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• Interchangeable Status Rapidly Boosted Scripts for Insulin Biosimilar

  02-05-2025 17:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Prescriptions for insulin glargine-yfgn (Semglee) rapidly increased when its status switched from a standard biosimilar to the first interchangeable insulin biosimilar, an economic evaluation found.
  After the biosimilar officially...
  
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• 'People Are Taking a Sledgehammer to Patients': What We Heard This Week

  11-01-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- "People are taking a sledgehammer to patients."--James Berenson, MD, of the Berenson Cancer Center in West Hollywood, California, discussing the potential for overtreatment in multiple myeloma when hematologists aim for minimal...
  
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• Precision or Collateral Damage? Oncology's F-16 Moment

  11-01-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The first time I flew aboard an F-16 supersonic fighter jet on a practice bombing run, I didn't yet know I would eventually become an oncologist. I only knew that precision was non-negotiable.
  Years ago, after completing the...
  
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• Dose of Uncertainty: Experts Wary of AI Health Gadgets at Consumer Electronics Show

  11-01-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Health tech gadgets displayed at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) make a lot of promises. A smart scale promoted a healthier lifestyle by scanning your feet to track your heart health, and an egg-shaped hormone tracker...
  
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• Regular Physical Activity Thwarts Fatigue, Boosts QoL in Colorectal Cancer

  11-01-2026 15:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO--Patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) had significantly less fatigue and better quality of life (QoL) when they remained physically active during treatment and recovery, a large prospective study showed.
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• What Do the New Dietary Guidelines Emphasize?

  10-01-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz
  
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• Immuno-Oncology Tops Embolization for Intermediate-Grade Liver Cancer

  10-01-2026 21:15 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO--An immuno-oncology (IO) regimen for intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) significantly extended treatment benefit versus transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), according to an interim analysis...
  
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• Global Pain Levels; Tertiary Patents on FDA-Approved Drugs

  10-01-2026 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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• The True Miracle of Ivermectin

  10-01-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Last year, an inspiring milestone in global health went largely unnoticed in the U.S. How much do you want to bet it was even less on the radar of Americans who still think that ivermectin--a Nobel Prize-winning anti-parasitic...
  
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• 'The Pitt' Is Back for Another Harrowing 15-Hour Shift

  10-01-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- When we first glimpse Noah Wyle's Michael Robinavitch--aka Dr. Robby, of course--in Season 2 of "The Pitt," he's looking darned good, truth be told. The beloved ER doc is riding his motorcycle to work, wearing nice shades...
  
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• Targeted Drug for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Sparks Early Enthusiasm

  10-01-2026 15:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO--Almost 80% of patients with heavily pretreated advanced/metastatic pancreatic cancer achieved disease control with a novel KRAS G12D inhibitor, a small preliminary study showed.
  The early results showed that...
  
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• New CDC Guidance Could Revive a Rare but Deadly Disease

  09-01-2026 23:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The CDC's abrupt shift away from recommending routine meningococcal disease vaccination in childhood will leave more children and adolescents at risk of rare but potentially devastating infections, infectious disease experts...
  
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• South Carolina Measles Outbreak Grows by Nearly 100, Spreads to North Carolina, Ohio

  09-01-2026 22:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- South Carolina's measles outbreak exploded into one of the worst in the U.S., with state health officials confirming 99 new cases in the past 3 days.
  The outbreak centered in Spartanburg County grew to 310 cases over the holidays...
  
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• Trump Bill May Result in Over a Million Missed Cancer Screenings

  09-01-2026 22:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Projected losses in Medicaid coverage as a result of President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" could result in more than 1 million missed cancer screenings and hundreds of avoidable deaths within 2 years of federal Medicaid...
  
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• Some Flu Measures Decline, but It's Not Clear This Severe Season Has Peaked

  09-01-2026 21:37 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- U.S. flu infections showed signs of a slight decline last week, but health officials say it is not clear that this severe flu season has peaked.
  New government data posted Friday--for flu activity through last week--...
  
