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• Finding My Way in My Alcohol Dependence Journey

  18-08-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The content below was provided by Alkermes, Inc. Caren is a recovery advocate who works in addiction prevention and education. She also lives with alcohol dependence and was compensated by Alkermes® for her participation...
  
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• GLP-1s and Birth Control; Retatrutide Lawsuits; Air Pollution and Menopause

  18-08-2026 20:49 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Experts suggested that GLP-1 agonists may reduce the effectiveness of birth control pills. (The Hill)
  A phase III trial of avexitide, a first-in-class GLP-1 receptor antagonist, met its primary endpoint of reducing low blood...
  
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• Threat Monitoring, Legal Resources: How Hospitals Adapted to Abortion Bans

  18-08-2026 19:31 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Hospitals in abortion ban states quickly developed standards to protect clinicians from legal risks when providing abortions in cases where the health or life of the mother is at risk, a qualitative study showed.
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• Study Finds Repeated NT-proBNP a Good General Health Test for Many Folks

  18-08-2026 18:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A serially tracked heart stress (HS) biomarker was generally indicative of a person's heart risks in older age, even among relatively healthy individuals, an observational study showed.
  Based on the ASPREE trial and its extension...
  
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• CDC's New Director Is Pressed to Do Something About Agency's Zombie Programs

  18-08-2026 17:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The CDC still has an Alzheimer's disease program. Congress appropriated $41 million to it this year. There's just no one staffing it.
  Then there's the agency's Office on Smoking and Health. Congress allocated $246 million for...
  
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• The Promise and Peril of Gene Editing

  18-08-2026 17:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Few things evoke a greater sense of desperation than a parent seeking an experimental treatment for their child. That desperation can make even extraordinary risks seem worth taking. This dynamic has come into stark relief after...
  
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• Trump Taking Credit for Decline in Drug Prices, but Reason for the Drop Is Complex

  18-08-2026 16:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- President Donald Trump has been taking credit for new federal data that shows U.S. prescription drug prices fell 0.8% in July and are down 3.1% from a year ago, the steepest year-over-year drop since 1963.
  The plunging prices...
  
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• Erection Drug for Longevity? Soda and Stomach Cancer; Luigi Mangione Trial Postponed

  18-08-2026 15:33 via medpagetoday.com
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  The erectile dysfunction drug tadalafil (Cialis) is being hyped in wellness circles for unproved longevity benefits. (NPR)
  The New York Times took a look at new...
  
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• School Vaccination Rates Inch Down and Exemptions Reach Record High

  17-08-2026 23:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Monday.
  The fraction of kids exempted from vaccine requirements...
  
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• Senators Blast RFK Jr. Over AHRQ Grant Cancellations

  17-08-2026 23:21 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- More than two dozen Democratic senators called on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to rescind recent grant cancellations by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
  "We write to express our profound concern...
  
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• Early Antivirals for Kids' Flu Linked to Lower Risk of Severe Outcomes

  17-08-2026 22:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Early antiviral therapy at home for kids with influenza lowered the risk of related hospitalization, a retrospective case-control study from Taiwan indicated.
  Among 1,492 children, receiving antiviral therapy within 48 hours...
  
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• Vaccine Prevents Acute Gastroenteritis Deaths in Cases Caused by Rotavirus

  17-08-2026 21:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Vaccination was highly effective at preventing death in children hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis caused by rotavirus infection, but its impact on mortality when rotavirus wasn't the culprit was less certain, according...
  
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• Congo's Fast-Moving Ebola Outbreak Becomes the Country's Worst

  17-08-2026 21:05 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Congo's fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people and become the deadliest outbreak of the disease on record in the Central African nation.
  The outbreak unfolding in one of Congo's most vulnerable regions is...
  
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• Multi-Joint Arthritis Bodes Poorly for Healthy Aging

  17-08-2026 20:49 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Frailty worsened more for individuals with osteoarthritis (OA) affecting two or more joints versus those with single-joint or no OA, data from a long-running, population-based study indicated.
  Among more than 1,000 participants...
  
