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• Fact Focus: Trump's False Claims During Childhood Vaccine Order Signing

  11-08-2026 21:50 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- While issuing an executive order on Monday aimed at getting states to revise childhood vaccine recommendations, President Donald Trump and others in his administration repeated several false claims about those vaccines, as well...
  
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• FDA Approves First CELMoD Drug for Multiple Myeloma

  13-08-2026 23:37 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA granted accelerated approval to the first cereblon E3 ligase modulation (CELMoD) therapy for relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, the agency announced on Thursday.
  An oral drug, iberdomide (Zenbexus) is approved...
  
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• Luigi Mangione Expected to Plead Guilty in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing, Source Says

  13-08-2026 23:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to a person familiar with the matter.
  The person, who was...
  
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• Preoperative GLP-1s Don't Diminish Bariatric Surgery Results, Study Suggests

  13-08-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Bariatric surgery patients who took GLP-1 medications prior to surgery lost the same amount of weight after 1 year as individuals unexposed to the blockbuster class of drugs, a retrospective review indicated.
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• Researchers Try to Tie Cannabis to Irregular Heartbeats, Opposite Turns Out True

  13-08-2026 22:37 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Defying expectations, regular cannabis users had fewer ectopic heartbeats on the days they reached for the joint or vape, a randomized crossover trial showed.
  On days using cannabis, there was a significant 9% reduction in these...
  
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• JAK Inhibitor Might Be the Most Effective One Yet for Severe Alopecia

  13-08-2026 21:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The JAK inhibitor upadacitinib (Rinvoq) dramatically improved hair regrowth for patients with severe alopecia areata in two parallel phase III trials, with results that appeared better than previously seen among the class of...
  
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• Study Questions How Prostate Cancer Focal Therapy Is Being Used

  13-08-2026 21:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- While the use of focal therapy for nonmetastatic prostate cancer is limited, half of procedures occurred in settings that are not supported by current guidelines, according to a retrospective study.
  Among over 1.1 million men...
  
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• Trump's Vaccine Order Will Show Up in My ICU

  13-08-2026 21:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Any cost-benefit analysis has two columns. President Trump's August 10 executive order on vaccines considers neither. If put into action, it would impose a burden on families in the form of additional medical visits, yet it carries...
  
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• Are HYROX Athletes Overdoing It?

  13-08-2026 20:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Half of participants in a new, increasingly popular fitness competition called HYROX said they had sustained an injury during training for it during the previous year, an international survey found.
  Among 418 HYROX athletes...
  
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• How Much Liquid Is Really in Vaccines? Kinda Chic to get a Colonoscopy; PPE Comeback

  13-08-2026 19:32 via medpagetoday.com
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  How much liquid is actually in pediatric vaccines? Pediatrician Nicole Baldwin, MD, set the record straight...
  
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• Brad Pitt Opens Up About Suicidal Ideation

  13-08-2026 18:50 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.
  Brad Pitt, the famed actor and film producer, recently shared that...
  
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• Tylenol Poisonings; Comedy Therapy Before Liver Transplant? U.S. IBD Prevalence

  13-08-2026 18:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- U.S. poison centers reported a nearly fourfold increase in calls for liver injury from 2000 to 2024, with acetaminophen (Tylenol) identified as the most common substance implicated. (Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology...
  
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• Trump's Vaccine Plan Brings Obstacles to Parents, Providers, and Drugmakers

  13-08-2026 17:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Public health experts have been quick to condemn an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at upending childhood vaccinations in the U.S., but the biggest obstacles may be the unprecedented financial and logistical...
  
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• Trump's MMR Vaccine Plan Brings Obstacles to Parents, Providers, and Drugmakers

  13-08-2026 17:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Public health experts have been quick to condemn an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at upending childhood vaccinations in the U.S., but the biggest obstacles may be the unprecedented financial and logistical...
  
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• Nurses Sue Managers Over Attacks; Sleep Study Fraud; Spine Device Exec Sentenced

  13-08-2026 16:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Nurses at an Iowa mental health facility sued their supervisors over repeated assaults by patients, alleging they knew about continued violence but did nothing to stop it. (The Gazette)
  The owner of a testing company in Oregon...
  
