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• FDA Approves First mRNA Flu Vaccine

  06-08-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved the trivalent flu vaccine mRNA-1010 (mFLUSIVA) for use in all adults age 50 years or older, Moderna announced on Wednesday. It is the first approved flu vaccine to use the mRNA technology that sped COVID-19 vaccine...
  
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• A Community-Designed Diet for Heart Failure; E-Cigarettes After Smoking Cessation

  08-08-2026 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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• RFK Jr. Has a Point About Psychiatry. It's Not the One He's Making.

  08-08-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- If you'd asked my grandmother about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), she would have replied, "That's a white people thing." What Western medicine pathologizes, my Asian family would've just called "life."
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• Woman Says She Was Wrongly Diagnosed With Cancer, Had Surgery Due to Labeling Error

  08-08-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- An Atlanta-area woman alleges that she was wrongly diagnosed with cancer and underwent an unneeded hysterectomy because of a labeling error.
  Cassandra Barksdale and her attorneys filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Kaiser Permanente...
  
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• Pfizer grapples with ‘a world of hurt’ after Covid triumph

  08-08-2026 12:00 via ft.com
  Sliding vaccine revenues and fears it overpaid for new drugs pile pressure on boss Albert Bourla
  
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• Type 1 Diabetes Cases and Care Vary Widely Across States

  07-08-2026 23:08 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Wide variations in the numbers of type 1 diabetes patients and specialists throughout the U.S. may affect care availability as diagnostic and treatment modalities continue to advance, data from a cross-sectional study indicated...
  
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• Child at Center of Texas Brain-Death Dispute Is Taken Off Life Support and Dies

  07-08-2026 22:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A 2-year-old girl whose parents sued a Texas hospital to prevent it from testing if she was brain-dead after she drowned in a hotel pool on Memorial Day has been removed from life support and died, her family said this week...
  
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• What Did New Research About Circumcision Show?

  07-08-2026 22:10 via medpagetoday.com
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• Liposomal Chemo Combination No Better Than Standard Induction in Pediatric AML

  07-08-2026 21:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Liposomal daunorubicin and cytarabine (Vyxeos) didn't hold up to standard daunorubicin/cytarabine induction therapy in children and young adults with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a phase III trial from the Children...
  
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• Biden's Bedtime Cancer Symptom; Top Cancer Hospitals; FDA Panel to Review MCED Test

  07-08-2026 20:59 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Former First Lady Jill Biden said she noticed a concerning symptom before former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer--he was waking up to use the bathroom up to seven times a night. (USA Today...
  
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• Donor Hearts May Work Better if Stored Slightly Warmer

  07-08-2026 20:08 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Colder was not better when it came to donor heart storage, according to preliminary findings from a retrospective analysis.
  Between static cold storage (SCS) at 4-8°C and 10°C, there was a marked difference in outcomes...
  
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• Seeking to Prosecute Fauci Is Disgraceful

  07-08-2026 18:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- I have been friends with Tony Fauci, MD, for 40 years, working alongside him, from AIDS and Ebola through to the COVID-19 pandemic and mpox. He deserves our gratitude, not politics. But that's not what I want to write about...
  
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• U.S. Sees Big Jump in Nausea Cases Among Frequent Marijuana Users in the Hospital

  07-08-2026 16:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In the past year, the U.S. has seen a jump in frequent marijuana users going to the hospital with a nausea and vomiting condition, according to a report released Thursday.
  "The abruptness and sustained magnitude of the increase...
  
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• Court Case Challenging Medicaid Work Rule's 'Frailty' Requirement Gets Moved Up

  07-08-2026 16:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- States unhappy about a new "medical frailty" provision in the Medicaid work requirement rule are continuing their fight over the rule in court.
  The work requirement--or "community engagement" requirement, as it is officially...
  
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• Trump Considers Vaccine-Autism Order; McConnell Leaves Rehab; Lettuce Scare Eases

  07-08-2026 15:37 via medpagetoday.com
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  White House officials are considering an executive order addressing vaccines and autism, aligning with President Donald Trump's push for increased federal action...
  
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• FDA Finally OKs Twice-Rejected Melanoma Drug

  06-08-2026 23:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA granted accelerated approval to vusolimogene oderparepvec (Tudriqev), known as RP1, in combination with nivolumab (Opdivo) to treat adults with unresectable advanced cutaneous melanoma, the agency announced Thursday...
  
