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• Individualizing Surgical Strategies in Adrenal Hypercortisolism

  30-06-2026 17:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At ENDO 2026, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, findings of a large surgical series suggested that postoperative hormonal testing to help individualize surgical strategies can optimize outcomes for patients who underwent...
  
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• Odds of Four HPV-Linked Cancers Higher in Transplant Recipients, HIV Patients

  30-06-2026 23:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- People with HIV and solid organ transplant recipients were significantly more likely to develop human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated anal, penile, vulvar, and cervical cancers, according to a Swedish retrospective case-control...
  
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• House Passes Bill to Ease Quality Reporting Requirements for Medicare ACOs

  30-06-2026 23:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Physician practices participating in a Medicare accountable care organization (ACO) may have an easier time submitting quality data to Medicare if a bill passed Monday by the House becomes law.
  H.R. 5347, the Health Care Efficiency...
  
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• Diabetes Drug Class Tied to Lower Dementia Risk in People With Psych Disorders

  30-06-2026 23:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Use of SGLT2 inhibitors was linked to lower dementia incidence and fewer related psychiatric outcomes in older adults with mood and psychotic disorders, according to a target trial emulation study.
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• After Recent Leadership Departures, Is the FDA Returning to Form?

  30-06-2026 23:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Some experts say the FDA's recent change of heart on a handful of drugs for rare diseases suggests a return to regular order after a tumultuous year, while others argue the flip-flopping signals more chaos.
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• Congressman Reveals Mystery Health Issue After 4-Month Absence

  30-06-2026 21:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- New Jersey Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. disclosed Tuesday that he was being treated for depression during his unexplained 4-month absence from the House, suggesting in a brief floor speech that he remained silent about his condition...
  
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• Most Adults on Social Media Engaged With Health Content

  30-06-2026 21:19 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The bulk of adults who use social media reported engaging with health information via these platforms, despite not always finding it trustworthy, according to survey data.
  Out of over 7,000 adults, 87.8% reported using social...
  
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• GLP-1s After Surgery; Retatrutide for Pulmonary Hypertension? Vit D for Prediabetes

  30-06-2026 20:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Incretin-based therapies after bariatric surgery were associated with clinically meaningful augmented weight loss in a dose- and timing-dependent manner, according to U.S. cohort data. (eClinicalMedicine)
  A Michigan couple was...
  
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• New Heart Failure Definition; Mitral TEER Pitfalls; Drug's Comeback in Stroke?

  30-06-2026 20:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- International groups agreed on a second universal definition of heart failure, which moves away from rigid ejection fraction cutoff values. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology)
  AC01, a novel oral calcium-sensitising...
  
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• Brain Worm Lesions Mimicking Cancer; Midlife Dementia Marker; Ovarian Reserve and MS

  30-06-2026 19:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A case report in Emerging Infectious Diseases described multiple brain lesions that initially mimicked metastases in a 60-year-old man in Spain who eventually was diagnosed with neurocysticercosis.
  An Alzheimer's blood test...
  
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• What Would It Take to Change Brain MRI Surveillance in Metastatic Breast Cancer?

  30-06-2026 19:36 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, a phase III trial was presented evaluating whether routine brain MRI surveillance can improve outcomes for patients with metastatic breast cancer and help guide future...
  
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• AI Doesn’t Just Misinform Patients. It Gives Them a Plausible Story.

  30-06-2026 18:50 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A patient in her 50s came to my eye clinic for flashes of light in one eye. Before she sat down, she told me, calmly, that she already knew what this was: migraine with visual aura. She had worked it out with ChatGPT over several...
  
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• Does DESTINY-Breast09 Change First-Line Care in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer?

  30-06-2026 18:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The DESTINY-Breast09 trial, presented at this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, established trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd; Enhertu) plus pertuzumab (Perjeta) as a new first-line treatment option for...
  
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• Nursing Gains 'Professional' Label for Student Loans After Judge's Ruling

  30-06-2026 17:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy, and several other fields will be eligible to take out higher federal student loan amounts--at least for now--after a federal judge blocked part of a Trump...
  
