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• Explosive Diarrhea's Nemesis; On Call at Ariana Grande Concert; RN's Netflix Trailer

  09-07-2026 20:10 via medpagetoday.com
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  One trick explosive diarrhea doesn't want you to know? Clean your produce. The Illinois Department of Public...
  
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• HHS Moves to Create List of COVID Vaccine Injuries

  09-07-2026 21:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- HHS is paving the way to create an injury table for COVID countermeasures--such as vaccines--under the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP).
  The Health Resources and Services Administration posted a notice...
  
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• I Survived an Earthquake. Here's What to Know Following Venezuela's Disaster.

  09-07-2026 21:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Following the June 24 twin earthquakes, magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, that struck northern Venezuela 39 seconds apart, the death toll now stands above 3,500 people, with tens of thousands more missing. Some 8.6 million people were...
  
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• Liver Transplant Studies Retracted Over Organ Harvesting Concerns

  09-07-2026 21:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Two Chinese studies related to liver transplantation published more than a decade ago in the Journal of Hepatology were retracted by the journal's editors.
  The editors said concerns were raised that the transplants described...
  
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• Is Erling Haaland's 6,000-Calorie Diet Healthy?

  09-07-2026 20:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today's collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional's take on the latest viral medical topics.
  Norway's World Cup star Erling Braut Haaland reportedly consumes 6...
  
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• Meet the Doctor for the New York Knicks

  09-07-2026 20:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Welcome to "Medical Mavericks," a series from MedPage Today featuring interviews with healthcare professionals working in unconventional fields of health and medicine.
  In the wake of the New York Knicks winning the National...
  
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• Common Drugs Basically Flunk for Long COVID Fatigue

  09-07-2026 19:49 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- An anti-inflammatory pill and the combination of a heartburn drug and an antihistamine marginally improved severe long COVID fatigue over usual care, and only in the short-term, according to an open-label randomized trial from...
  
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• How Real-World Data on Bispecifics Could Shape Follicular Lymphoma Practice

  09-07-2026 19:21 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Real-world data presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting reinforced the effectiveness and safety of bispecific antibodies for relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma, including in patients...
  
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• Rubbing Alcohol Injection Suit; Doc Gets 20 Years; Research Beagle Raid Charges

  09-07-2026 18:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Oregon podiatrist Colin Mizuo, DPM, allegedly injected rubbing alcohol instead of an anesthetic as he removed a woman's toenails, a lawsuit claims. The woman said she suffered significant pain as two toenails were pulled, and...
  
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• German Doctor Sentenced to Life for Murdering 15 Patients Under Palliative Care

  09-07-2026 16:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A Berlin court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a German doctor to life in prison on charges of murdering 15 of his patients who were under palliative care, in a case involving allegations he torched the homes of victims...
  
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• GLP-1s and Liver Cancer Recurrence; IBS Acupuncture; Transmural Healing in Crohn's

  09-07-2026 16:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Diabetes patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) experienced longer time to HCC recurrence and longer survival when they initiated a GLP-1 agonist rather than a DPP-4 inhibitor, a target trial emulation study found. (Gut...
  
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• 'The Pitt' Actors Get Over a Dozen Emmy Nominations

  09-07-2026 16:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- With its ensemble of doctors, nurses, interns, and patients squeezed together into a small emergency department (ED) with scripts that play out in real time, "The Pitt" feels like a lab made to grow great performances. The Emmys...
  
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• Cancer Surge Coming; Trump on Mitch McConnell; Last Iron-Lunged American Dies

  09-07-2026 15:41 via medpagetoday.com
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  Estimates suggest a 66.7% global increase in cancer incidence by 2050, with the greatest burden in low-income countries (133.3%), according to a report from the...
  
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• Eye Specialists Flag Concerns About Pricey Lenses in Cataract Surgery

  09-07-2026 14:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients undergoing cataract surgery are often given the choice of a standard lens that's covered by insurance, or "upgrading" to a multifocal lens that uses newer technology--at a much steeper out-of-pocket price, often...
  
