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• First-in-Class Drug for ADHD Wins FDA Approval

  27-07-2026 18:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved oral centanafadine (Simtriyo), a first-in-class triple reuptake inhibitor for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Otsuka announced late last week.
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• FDA Approves New Blood Test for Colon Cancer Screening

  27-07-2026 19:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved SimpleScreen CRC, a blood-based screening test for adults 45 years and older who are at average risk for colorectal cancer (CRC), Freenome announced.
  SimpleScreen CRC joins Guardant Health's Shield test, which...
  
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• What Is the 'Barbie Peptide' and Why Is It Risky?

  27-07-2026 19:39 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.
  An unregulated injectable peptide popping up across social media promises...
  
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• RSV Preventive Agent May Protect Against Another Serious Infection

  27-07-2026 18:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Nirsevimab (Beyfortus) for preventing respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections may have a protective spillover effect when it comes to invasive pneumococcal disease, a retrospective study suggested.
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• Brain Worm Culprit in Woman's Hallucinations, Incoherent Speech

  27-07-2026 18:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A previously healthy 52-year-old woman entered the emergency department with a 4-month history of headaches and visual hallucinations. For the past month, her speech was incoherent.
  When she reached the hospital, the patient...
  
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• Multistate Salmonella Outbreak Tied to Eggs Has Sickened 98 People

  27-07-2026 16:36 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Nearly 100 people in 17 states have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak tied to recalled eggs, federal health officials said Friday.
  The 98 people had illnesses that started between Nov. 21 and June 30, according to the FDA...
  
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• The Baby in the NICU Is Not the Only One Suffering

  27-07-2026 15:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- I often think about what happens when our worst fear as humans is realized--not that something should happen to me, but to my child. Why them, why not me?
  This is a sentiment regularly expressed to me by parents in neonatal...
  
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• 1,300 Dead in Outbreak; Cyclospora Response 'Mismanaged'? GLP-1 Access in Medicaid

  27-07-2026 15:24 via medpagetoday.com
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  More healthcare workers in Congo went on strike as confirmed Ebola cases in the nation approached 3,000, including 1,309 deaths. (AP)
  Florida reported the state...
  
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• Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says

  27-07-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Think-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform
  
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• Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, says study

  27-07-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Think-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform
  
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• 'What You're Seeing Here Is Pure Censorship': What We Heard This Week

  26-07-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- "What you're seeing here is pure censorship."--Steven Kahn, MBChB, editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, after American Diabetes Association (ADA) leadership blocked a collection of editorials discussing researchers' removal...
  
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• AMA President: It's Time to Lift Limits on Physician-Owned Hospitals

  26-07-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Since 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has expanded health insurance to millions, protecting people with pre-existing conditions and strengthening America's healthcare safety net. But one of its lesser-known provisions has...
  
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• GLP-1s and Alcohol Use Disorder; No Luck With Gonorrhea Vaccine

  25-07-2026 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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• Restrictions on Physician-Owned Hospitals are Justified

  25-07-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In 2008, The Washington Post reported on a devastating tragedy. A 44-year-old went into respiratory arrest following elective surgery at a physician-owned hospital in Abilene, Texas. The facility, which only provided limited...
  
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• This Year's Ebola Outbreak Has Spread Faster Than the Worst on Record

  25-07-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Ebola outbreak in Congo has killed over 1,000 people, reaching the grim milestone nearly three times faster than the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic that is considered the worst on record.
  Data from Congo's Ministry of Health shows...
  
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• Study Links GLP-1s to Lower Risk of Fragility Fractures in Diabetes Patients

  25-07-2026 14:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Starting a GLP-1 receptor agonist for type 2 diabetes was associated with a lower risk of fragility fractures in adults 50 and older, including hip and vertebral fractures, according to a large target trial emulation study....
  