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• Too Much Health Tech, Not Enough Health Tech

  30-06-2026 17:05 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In healthcare today, it looks like there is a tension between too much technology, and not enough technology.
  And simultaneously, too much humanity, and not enough humanity.
  It seems like these things, the movement towards...
  
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• RFK Jr. Hasn't Restored Trust in Public Health, Cassidy Says

  30-06-2026 16:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hasn't restored trust in public health, Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), said in a nearly hour-long interview on "Face the Nation" this weekend.
  "If you build public health upon a foundation...
  
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• NFL Star Diagnosed With ALS at 39; 'No Surprises' Windfall; Arizona Plague Scare

  30-06-2026 15:39 via medpagetoday.com
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  Chris Johnson, a former NFL running back for the Tennessee Titans, revealed he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at 39. (People)
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• NEJM Retracts Pivotal Trial of FDA-Approved Drug

  30-06-2026 15:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) retracted the pivotal study supporting FDA's approval of avacopan (Tavneos) for severe forms of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis.
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• More People Have Therapists Than Ever Before, and That's a Good Thing

  30-06-2026 14:26 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.
  It seems everyone knows someone--or several people--in therapy...
  
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• FDA Panel on Peptides Will Include Experts Who Promote the Unproven Chemicals

  29-06-2026 23:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- When U.S. health officials meet next month to reconsider a list of controversial peptide drugs, they will hear from a new set of voices: doctors and pharmacists with deep financial ties to the burgeoning industry of unproven...
  
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• Study Suggests No Link Between Prenatal Tylenol and Risks for Autism, ADHD

  29-06-2026 23:16 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A large population-based cohort study in Hong Kong demonstrated that acetaminophen (Tylenol) use during pregnancy was unlikely to increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder or attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD...
  
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• Study Homes In on Simpler Lung Cancer Screening Criteria

  29-06-2026 23:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Lung cancer screening criteria based on smoking duration appeared to be a better method of evaluating lung cancer risk than current guidelines that use pack-years and years since cessation, according to results from a nationally...
  
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• May as Well Get COVID and Flu Shots on the Same Day, Study Says

  29-06-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Getting a COVID and flu shot on the same day was not associated with an increased risk of adverse events, according to a target trial emulation using electronic health data from the VA.
  Compared with influenza vaccination alone...
  
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• Loss of Payment Assistance for AMD Drugs Strains Patients and Ophthalmologists

  29-06-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Loss of copayment assistance for drugs to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) significantly disrupted patient care, including switching to less costly (and perhaps less effective) therapy, reliance on samples...
  
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• JenaValve TAVR Device Promising for LVAD-Associated Aortic Regurgitation

  29-06-2026 21:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- NEW YORK CITY--A transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) system could work as a last resort for patients with left ventricular assist device (LVAD)-associated aortic regurgitation (AR), according to a retrospective...
  
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• New Drug Approved for Thyroid Eye Disease

  29-06-2026 21:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved veligrotug (Lumvoa) for the treatment of thyroid eye disease (TED), regardless of disease activity or duration, Viridian Therapeutics announced on Friday.
  Veligrotug is the first treatment with labeling for...
  
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• A Flu Season Without ACIP: The Question for Fall

  29-06-2026 21:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The U.S. is heading toward the 2026-2027 respiratory virus season without a functioning Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). That is no small disruption. ACIP has guided national policy on influenza vaccination...
  
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• Europe's Record Heat Has Overwhelmed Paris Mortuaries and Left Families in Distress

  29-06-2026 20:31 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- PARIS--Every few minutes, the mortuary owner's phone rings. Since a record-smashing heat wave started taking lives and storage space for bodies in Paris and beyond, the funeral directors and mourning families calling him...
  
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• FDA Expands Risankizumab Label in Psoriatic Disease

  29-06-2026 18:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA expanded the indications for risankizumab (Skyrizi) in plaque psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis to include treatment of children 6 years and older, AbbVie announced.
  An interleukin (IL)-23 antagonist, risankizumab is...
  
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• Could Early Tirzepatide Alter the Course of Type 2 Diabetes?

  29-06-2026 17:57 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the American Diabetes Association annual meeting, 2-year results from the SUPPRESS-EARLY trial showed that initiating tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) early in the course of type 2 diabetes led to substantially higher rates...
  
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