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• No Benefit of Routine CT Angiography After Ruling Out a Heart Attack

  31-08-2026 20:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- After ruling out a myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS), routine use of CT coronary angiography to guide management did not reduce subsequent cardiac events compared with standard...
  
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• ADA Says Booted Meeting Attendees Violated Code of Conduct

  02-09-2026 23:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The American Diabetes Association (ADA) said it concluded its review of events that occurred during its annual meeting in June, but those who were thrown out of the meeting aren't satisfied with the answer.
  ADA hasn't made its...
  
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• UnitedHealthcare's 1,700 Prior Auth Cuts Draw Muted Applause

  02-09-2026 23:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- UnitedHealthcare's (UHC) announcement Tuesday that it's removing 1,700 more procedures from its prior authorization list was met with general approval, although some experts questioned how much of a difference it would make...
  
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• Risk of Paradoxical Hidradenitis Suppurativa in Psoriasis Varies by Biologic Agent

  02-09-2026 21:51 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The likelihood of treatment-induced hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) varied by more than twofold across different types of biologic therapies for psoriasis, an analysis of a large clinical database showed.
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• Autism-Vaccine Researcher Says He Stole $1M in CDC Grant Funds

  02-09-2026 21:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Poul Thorsen, MD, PhD, a Danish researcher who co-authored key papers demonstrating no links between childhood vaccines and autism, pleaded guilty today to operating a wire fraud scheme that stole CDC grant money awarded for...
  
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• Psychotherapy Dropouts; Blankets for Anxiety; Mom's Depression and Infant Death

  02-09-2026 21:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A large study of patients with depression found that 28.4% dropped out of psychotherapy, with most leaving after just a single session. (JAMA Network Open)
  A Dutch drug addiction and mental health institute warned about the...
  
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• Fatty Food, Prostate Cancer, and Death -- A New Study Weighs In

  02-09-2026 20:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Regularly eating certain dietary fats, including animal fats, was associated with greater all-cause mortality in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer, a cohort study suggested.
  Among nearly 4,900 men, the highest level of...
  
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• Study: Chronic Pain May Really Be 'All in Your Head'

  02-09-2026 20:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- "Increasingly recognized as a source of immune cells in health and disease," the skull bone marrow also may promote and/or maintain chronic pain from elsewhere in the body, researchers said.
  Advanced imaging in 125 people with...
  
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• Doctors Groups Offer Updated Flu, COVID Vaccine Recs to Ease Confusion

  02-09-2026 20:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Leading U.S. medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this fall, banding together Wednesday to issue shot guidelines--and highlight the science behind them--saying they hope to ease...
  
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• Ketamine Showed Antidepressive Effects in Refractory Bipolar Depression

  02-09-2026 19:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Adjunctive ketamine showed significant antidepressive effects in patients with treatment-resistant bipolar depression in a small randomized trial.
  Among 63 adult outpatients with treatment-resistant bipolar I or II depression...
  
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• Harvard's Cadaver Scandal Broke a Covenant Medicine Depends On

  02-09-2026 18:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- There is an old and intimate covenant at the heart of medical education.
  A person decides that, after death, their body will still have something left to give. A family agrees to surrender the remains of someone they love so...
  
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• Family in PA Measles Death Speaks; Political Appointees Flood HHS; Email Defense

  02-09-2026 18:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Amish parents of the newborn who likely died of measles-related causes had no clue their son's death was national news, let alone a political flashpoint. Measles had been ravaging their Pennsylvania community; all of their...
  
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• Denervation Shows Potential in Heart Failure-Related Pulmonary Hypertension

  02-09-2026 18:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Adding pulmonary-artery denervation to guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) reduced clinical worsening in patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with left heart disease and heart failure, results of a Chinese randomized...
  
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• Sad Trial Names: Social Media Thinks Cardiology Is Going Through It

  02-09-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Cardiology is going through it--so say commenters on social media, at least.
  During last week's European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in Munich, a trial name caught attendees' eyes: SINGLE-AF.
  The trial, about oral...
  
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• Ebola Outbreak Deaths Top 3,000

  02-09-2026 16:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 3,000 people out of over 6,100 confirmed cases, the latest government data showed Wednesday, as the disease is spreading at an unprecedented speed, faster than efforts to track and...
  
