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• National care service could not launch until late 2030s, suggests Burnham

  30-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Prime minister admits scrapping pensions triple lock will not fund social care reforms until later next decade
  
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• Safe and Effective Therapies for Unfit Elderly Patients With DLBCL

  30-09-2026 18:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The average age at onset of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is about 65 years, and a significant proportion of patients will be 80 or older and frail or unfit.
  While chronologic age and tests to determine fitness or frailty...
  
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• Treatment Strategies for Richter's Transformation to DLBCL Are Evolving

  30-09-2026 18:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Richter's transformation (RT) occurs when chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) changes into an aggressive lymphoma.
  Approximately 2% to 10% of patients with CLL progress to RT within a median time of 2 to 4 years from diagnosis...
  
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• Poll: Rural MAHA Followers Say Trump Hasn't Improved Health of Their Communities

  30-09-2026 18:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- About half of rural voters identify with Make America Healthy Again (MAHA), a sprawling political movement championed by the Trump administration, but most said President Donald Trump's healthcare policies have not benefited...
  
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• National care service may not launch until late 2030s, suggests Burnham

  30-09-2026 18:11 via ft.com
  Prime minister admits scrapping pensions triple lock will not fund social care reforms until later next decade
  
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• CDC Raises Measles Death Count Again; MAHA Summit Takeaways; Kennedy's Vax AI Plans

  30-09-2026 17:02 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The CDC has updated its measles death tally to two, but it remains shy of the four deaths reported by Pennsylvania. (The Hill)
  The agency has lost more employees during the second Trump administration than previously reported...
  
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• CAR-T Therapy Shows Durable Benefits in Myasthenia Gravis

  30-09-2026 16:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Mivocabtagene autoleucel (miv-cel), an autologous CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy, showed benefits lasting 6 months or longer for generalized myasthenia gravis patients in the phase II portion of the KYSA...
  
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• Why Earlier Conversations About Long-Acting Injectables for Schizophrenia Matter

  30-09-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Bryce Reynolds, MD, at Carolina Outreach is a paid partner of Teva Pharmaceuticals.
  One of the biggest paradoxes in schizophrenia care is that some of our most established treatment options are still among the least utilized...
  
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• RFK Jr. Dumps on U.S. Doctors; New Chief at PhRMA; Physician Wins 'Genius' Grant

  30-09-2026 15:34 via medpagetoday.com
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  HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said artificial intelligence is "much better informed than any doctor in the country." (New York Times)
  Meanwhile, only about...
  
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• Social care shake-up without tax rises will force houses to be sold, Burnham warned

  30-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Expert says comprehensive model for England in which all costs were covered would be £18.7bn
  
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• Is AI Coming to the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit?

  29-09-2026 23:08 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Should Medicare's annual wellness visit (AWV) be less physician-driven and more artificial intelligence (AI)-driven?
  That's the question being asked by CMS in its proposed physician payment rule, issued this past summer.
  Although...
  
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• Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Now Questions Whether She Killed Her 3 Children

  29-09-2026 22:51 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Lindsay Clancy's lawyer argued Tuesday that there wasn't enough evidence to prove she killed her three children, a striking turn after a lengthy trial that focused more on her mental state than on whether she took their lives...
  
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• Fractionated SRS Improves Local Control After Brain Metastasis Resection

  29-09-2026 22:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Local control after surgical removal of large brain metastases improved significantly when patients received fractionated stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) instead of single-fraction SRS, a randomized trial showed.
  Surgical-bed...
  
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• Trump Administration Suppressed USPSTF Recommendations, Past Chair Says

  29-09-2026 21:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Leadership of the agency that oversees the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) suppressed the group's recommendations, a former task force chair said.
  The director of the Agency for Research Healthcare and Quality ...
  
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• Trump Administration Suppressed USPSTF Recommendations

  29-09-2026 21:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Leadership of the agency that oversees the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) suppressed the group's recommendations, a former task force chair said.
  The director of the Agency for Research Healthcare and Quality ...
  
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• Doctor Describes 'Liberating' Experience of Walking Off the Job

  29-09-2026 21:38 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Physicians at Allina Health in Minnesota reached a tentative agreement following a 4-day strike on their first union contract, which still awaits ratification. The proposed contract includes protections intended to allow physicians...
  