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• TPG and Blackstone seek more than $4bn for Hologic unit to unlock cash

  09-07-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Private equity groups look to pay down debt and repay investors from one of last year’s biggest leveraged buyouts
  
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• Blackstone and TPG seek more than $4bn for Hologic unit to unlock cash

  09-07-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Private equity groups look to pay down debt and repay investors from one of last year’s biggest leveraged buyouts
  
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• Republican Senator Blasts Proposed Changes to Federal Grantmaking Process

  08-07-2026 23:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A Republican senator criticized a proposed rule from the White House's budget office that would substantially change how federal grants are managed, arguing that it has the potential to harm patients and set back biomedical research...
  
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• A Better Idea of When Mild HCM Is Likely to Go Downhill Fast

  08-07-2026 23:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- If therapies were to expand to people with mild hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the first in line should be specific groups more prone to disease worsening, suggested one registry study.
  Out of 2,500 people with phenotypically...
  
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• Outbreak of Cyclosporiasis Grows to More than 1,000 Cases

  08-07-2026 23:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Nearly 1,000 people in Michigan have been diagnosed with Cyclospora infections that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea, making it the largest such outbreak in state history and one of the nation's largest in years.
  No deaths...
  
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• Modified Amino Acid Improves Neurologic Symptoms in Rare Genetic Disorder

  08-07-2026 23:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Levacetylleucine (Aqneursa) improved neurologic symptoms and functioning in adults and children with ataxia-telangiectasia in a phase III, randomized, crossover trial.
  The primary endpoint was the mean 12-week change in Scale...
  
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• Chronic Kidney Disease Increasingly Driven By Diabetes

  08-07-2026 23:16 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the U.S. was generally stable over the past decade, but the underlying diagnoses driving the condition changed over time, according to National Health and Nutrition Examination...
  
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• Study Hints at Survival Benefit With Transplant for Metastatic Lung Cancer

  08-07-2026 23:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Lung transplant for selected metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients was associated with better early survival outcomes in a prospective, single-center study.
  Among 98 patients with lung-only involvement despite...
  
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• Trump Administration Pushes Hospitals to Offer Healthier Food

  08-07-2026 22:31 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- HHS officials launched their "Make Hospital Food Healthier" Pledge campaign Wednesday, saying that the program will promote long-term wellness.
  "Patients recovering from serious medical conditions deserve better than ultra-processed...
  
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• Many Men With LUTS Could Be Candidates to Stop Alpha-Blocker Treatment

  08-07-2026 22:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- More than a third of older men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) derived little or no benefit from an alpha-blocker and might be candidates for "deprescribing," a small, randomized study suggested.
  During active treatment...
  
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• Execs Imprisoned for Adderall Scheme; FDA Ketamine Warning; Wellness Cult Psychosis

  08-07-2026 21:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Two executives from the San Francisco-based telehealth provider Done Global were sentenced to years in prison for an alleged $90 million pill-mill scheme involving amphetamine/dextroamphetamine salts (Adderall), the Justice Department...
  
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• Treatment Horizon Expanding for Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis

  08-07-2026 21:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a rare and aggressive kidney disease characterized by scarring of the glomeruli, has no known cure but treatment options are expanding.
  The progressive disease, which is estimated to...
  
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• Dendritic Cell Therapy Shows Promise in Early HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

  08-07-2026 20:15 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, phase II findings suggested that intratumoral dendritic cell therapy combined with HER2-targeted treatment may enhance immune activity and improve pathologic complete...
  
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• Looking Ahead to the Future of Brain Tumor Imaging and Care

  08-07-2026 20:06 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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• Private Equity's New AI Push Raises Old Questions for Healthcare

  08-07-2026 18:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future issue for healthcare workers. Hospitals, insurers, pharmacy chains, and health technology companies are already rolling out AI tools for documentation, scheduling, workflow management...
  
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• Ovarian Cancer Frequently Diagnosed Only After Hospital Admission

  08-07-2026 18:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- More than 40% of women with ovarian cancer did not have diagnoses until after an emergency hospital admission for symptoms, a study from England found.
  National registry data showed that 11,377 of 28,204 women had ovarian cancer...
  
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