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• ED Docs Being Replaced by Private Equity-Owned Firm Call It a 'Kick in the Teeth'

  15-06-2026 19:16 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Emergency medicine physicians under contract with Valley Health in Winchester, Virginia, said they were blindsided by the news that the health system planned to end their contract and partner with a private-equity owned practice...
  
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• AAP Disputes Kennedy's Claim That Vaccine Panel Can't Meet Ahead of Flu Season

  16-06-2026 21:54 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) pushed back on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claims that the CDC's vaccine panel is unable to meet due to a recent ruling in a lawsuit challenging changes to the U.S. childhood...
  
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• Menopause Experts Release Guidance on Non-Hormone Therapy for Hot Flashes

  16-06-2026 21:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO--A multidisciplinary group of menopause experts developed new comorbidity-specific guidance on non-hormone therapy for moderate-to-severe vasomotor symptoms.
  For patients whose primary menopausal symptoms are hot...
  
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• Alzheimer's and Psilocybin; Migraine and Driving; What New MS Criteria Reveal

  16-06-2026 21:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- An older Japanese American woman with advanced Alzheimer's disease experienced transient improvements in multiple domains after taking psilocybin-containing mushrooms, according to a case report. (Frontiers in Neuroscience)...
  
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• The Refill Encounter: Managing Medications the Modern Way

  16-06-2026 21:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- I vividly remember my first day in outpatient clinic as an intern more than 30 years ago, when my patient told me they needed refills for all their medications. In his incredibly thick paper chart was a list of medications, handwritten...
  
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• PAs in Cardiology; Increased Risks With Gout; Bad News for Female Heart Recipients

  16-06-2026 20:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In the U.K., resident doctors in cardiology claimed it was not uncommon to observe physician assistants (PAs) performing actions outside of their scope of practice, a survey found. (Heart)
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• FDA Expands OTC Options for Opioid Overdose Reversal

  16-06-2026 20:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved another opioid overdose reversal product for over-the-counter (OTC) use, the agency announced on Tuesday.
  The 4-mg intranasal naloxone hydrochloride (Rextovy) nasal spray joins other similar nonprescription...
  
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• Medicare's GLP-1 Program Looms; Chemicals in Breast Milk; Acromegaly Drug Rejected

  16-06-2026 20:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A massive wave of new prescriptions for GLP-1 receptor agonists is expected following the July launch of a Medicare pilot program that offers the drugs for weight loss for a flat $50 monthly copay. (Axios)
  Meanwhile, nearly...
  
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• Balloon-Expandable TAVR Has Struggles Evident at 10-Year Follow-Up

  16-06-2026 19:59 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Ten-year results were disappointing for older-generation Sapien transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), with a newer iteration providing some reassurance on deaths and aortic valve reinterventions.
  In the PARTNER 2A randomized...
  
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• Maintenance Regimens Expand in HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer

  16-06-2026 19:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, updated HER2CLIMB-05 findings on the addition of tucatinib (Tukysa) to first-line maintenance therapy with trastuzumab (Herceptin) and pertuzumab (Perjeta) added to...
  
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• Family Medicine Residency Spots in Seattle Area Axed

  16-06-2026 19:38 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Two family medicine residency programs in the Seattle-Tacoma area are folding or downsizing, raising concerns about physician shortages in already underserved areas.
  Tacoma's Community Health Care is shuttering its family medicine...
  
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• Hazardous Cheese in Our Golden Age of Food

  16-06-2026 19:13 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Looking back at the cheeses I ate as a kid, I mainly remember bright orange cheddar, monterey jack, and powdery parmesan from a metallic green cylindrical can. And, at parties hosted by my grandparents, rubbery string cheese...
  
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• U.S. Infant Mortality Rate Falls to All-Time Low, but Trails Other Wealthy Nations

  16-06-2026 17:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Infant mortality in the U.S. dropped to a new all-time low in 2025, according to preliminary government data.
  There were slightly fewer than 5.4 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2025, according to the CDC.
  While that...
  
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• Studies Raise New Questions in HR-Positive, HER2-Negative Breast Cancer

  16-06-2026 17:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Several studies presented at this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting highlighted emerging strategies for hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, including early...
  
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• Moving T-DXd Into Earlier HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Care

  16-06-2026 16:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, results from the DESTINY-Breast11 trial showed higher pathologic complete response (pCR) rates with a trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd; Enhertu)-based neoadjuvant...
  
