source.
  Initially, they thought it might be bruising from some kind...
  
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• Trial Confirms IVIG as Useful Therapy for Inflammatory Myopathy

  14-09-2026 17:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with newly diagnosed idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) such as dermatomyositis improved more when they received intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) alongside prednisone than with the steroid alone in a placebo...
  
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• Pennsylvania Officials Report State's 3rd Death Involving Measles

  14-09-2026 16:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A Pennsylvania woman has died from complications associated with measles, the third death in the state this year involving the virus.
  The 40-year-old woman died Saturday, Jefferson County Coroner Greg Furlong said in a Facebook...
  
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• Nurse Accused of Exorcism; Death After 8 Hours of Plastic Surgery; Top Cancer Months

  14-09-2026 15:30 via medpagetoday.com
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  A licensed practical nurse in Pennsylvania allegedly performed an exorcism in 2025 on a nursing home resident she claimed had "demons" in her, according to a grand...
  
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• No Survival Bump in Metastatic NSCLC With Addition of ADC to Immunotherapy

  13-09-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Survival in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) did not improve with the addition of the antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) sacituzumab govitecan (Trodelvy) to immunotherapy, a large randomized trial showed.
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• Significant Survival Boost With Novel ADCs in Relapsed Small-Cell Lung Cancer

  13-09-2026 22:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Two investigational anti-B7-H3 antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) significantly improved survival outcomes in patients with relapsed small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), according to a pair of Chinese trials.
  In the TAISHAN-302 study...
  
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• 'A Real-but-Vanilla Commercial Dispute': What We Heard This Week

  13-09-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- "The underlying case is a real-but-vanilla commercial dispute."--Christopher Robertson, JD, PhD, of Boston University, discussing a medical software company's lawsuit against a former collaborator, who helped launch a rival...
  
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• It's High Time for Operation 'Tick Speed'

  13-09-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The CDC was founded 80 years ago with a single mission: to eradicate malaria from the U.S. By 1946, the year of the CDC's inception, malaria had devastated the nation, causing significant morbidity and mortality for more than...
  
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• GE HealthCare in talks over $1bn deal for maker of cancer scan chemicals

  13-09-2026 12:00 via ft.com
  Acquisition of Sofie Biosciences is second big purchase for medical imaging specialist after split from General Electric
  
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• Local Consolidative Therapy After Dual Immunotherapy Fizzles in Metastatic NSCLC

  12-09-2026 23:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Local consolidative therapy (LCT) after induction treatment with nivolumab (Opdivo) plus ipilimumab (Yervoy) failed to improve survival outcomes in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), including those...
  
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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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