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• Methadone Treatment Can Be Integrated Into Primary Care, Randomized Trial Shows

  08-12-2025 23:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Primary care-based methadone treatment boosted adherence to guideline-directed care and helped patients access recommended health services, a randomized trial in the Ukraine showed.
  The study compared methadone delivery in a...
  
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• Number of Hospitals Equipped to Handle Pediatric Cases on the Decline

  10-12-2025 06:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The number of U.S. hospitals equipped to handle pediatric cases fell over two decades, data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids' Inpatient Database showed.
  From 2003 to 2022, the proportion of hospitals with...
  
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• The world is losing immunity to superbugs, but we can rebuild it

  10-12-2025 06:00
  The evidence base for reversing drug resistance is there: measure results, learn from failures and stay the course
  
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• Explainer: Chagas disease spreads to richer countries

  10-12-2025 06:00
  Untreated infection can lead to heart disease and other disorders decades later
  
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• Ketamine Not a Better Anesthetic for Intubation of Critically Ill Patients

  10-12-2025 01:15 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For tracheal intubation anesthesia in critically ill patients, ketamine didn't improve survival compared with etomidate, a pragmatic clinical trial showed.
  In-hospital death by day 28 occurred in 28.1% of ketamine-treated patients...
  
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• Energy Drinks Blamed for Man's Severe High Blood Pressure, Stroke

  10-12-2025 00:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Excessive energy drink consumption may explain a person's hypertension and stroke, as illustrated by a case report from England.
  A man in his 50s, otherwise fit and healthy, presented with sudden left-sided numbness and unsteadiness...
  
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• Rare Temporary Flu Complication Can Leave Some Kids Unable to Walk

  09-12-2025 23:23 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.
  A 9-year-old girl in Michigan recently made the news after suddenly...
  
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• Material Hardship, 'Catastrophic' Income Loss Common in Families of Kids With ALL

  09-12-2025 23:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO--Almost a third of families of children with newly diagnosed acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) had housing or food-related hardships or "catastrophic" income loss during standard chemotherapy, according to a study...
  
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• How a Rare Drug Made From Scientists' Blood Saves Babies From Botulism

  09-12-2025 22:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- When Alessandro Barbera was rushed to a California hospital with infant botulism in October, his father had barely heard of the disease, never mind the rare and costly treatment that likely saved the newborn's life.
  Now, however...
  
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• Cheap Drug During High-Risk Surgery Reduces Blood Transfusions

  09-12-2025 22:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO--A hospital policy to increase the use of perioperative tranexamic acid (TXA) reduced blood transfusions during major noncardiac surgeries with no apparent impact on clotting events, a cluster randomized trial from...
  
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• 'We Must Absolutely Ignore Them': Experts Defy CDC Panel's Hep B Vaccine Vote

  09-12-2025 21:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A CDC vaccine advisory panel's decision to stop recommending universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns has sparked a split between federal advisors and the medical societies that guide clinical care.
  After the recently...
  
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• Parkinson's and Flu Vaccines; Sleep and Life Expectancy; Positive Duchenne Data

  09-12-2025 20:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Midlife influenza vaccination did not raise the risk of Parkinson's disease in a large observational analysis, but potential post-vaccination benefits need further study, researchers said. (JAMA Network Open)
  A study of aging...
  
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• Bispecific Trial in Myeloma Sparks Talks of 'Functional Cure'

  09-12-2025 20:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO--Combining teclistamab (Tecvayli) with subcutaneous daratumumab-hyaluronidase (Darzalex Faspro) significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with relapsed/refractory...
  
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• The Shortage Within the Nursing Shortage

  09-12-2025 20:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The nationwide nursing shortage is a well-known issue and a common topic among the leadership of many healthcare organizations. Efforts to address the shortage have been underway for years, from promotional initiatives to encourage...
  
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• Unmatched Cardiology Fellowships; Long Troponin Assay; Goat Cheese and Heart Risk

  09-12-2025 19:31 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The latest Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Match had 236 applicants matched to fellowships, leaving 71 positions across 49 participating programs unfilled for the 2026 appointment year, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography...
  