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• Pesticide Found in Supplement; Brain-Eating Amoeba Kills Teen; B12 and Birth Defects

  02-09-2026 15:21 via medpagetoday.com
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  The FDA said a supplement promoted and sold for weight loss (Lipofit Extreme Fat Burner 2.0) was recalled after an agency analysis showed tablets were tainted with...
  
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• AAP Releases RSV Prevention, COVID Vax Recommendations for Fall

  02-09-2026 13:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) updated its recommendations for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and the use of COVID vaccines in kids.
  Based on a technical report detailing the current evidence on...
  
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• Mbappé-backed health start-up expands to west Africa

  02-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Deal to buy Senegalese insurer Tanel comes months after fundraising valued France’s Alan at €5.5bn
  
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• People With Unexplained Fainting Finally Get Some Answers With Take-Home Device

  01-09-2026 23:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For people going to emergency departments (EDs) for syncope, an extended ECG monitoring protocol made an eventual diagnosis more likely even though their fainting frequency was ultimately unchanged, according to the ASPIRED trial...
  
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• Infective Endocarditis Trial Backs Less Intense Antibiotic Approach

  01-09-2026 23:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Shorter antibiotic treatment worked better in clinically stabilized patients with infective endocarditis on the left side of the heart, even though the risk of infection relapse may be greater, according to the open-label randomized...
  
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• Nurse Who Saved Baby in Pakistan Hospital Fire Wishes She Could Have Saved the Rest

  01-09-2026 23:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Razia Noreen and her colleagues had just checked on the 15 newborns in their care at the hospital nursery in Islamabad and were preparing injections for some of them in an adjacent room when she noticed something unusual: flames...
  
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• As GLP-1 Use Expands Into Dermatology, So Do the Medicolegal Implications

  01-09-2026 22:50 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Medical liability cases involving GLP-1 receptor agonist use in dermatology have occurred infrequently to date but warrant careful attention as the use increases, a medicolegal review suggests.
  A review of the LexisNexis legal...
  
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• Judge Tells Lindsay Clancy Jury to Keep Deliberating After Non-Unanimous Decision

  01-09-2026 21:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial said Tuesday they've been unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether the Massachusetts mother was criminally responsible for killing her three young children, but the judge told them to...
  
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• Mounjaro's Label Expands; Type 1 Diabetes on the Rise; Testosterone and Afib

  01-09-2026 21:19 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA expanded the indication for tirzepatide (Mounjaro) to include reducing the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in high-risk adults with type 2 diabetes, Eli Lilly announced.
  Global type 1 diabetes prevalence...
  
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• Alzheimer's Genetic Risk; Underreported Dementia; Exercise or Nap After Sleep Loss?

  01-09-2026 21:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A new APOE-independent multi-ancestry polygenic risk score for Alzheimer's disease was associated with cognitive decline and neuropathological hallmarks in a study of diverse populations. (Nature Genetics)
  Diabetes-related cortical...
  
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• Is the Push for Med Student Research Predatory?

  01-09-2026 21:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Medical students are conducting more research than ever before, but does this make them better doctors or improve the field of medicine?
  Physicians have been debating these questions online after William Flanary, MD, an ophthalmologist...
  
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• New MI Definition; Lipid-Lowering Advances; Former ESC Prez's Misconduct?

  01-09-2026 20:59 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI) now falls into one of three types: primary, secondary, or procedure-related, based on the new Fifth Universal Definition. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology)
  Eli Lilly announced...
  
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• Plozasiran Notches Big Wins in Severe Hypertriglyceridemia

  01-09-2026 20:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Treatment with plozasiran (Redemplo) significantly reduced triglycerides among patients with severe hypertriglyceridemia, two phase III studies showed.
  Compared with placebo, the small interfering RNA therapy reduced triglycerides...
  
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• FDA Adds Boxed Warning to Iron Replacement Injection

  01-09-2026 20:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved a label change for ferric carboxymaltose injection (Injectafer) that adds a boxed warning for the risk of symptomatic hypophosphatemia.
  The agency recommends monitoring of phosphate levels in patients at risk...
  
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• Doctor Sues Over Residency Application System

  01-09-2026 19:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A physician is bringing antitrust claims against the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for what she alleges is a monopoly over the residency application process that's gouging doctors.
  Kaitlin Buhrke, DO, a general...
  
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