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• Maha Inc: how companies tied to Kennedy’s movement are poised to benefit

  25-07-2026 13:00 via ft.com
  Kaleidoscope of industries emerge as early winners from administration’s health regulation overhaul
  
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• FDA Approves Branded Bevacizumab for Wet AMD

  24-07-2026 23:37 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved the first formulation of bevacizumab specifically for the treatment of neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), Outlook Therapeutics announced on Friday.
  The approval of bevacizumab-vikg (Lytenava...
  
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• Branded Bevacizumab Approved for Wet AMD

  24-07-2026 23:37 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved the first formulation of bevacizumab specifically for the treatment of neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), Outlook Therapeutics announced on Friday.
  The approval of bevacizumab-vikg (Lytenava...
  
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• FDA Panel Finds a Peptide It Doesn't Like

  24-07-2026 23:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- An FDA panel on Friday continued to recommend loosening compounding restrictions for all but one of the peptides it reviewed, despite safety concerns from agency scientists for all of them.
  During the second day of deliberations...
  
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• New Avacopan Analysis Sent to FDA After Data Manipulation Allegations

  24-07-2026 23:21 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Amgen has submitted a third-party review of avacopan's (Tavneos) pivotal trial data and other analyses to the FDA in a bid to keep the embattled drug for severe anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis...
  
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• FDA Gets New Avacopan Analysis After Alleging Data Manipulation

  24-07-2026 23:21 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Amgen has submitted a third-party review of avacopan's (Tavneos) pivotal trial data and other analyses to the FDA in a bid to keep the embattled drug for severe anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis...
  
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• FDA Approves Tylenol With Naproxen Combination

  24-07-2026 22:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved a combination tablet of 325-mg acetaminophen and 110-mg naproxen sodium (Tylenol with Naproxen) for over-the-counter (OTC) pain relief, the agency announced Friday.
  The opioid-free combination tablet is indicated...
  
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• What Are Compounders Commonly Adding to GLP-1 Drugs?

  24-07-2026 21:03 via medpagetoday.com
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• Captain Kirk Survives Cancer; Nonsmokers' Lung Cancer Crisis; Catfish and Cancer

  24-07-2026 20:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Actor William Shatner, Captain Kirk on the original "Star Trek" television series, and his real-life daughter talk about surviving advanced cancer. (ABC News)
  Texas cancer centers spent billions to attract some of the world...
  
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• Hold Off on JAK Inhibitors in Rheumatoid Arthritis Until After Shingles Vax?

  24-07-2026 18:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with rheumatoid arthritis who started a JAK inhibitor after they received one dose of a two-dose shingles vaccine series had similar varicella zoster virus (VZV) antibody levels by 12 weeks to those who waited until...
  
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• U.S. Measles Case Count Breaks Record

  24-07-2026 18:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The number of measles cases in the U.S. has surpassed the record-breaking tally for all of 2025, with five more months of 2026 still to come.
  The CDC logged 2,318 cases of measles as of Thursday, according to an agency update...
  
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• Diarrhea Bug Outbreak Hits 4 More States; Fauci to Testify; Doc Dies in House Fire

  24-07-2026 15:32 via medpagetoday.com
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  The CDC said that nine states--now also including Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania--are involved in the largest cyclosporiasis outbreak the agency...
  
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• Inside the Intestinal Crypt: Untold Stories of Cyclospora

  24-07-2026 15:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Picture the scene: It's May 1991, and a New York gastroenterologist will soon fly home from a medical meeting in Atlanta, all the while pondering a perplexing illness in Nepal.
  As Bradley Connor, MD, had just learned, many expats...
  
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• FDA Panel Narrowly Backs Lifting Restrictions on Peptides Backed by RFK Jr.

  23-07-2026 23:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- An FDA advisory committee voted Thursday to remove compounding restrictions on two peptides--BPC-157 and KPV--despite little evidence the products are safe or effective for medical use.
  BPC-157, touted by wellness influencers...
  
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