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• Whole Foods Recall; RFK Jr.'s Voting Problem; Glass Particles in Biosimilar

  13-08-2026 15:37 via medpagetoday.com
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  Whole Foods said some of Taylor Farms' jalapeño-containing dips, salsa, and guacamole that were recalled due to potential Salmonella contamination were sold...
  
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• Trump's Vax Order Hands Some MAHA Voters a Win, but Gives Democrats an Attack Line

  12-08-2026 23:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- President Donald Trump pivoted the nation's attention back to vaccines this week with an executive order that aims to scale back the childhood immunization schedule and space out shots into separate visits.
  After acting to overhaul...
  
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• Experts Flag Potential Safety Concerns in New Prader-Willi Drug

  12-08-2026 23:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Prader-Willi syndrome experts are warning of potential safety risks associated with extended-release diazoxide choline (Vykat XR), a drug approved last year for treating the extreme bouts of hunger experienced by patients with...
  
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• Stopping Statins in Trial Didn't Raise Mortality Risk, but ...

  12-08-2026 23:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Experts were still unsure whether stopping primary prevention statins in the elderly was a good idea following the report of a modestly sized randomized trial.
  In Statins in the Elderly (SITE, also known as SAGA), statin discontinuation...
  
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• Arthritis Pain Management Falls Short in U.S., CDC Study Suggests

  12-08-2026 22:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Federal survey data for 2023 showed an estimated prevalence of moderate to severe joint pain among U.S. adults of 58.5%, suggesting that pain management in arthritis has a long way to go.
  Among the participants saying they had...
  
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• Alzheimer's Risk Lower for Women on Estrogen-Only Menopausal Hormone Therapy

  12-08-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Women who used estrogen-only menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) had a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to a retrospective longitudinal study.
  Estrogen-only MHT users had lower odds of increased Alzheimer's pathology...
  
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• Psych Meds Scrutinized in Murder Trial; LSD's Phase III Win; Bipolar Mortality Study

  12-08-2026 20:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A focus this week in the murder trial of former nurse Lindsay Clancy turned to the psychiatric medications she was taking prior to killing her three children. (AP)
  The Department of Veterans Affairs announced the launch of PIVOT...
  
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• Pediatric Glioma Trials Test Combination Strategies to Overcome Resistance

  12-08-2026 20:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (ISPNO), researchers presented findings from two trials aimed at overcoming resistance to standard BRAF/MEK-targeted therapies in patients with pediatric low-grade gliomas...
  
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• Doctors Born Outside U.S. Play Big Role in Caring for Underserved Patients

  12-08-2026 20:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Internal medicine physicians who were not born in the U.S. treated 22 million Medicare beneficiaries in 2024, but Trump administration immigration policies may put a dent in that workforce, exacerbating care shortages for the...
  
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• I'm an Emergency Physician, and I'm Ready to Start Prescribing Air Conditioning

  12-08-2026 19:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Two summers ago, in the middle of my busy shift in the emergency department, my mother called. At 85 years old and struggling with dementia, she was barely managing to live independently in the childhood home where I grew up...
  
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• Debate on Use of SSRIs in Pregnancy Shifting, Experts Say

  12-08-2026 19:12 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For pregnant women with major depressive disorder (MDD), serious adverse outcomes are unlikely with the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), researchers said.
  After thalidomide used for morning sickness led...
  
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• Wait Times for Cancer Surgery Are Increasing, Study Finds

  12-08-2026 19:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Cancer patients are facing longer wait times between diagnosis and the start of first-course therapy, a retrospective cohort study suggested.
  Among more than 2.7 million patients with nonmetastatic stage I-III breast, colon...
  
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• From Nutrition to Vaccines, Here's What MAHA Policies Fail to Deliver

  12-08-2026 18:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The U.S. faces a genuine public health challenge. Rates of chronic disease such as diabetes and hypertension, obesity, substance use, mental health conditions, and health inequities remain stubbornly high despite decades of medical...
  
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• AI-Created Viruses; Taylor Farms' Outbreak History; Pulling a 'Full Fauci'

  12-08-2026 18:03 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Stanford researchers successfully had an artificial intelligence (AI) model create a whole family of simple viruses that can only infect bacteria. While these particular viruses pose no threat to people, there have long been...
  
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• Medicaid to Stop Paying for Some Gender-Affirming Care for Youth

  12-08-2026 15:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- President Donald Trump's administration said that Medicaid will stop paying for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for transgender minors and the state Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) won't pay for the...
  
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