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• Lawmakers Aim to Block Expansion of Prior Auth in Traditional Medicare

  09-01-2026 21:21 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Lawmakers on Thursday explored the merits of a bill that would block the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from implementing a pilot program to test whether prior authorization can succeed in traditional Medicare...
  
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• U.S. Guidelines Endorse At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening

  09-01-2026 21:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- New federal guidelines from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) now include the option for women ages 30 to 65 years at average risk for cervical cancer to self-collect samples for screening.
  The move means...
  
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• Kate Middleton's Chemo; SGLT2 Inhibitors and Prostate Cancer; New Myeloma Guidance

  09-01-2026 19:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, opened up about her experience with chemotherapy during a visit to a London hospital. (ABC News)
  Use of SGLT2 inhibitors was associated with a delay in hormone therapy failure among patients...
  
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• Alzheimer's Risk May Be Driven by a Single Gene

  09-01-2026 18:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Most Alzheimer's disease and nearly half of all dementia was associated with variations in the APOE gene, a study of 470,000 older adults suggested.
  In Alzheimer's disease, APOE3 and APOE4 were tied to 71.5% to 92.7% of cases...
  
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• Addressing Patient Emotions in Vaccine Conversations

  09-01-2026 17:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In "Beyond Diagnosis: Vaccines," Cleveland Clinic infectious disease specialist Donald Dumford, MD, and host John Mangels explore how clinicians can communicate effectively and empathetically with patients when discussing vaccinations...
  
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• Surgery Beats GLP-1 Drugs for Fat Loss, Muscle Retention, Study Suggests

  09-01-2026 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Bariatric surgery and GLP-1 receptor agonists both reduced fat mass over 2 years of treatment, but surgery was associated with a more favorable body composition, a cohort study indicated.
  By month 24, the covariate-adjusted...
  
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• Opportunistic Cholesterol Gene Screens: Good in Theory Only?

  09-01-2026 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A small pilot program was not enough to prove that opportunistic genomic screening for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) put a dent in people's cholesterol.
  In the Million Veteran Program Return Of Actionable Results (ROAR...
  
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• FDA Moves to 'Get Out of the Way' of Wearables, AI in the Clinic

  09-01-2026 16:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, announced that his agency issued two new guidance documents aimed at easing regulation of digital health products.
  Both guidance documents...
  
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• Gang Violence Forces Doctors Without Borders to Suspend Services at Haiti Clinic

  09-01-2026 16:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday that it was suspending services at a clinic in a violent neighborhood of Haiti's capital given ongoing clashes between police and armed groups.
  The announcement is a blow...
  
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• Health Myths Debunked; Astronaut's Medical Crisis; GLP-1 for Psoriatic Arthritis

  09-01-2026 15:30 via medpagetoday.com
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  Doctors debunked five women's health myths on mammograms, menopause, exercise, and more. (NPR)
  The FDA rejected tasimelteon (Hetlioz) as a treatment for jet lag...
  
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• I Deserve to Feel Safe Where I Train and Learn

  09-01-2026 15:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- America has a gun violence epidemic; we all know that. However, as the number of shootings outnumber the days in a year, the idea of a safe haven is growing increasingly fragile.
  Until the recent shooting at my campus of Brown...
  
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• Homes on sale in England should be tested for lead, says water watchdog

  09-01-2026 06:00
  Call by Drinking Water Inspectorate comes after FT revealed millions of people may be unknowingly exposed to toxic metal
  
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• House Passes Bill to Extend Healthcare Subsidies in Defiance of GOP Leaders

  08-01-2026 23:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House passed legislation Thursday, 230-196, that would extend expired healthcare subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as renegade GOP...
  
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• CAR7 Gene Therapy Shows Promise in T-Cell ALL

  08-01-2026 23:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The use of base editing to generate universal off-the-shelf CAR T cells induced durable remissions--up to 36 months in one case--in patients with relapsed or refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), according...
  
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• AMA Urges Congress to Make Telehealth Flexibilities Permanent

  08-01-2026 23:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- With the deadline for making pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities permanent looming at the end of the month, the American Medical Association (AMA) issued a brief aimed at convincing lawmakers to take action.
  "Since the COVID...
  
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