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• Scapegoating Fauci Won't Protect Us From the Next Pandemic

  17-08-2026 20:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In my last column, I addressed why the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's decision to hold Anthony Fauci, MD, in contempt of Congress was legally flawed and procedurally unprecedented. But beyond the...
  
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• FDA-Approved Peanut Allergy Immunotherapy Exits Market

  17-08-2026 20:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Not many allergists are mourning the exit of the first and only FDA-approved oral immunotherapy (OIT) product--peanut allergy treatment Palforzia--from the market.
  The standardized peanut protein product had been approved...
  
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• This Fetus Had a Parasitic Twin in an Unusual Location

  17-08-2026 19:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- An expectant mother learned her fetus had an extremely rare and life-threatening congenital anomaly, but a carefully executed procedure helped ensure a good outcome.
  After a local clinic identified a tumor around the face of...
  
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• Despite Vaccines, Most U.S. Adults Not Immune to Hepatitis A or B

  17-08-2026 19:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Even with effective vaccines available, most U.S. adults don't have immunity to either the hepatitis A or B virus (HAV, HBV), according to a cross-sectional analysis, and recent federal vaccine recommendations could push immunity...
  
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• Nextstrain Aims to Boost Tracking of Virus Evolution

  17-08-2026 18:02 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- During the acute phase of the COVID pandemic, Nextstrain became known as a key platform for tracking the evolution of SARS-CoV-2. It took viral genome sequences uploaded to global repositories like GISAID and GenBank and turned...
  
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• Obesity Drugs Show Early Promise Against PMOS

  17-08-2026 17:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Charlotte Touzalin was still a young teenager when she began struggling with weight gain, abnormal periods, and unwanted facial hair--the same puzzling symptoms that plagued her mom for decades and that no doctor could piece...
  
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• Ebola outbreak becomes DR Congo’s deadliest

  17-08-2026 17:20 via ft.com
  World Health Organization warns country has entered ‘intense transmission’ phase of the virus
  
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• Cold-Stored Platelets Safe in Cardiac Surgery

  17-08-2026 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Extending the shelf life of platelets with refrigeration didn't hurt their hemostatic function for people undergoing complex cardiac surgery, the landmark CHIPS trial found.
  Platelets stored at 1-6°C (33.8-42.8°F...
  
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• Tommy John Dies; Fauci Called Again to Testify; Vasculitis Drug Pulled in Europe

  17-08-2026 15:30 via medpagetoday.com
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  Pitcher Tommy John, who won 288 games during his 26-year MLB career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that...
  
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• 'Same Disease, Very Different Access': What We Heard This Week

  16-08-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- "Same disease, very different access."--Fei Wang, PhD, of Breakthrough T1D in St. Leonards, Australia, discussing the state-by-state disparities in the U.S. in terms of type 1 diabetes incidence and access to pediatric endocrinologists...
  
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• Health AI Should be Assistive, Not Autonomous

  16-08-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A physician signs a progress note generated from an ambient recording. Another accepts a predictive risk score embedded in the electronic health record. A third submits an artificial intelligence (AI)-drafted appeal of an insurance...
  
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• Have Trouble Sleeping in a New Place? Most Do Because of the First-Night Effect

  16-08-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The first night in a new place is always the same for Robinson Leoni: He takes longer to fall asleep, wakes up more often during the night, and gets less sleep overall.
  At home he averages 7 hours. The first night away--...
  
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• New Polymyalgia Rheumatica Treatment; Genetic Treatment for Hypercholesterolemia

  15-08-2026 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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• Doctors Will Bear Witness to the Childhood Suffering

  15-08-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- We are living in truly unprecedented times. On August 10, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at reshaping the nation's childhood immunization schedule, including directing HHS to pursue separate measles, mumps, and...
  
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• Before Killing Her Kids, Lindsay Clancy Searched About Hallucinations, Psychosis

  15-08-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Editor's Note: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988.
  Lindsay Clancy searched online about...
  
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• Timeline of Luigi Mangione's Criminal Cases in the Killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO

  14-08-2026 23:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Luigi Mangione's guilty plea Friday to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson resolved one of two cases against him in the executive's death. He is scheduled to go on trial on state murder...
  
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