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• FDA Approves First-in-Class Narcolepsy Drug

  06-08-2026 22:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved oveporexton (Orzeyful) for the treatment of narcolepsy type 1 (narcolepsy with cataplexy) in adults, the agency announced Wednesday.
  Oveporexton is a first-in-class orexin treatment that goes beyond symptom...
  
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• FDA Approves First mRNA Flu Vaccine But Limits Use to Older Adults

  06-08-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved the trivalent flu vaccine mRNA-1010 (mFLUSIVA) for use in all adults age 50 years or older, Moderna announced on Wednesday. It is the first approved flu vaccine to use the mRNA technology that sped COVID-19 vaccine...
  
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• 'A New Level of Disrespect' From RFK Jr.; Pizza Over Raises? MD's Sympathy for a Bug

  06-08-2026 20:12 via medpagetoday.com
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  "This is a new level of disrespect," said cardiologist Ali Haider, MD, on TikTok, responding to Health Secretary...
  
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• I Led the CDC. Here's My Advice for Erica Schwartz.

  06-08-2026 20:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- I led the CDC. I know what greets a new director on day one: an inbox that never empties, urgent calls about health threats worldwide, a workforce at every level watching her every move, and a Congress that controls whether her...
  
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• Three Factors Tied to 13 Additional Dementia-Free Years

  06-08-2026 18:57 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Maintaining three key health factors during midlife--normal blood pressure, no diabetes, and not smoking--was associated with nearly 13 additional dementia-free years, a study of 12,000 people in the U.S. showed.
  Individuals...
  
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• Trump's Gain-of-Function Policy May Suppress Key Pandemic Research

  06-08-2026 17:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A White House policy that seeks to end what it calls "dangerous gain-of-function" (DGOF) research is not as restrictive as experts feared, but several said it could still suppress essential work that would better prepare the...
  
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• Doc Banned for Closed-Loop Gut Error; Orthopedist Spread Herpes? $14M MA Settlement

  06-08-2026 17:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A doctor in the U.K. was banned from practicing medicine after creating a "closed loop" digestive system in a patient during emergency surgery. (People)
  A West Virginia orthopedist was accused of intentionally spreading herpes...
  
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• Study Points to How Vegan Diets May Aid in Weight Loss

  06-08-2026 17:12 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Adults with overweight who adopted a low-fat vegan diet ate fewer calories per gram of food without intentional calorie restriction, a secondary analysis of a randomized trial showed.
  Among 244 participants, those assigned to...
  
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• Testing Underway on Vaccines to Intercept Brewing Colon Cancer Before It Takes Root

  06-08-2026 17:08 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Stacy Norton, MD, was only 7 years old when her mother died of colon cancer, one of several family members struck by aggressive tumors at unusually young ages. Decades later, Norton rolled up her sleeve to help test if a new...
  
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• Best Gastro Hospitals; GI Bleeding in Jehovah's Witnesses; Steroids for DILI

  06-08-2026 16:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- U.S. News & World Report released its 2026 "Best Hospitals" list for gastroenterology and gastrointestinal (GI) surgery. Spoiler alert: The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, snagged the top spot.
  The FDA said the cyclosporiasis...
  
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• Committee Holds Fauci in Contempt; Outbreak Hospitalizes 36; ICE Detains Nurse

  06-08-2026 15:46 via medpagetoday.com
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  A Senate committee voted today to hold Anthony Fauci, MD, in contempt of Congress and refer him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution after he declined...
  
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• Senate Committee Votes to Hold Fauci in Contempt

  06-08-2026 15:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A Senate committee on Thursday voted to hold Anthony Fauci, MD, in contempt of Congress and refer him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing last week focused on...
  
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• Health Plans Losing Court Battles in No Surprises Act Cases

  05-08-2026 23:36 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The fate of the No Surprises Act's independent dispute resolution (IDR) clause continues to hang in the balance as it winds its way through the courts.
  The No Surprises Act, signed into law in 2020 by President Donald Trump...
  
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• Tool Brings Vax vs Disease Risk Into Stark Contrast

  05-08-2026 23:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- As vaccine hesitancy continues to rise, fueling a record-breaking resurgence of measles, among other public health threats, an online tool launched this week aims to help people better understand vaccine safety.
  The free and...
  
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