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• Polatuzumab Vedotin With R-CHP Shows Strong Activity in Older DLBCL Patients

  09-12-2025 18:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting, a multicenter retrospective analysis used real-world data to examine the use of polatuzumab vedotin (Polivy) with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, prednisone...
  
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• Novel Orexin Drug Improves Cognitive Symptoms of Narcolepsy Type 1

  09-12-2025 17:57 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The investigational orexin receptor 2 (OX2R) agonist oveporexton improved cognitive symptoms of narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) in secondary analysis of a phase II trial.
  The oral agent improved attention, memory, and executive function...
  
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• Ianalumab's Success in Phase III Trials Marks a Turning Point in Sjögren's Disease

  09-12-2025 17:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In the recently reported NEPTUNUS-1 and -2 trials, presented at this year's American College of Rheumatology (ACR) annual meeting, investigators found that the anti-B-cell activating factor receptor (BAFF-R) antibody ianalumab...
  
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• The Future of MASH: More Screening, Drug Options, and Hints of Cirrhosis Regression

  09-12-2025 17:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- MedPage Today brought together three hepatology experts for a virtual roundtable discussion on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH): Moderator Sobia Laique, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, is joined by Naim Alkhouri...
  
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• ACA Enrollment Is Slightly Ahead of Last Year So Far, Despite Expiring Subsidies

  09-12-2025 17:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The number of Americans signing up for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance for 2026 is moderately higher than it was at a similar time last year, initial new federal data show, even as subsidies set to expire at the end...
  
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• I'm an Infectious Diseases Doctor. Our Pipeline of Experts Is in Distress.

  09-12-2025 17:12 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Every December, physicians across the U.S. who entered the National Resident Matching Program fellowship match learn whether they've secured a position for the next stage of their training. For most specialties, Match Day is...
  
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• New BTK Inhibitor Makes Case for Earlier Use in CLL

  09-12-2025 16:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO--Patients with newly diagnosed chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)/small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) lived significantly longer without disease progression when treated with the Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor...
  
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• Novel ITP Drug Helps Patients Ditch Daily Meds

  09-12-2025 16:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO--Adding four monthly infusions of novel ianalumab helped adults with primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) achieve durable disease control in the second-line setting while stopping daily treatment with an oral platelet...
  
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• FDA Probes RSV Drug Safety; Why Some Cancers Shouldn't Be Treated; New Mpox Strain

  09-12-2025 15:32 via medpagetoday.com
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  The FDA reportedly told drugmakers that approved monoclonal antibodies to protect infants against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) would be subject to new safety...
  
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• Why Britain doesn’t have enough dentists

  09-12-2025 06:00
  Plenty of trained foreigners want to work, but slots for the qualification exam seem as hard to get as Glastonbury tickets
  
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• Hospitals in England see more patients but waiting lists scarcely fall

  09-12-2025 01:01
  NHS data shows productivity growth in hospitals is rising more quickly than the government’s 2% target
  
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• Adding Precision Immunotherapy Improved Sepsis Outcomes

  08-12-2025 23:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Adding precision immunotherapy targeting macrophage activation-like syndrome and sepsis-induced immunoparalysis to standard care improved organ dysfunction by day 9 compared with standard care plus placebo, the phase IIb randomized...
  
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• Swing District Republicans Brace for Political Fallout if Obamacare Subsidies Expire

  08-12-2025 23:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Republicans in key battleground U.S. House districts are working to contain the political fallout that may come when thousands of their constituents face higher bills for health insurance coverage obtained through the Affordable...
  
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• Nordic People Say How to Beat the Winter Blues and Find Light in the Darkest Months

  08-12-2025 22:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Nordic countries are no strangers to the long, dark winter.
  Despite little to no daylight--plus months of frigid temperatures--people who live in northern Europe and above the Arctic Circle have learned how to cope...
  
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• No, Those Aren’t Really ‘Holes’ in Kim Kardashian’s Brain

  08-12-2025 21:37 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.
  The "holes" that Kim Kardashian's doctor said he saw on the reality...
  
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