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• Alcohol and the Brain; The Next Alzheimer's Frontier; Mice With Human Brain Cells

  29-09-2026 21:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The New York Times looked at what alcohol does to the brain and what amount, if any, may be safe.
  Ongoing phase I/II studies of ifezuntirgene inilparvovec (AMT-130) in Huntington's disease showed continued slowing of disease...
  
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• Battle Over Cardiologist Non-Competes; Declines Well Before CVD; GLP-1s and Stroke

  29-09-2026 21:13 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In upstate New York, patients risk losing care as Ellis Medicine and St. Peter's Health Partners battle in court over the non-compete agreements of 27 cardiologists. (CBS6)
  American guidelines were updated regarding perioperative...
  
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• FDA Approves First Treatment for Rare Thyroid Hormone Disorder

  29-09-2026 21:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved tiratricol (Emcitate) to treat peripheral thyrotoxicosis in patients with monocarboxylate transporter 8 (MCT8) deficiency, the agency announced on Monday, marking the first approval for this rare genetic disorder...
  
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• Thyroid Drug Recall Most Serious; GLP-1s and Vitamin Deficiency; New T1D Guidelines

  29-09-2026 20:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA designated Vitruvias Therapeutics' recall of a lot of 30-mg levothyroxine-liothyronine tablets (Thyroid Tablets) as Class I, its most serious classification. (USA Today)
  At least six major U.S. hospitals have shut down...
  
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• Leading FDA Is an Impossible Job Right Now. Heidi Overton Could Still Do It Well.

  29-09-2026 18:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Before this administration, I never would have thought attitude and temperament mattered much when choosing an FDA commissioner. I now realize that it does.
  From the 1970s through 2025, all the commissioners have been smart...
  
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• Trump Admin Asks SCOTUS to Allow Trans Medical Care Restrictions in Prison

  29-09-2026 16:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to let it enforce, for now, restrictions on gender-affirming care in federal prison.
  The emergency appeal comes after lower courts blocked officials from immediately...
  
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• Sly Stallone's Bulimia; Recall Over 'Pest Contaminant'; Are Vaccine Skeptics Dumb?

  29-09-2026 15:32 via medpagetoday.com
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  Actor Sylvester Stallone, 80, admitted that his "obsession" with his body during the height of his movie career led to a "dangerously low" body-fat level of 2.6...
  
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• Boot Camp Promises a Submitted Paper in Just 2 Days

  28-09-2026 23:36 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- What if writing and submitting an academic paper didn't take weeks or months, but instead could be done over the course of just one weekend at a premium hotel with plenty of snack breaks?
  That's the promise offered by Research...
  
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• Unexpected Cognitive Improvement Emerges in Hearing Aid Trial

  28-09-2026 23:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A hearing aid intervention did not reduce dementia incidence among people with mild cognitive impairment and hearing loss in the CHOICE trial, but a secondary outcome suggested that it may have increased the rate of cognitive...
  
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• Still in Pain After ACL Repair? Supervised Rehab Superior to Exercises Alone

  28-09-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Young adult patients with persistent knee pain following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repair surgery got more relief from a supervised physical therapy program compared with self-directed rehab, results of a randomized trial...
  
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• Insurance Formularies Holding Up Lower-Emission Asthma, COPD Inhalers

  28-09-2026 22:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Commercial insurance formularies have posed a barrier to cutting greenhouse gas emissions from metered-dose inhalers used to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a study showed.
  Lower-emission versions...
  
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• Two Symptoms Linked to Antibiotic Delays in Presumed Sepsis

  28-09-2026 22:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with community-onset presumed bacterial sepsis were less likely to get timely antibiotics if they had gastrointestinal (GI) or respiratory symptoms at the time of presentation, an observational cohort study found.
  In...
  
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• More Medical Testing, More Problems

  28-09-2026 20:58 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- "So, Dr. Pelzman, what should I do about all these test results?"
  This seems to be a portal message many of us have received with increasing frequency over the past year or two, as patients are finding more and more ways to...
  
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• Few Lab Tests Actually Need 8 Hours of Fasting, Study Suggests

  28-09-2026 20:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Fasting less than 8 hours before routine blood tests generally did not change results, with few exceptions, according to an observational study.
  In paired within-person analyses of over 100,000 patients undergoing multiple blood...
  
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