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• NEJM Editors Slam Trump Administration; Alfredo Sauce Recall; Ebola Doc Comes Home

  16-06-2026 15:34 via medpagetoday.com
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  The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) editorial board warned that the Office of Management and Budget's proposed changes to the HHS grant process would further...
  
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• Palantir NHS claims rely on just a few hospitals

  16-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Data shows some trusts have delivered fewer operations since adopting the US company’s technology
  
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• Claims of Palantir improvement in NHS driven by a handful of hospitals

  16-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Data shows some trusts have delivered fewer operations since adopting the US company’s technology
  
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• Study Looks at Risk for Dementia After Shingles Vaccine in High-Risk Group

  15-06-2026 23:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Older adults at higher risk for dementia were less likely to have a dementia diagnosis if they received a herpes zoster (shingles) shot, a cohort study using target trial emulation showed.
  Among 500,000 people in skilled-nursing...
  
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• Timely 'Nudges' Can Help Encourage More End-of-Life Conversations in Cancer

  15-06-2026 23:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Reminders, or "nudges," to both oncology clinicians and patients led to a significant increase in difficult conversations about poor-prognosis cancers, a large randomized study showed.
  Involving more than 1,000 patients and...
  
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• In High-Risk B-Cell ALL, Swapping Out Chemo for Blinatumomab Improves Outcomes

  15-06-2026 22:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Replacing two high-dose chemotherapy courses with blinatumomab (Blincyto) significantly improved event-free survival (EFS) in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed high-risk B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), an interim...
  
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• Congo Reports Large Daily Jump in Ebola Cases a Month After Outbreak Was Declared

  15-06-2026 21:59 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- KINSHASA, Congo--Congolese authorities have reported one of the highest daily increases in Ebola cases in the month-old outbreak as the virus spreads quickly in a remote region whose shifting population challenges efforts...
  
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• New Type of Maggots Cleared by FDA as Medical Treatment

  15-06-2026 21:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA cleared medical-grade Australian sheep blowfly (Lucilia cuprina) larvae in what maker Cuprina Holdings believes marks the first debridement product to use this particular species.
  Dubbed Medifly Maggots, the product...
  
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• Newborn Girls Appear Less Likely to Get Vitamin K, Hepatitis B Shots

  15-06-2026 20:15 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Newborn girls were less likely to receive vitamin K prophylaxis and hepatitis B vaccination than newborn boys, according to a cohort study involving more than 93,000 babies.
  Female sex was associated with non-receipt of vitamin...
  
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• Diabetes Patients on Semaglutide Had Fewer Fractures, Study Finds

  15-06-2026 19:57 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO--The GLP-1 receptor agonist semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) was associated with a 15% lower risk for fractures in adults with type 2 diabetes, a review of medical records found.
  In a matched analysis involving more...
  
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• Novel Hereditary Angioedema Treatments on the Horizon

  15-06-2026 19:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Novel hereditary angioedema (HAE) drugs aim to push treatment and prevention toward more convenient, long-acting agents and gene-editing cures by targeting plasma kallikrein and the contact activation cascade to prevent uncontrolled...
  
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• 'The Pitt' Finale Was 2 Months Ago. We Can't Stop Thinking About This Scene.

  15-06-2026 19:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Watching season two of "The Pitt," we found ourselves pulled into one of the show's quieter moments, when two exhausted trainees sat outside the ambulance bay entrance to the emergency department at the end of a brutal shift...
  
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• COVID Shots Tied to Lower Risks of Heart Attack, Cardiac Death

  15-06-2026 18:03 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- COVID-19 vaccines were associated with a lower risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), in addition to other outcomes, particularly among older adults, according to three studies.
  Among over 1 million veterans who...
  
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• What to Know About Alpha-Gal Syndrome, the Life-Threatening, Tick-Borne Meat Allergy

  15-06-2026 17:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- It's common knowledge that ticks can spread infections that cause serious illnesses, including Lyme disease. Now health officials are trying to raise awareness of a lesser-known problem: alpha-gal syndrome, a life-threatening...
  
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• Teplizumab Approval Expands to Early Type 1 Diabetes

  15-06-2026 16:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA expanded the approval of teplizumab (Tzield) to include pediatric patients 8 years and older who have recently been diagnosed with stage 3 type 1 diabetes, the clinical stage where hyperglycemia symptoms emerge and insulin...
  
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