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• Private ADHD clinics are misdiagnosing children, report will say

  21-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Government review will recommend tighter regulation and more control of fees companies can charge the NHS
  
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• U.S. Cancer Mortality Declined 35% Since 1991, AACR Report Shows

  22-09-2026 22:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The overall cancer mortality rate in the U.S. declined by 35% between 1991 and 2024, resulting in almost 5 million cancer deaths averted, according to the 2026 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Cancer Progress Report...
  
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• Trump Administration to Remove 760,000 ACA Enrollees, Claiming Fraud

  22-09-2026 22:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled...
  
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• Study Finds Huge Regional Variability in 'Low-Value' Orthopedic Services for Vets

  22-09-2026 21:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- So-called low-value orthopedic procedures, such as vertebroplasty for patients with asymptomatic spinal fractures, may be performed on veterans at dramatically different rates from one place to another, analysis of Medicare data...
  
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• CDC, Epidemiologists Work on Definition for Measles Deaths

  22-09-2026 21:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The CDC is indeed working with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) on a definition for measles deaths, but the initiative was launched earlier this year and it was not at the request of the CDC.
  That...
  
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• Meta's $17.1 Billion Settlement: A Chance for a Social Media Natural Experiment

  22-09-2026 21:19 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- On August 26, Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over the next decade and impose new protections for young users of Facebook and Instagram. The agreement includes default time limits, overnight blocks, restrictions on school...
  
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• The Brain as Two Organs; Epstein-Barr and MS; Indigenous Bolivians and Dementia

  22-09-2026 21:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The brain may be two separate organs adjacent to one another, a study of progenitor cells suggested. (Nature Neuroscience)
  Low-field portable MRI provided clinically relevant neuroimaging data in both outpatient clinic and community...
  
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• Stem Cell Infusion Cut Fractures; Testosterone for Menopause; BMD and Cognition

  22-09-2026 20:51 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A single stem cell infusion led to a 94% reduction in fragility fractures over 2 years in a small study of 10 women with advanced osteoporosis. (Cell)
  Novo Nordisk's low-dose investigational CagriSema outperformed tirzepatide...
  
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• Rare Congenital TORCH Infections Tied to Greater Autism Risk in Kids

  22-09-2026 19:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A collection of rare infections passed from mothers to fetuses raised the risk of autism or intellectual disability in offspring, according to a Swedish population-based cohort study.
  Among nearly 3.7 million children born in...
  
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• What the 'Hyrox' Incident Reveals About Fecal Incontinence

  22-09-2026 19:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- This past week, the internet demanded that women in sports look more real, then recoiled when one woman did.
  In one viral story, female athletes criticized a sports-betting advertisement featuring actress Sydney Sweeney posing...
  
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• Progress in HER2-Positive Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma

  22-09-2026 18:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- After a period of relative inactivity, therapeutic development in HER2-positive gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (GEA) has evolved rapidly over the past 5 years, establishing a new standard of care that was supplanted by another...
  
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• USPSTF's New Cardiologists; Wrist Nerve Stimulator for Afib; Doc Impaled by Tree

  22-09-2026 17:31 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Cardiologists Ronald Karlsberg, MD, and Venkatesh Murthy, MD, PhD, are among the new appointees to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
  Inspired by the search for Nancy Guthrie, scientists find it technically feasible...
  
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• Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Asks Judge to Investigate Juror Who Wanted to Convict Her

  22-09-2026 17:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A lawyer for Lindsay Clancy is asking a judge to investigate the conduct of the lone juror who wanted to convict the Massachusetts mother of murder in the deaths of her three young children.
  In a motion filed Friday but made...
  
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• GLP-1 Lawsuits Over Eye Risk; Hospital Oxygen Supply Cut; Top Causes of U.S. Deaths

  22-09-2026 15:33 via medpagetoday.com
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  Dozens of Americans sued manufacturers of GLP-1 receptor agonists, claiming the drugmakers failed to warn patients about the risk of non-arteritic anterior ischemic...
  
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• FDA Staff Find No Major Concerns With Galleri Multicancer Early Detection Test

  21-09-2026 23:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- FDA staff members had no major concerns or questions about the safety, accuracy, risks, or benefits of the Galleri multicancer early detection (MCED) blood test ahead of an advisors' meeting that will be held Wednesday.
  The...
  
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• Congo Begins Ebola Vaccinations for Health Workers at the Center of the Outbreak

  21-09-2026 23:38 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Congo on Saturday began vaccinating healthcare staff against Ebola in Bunia, the epicenter of the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease in history as they are "particularly exposed and deeply involved in the response," the...
  
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• Selution SLR Drug-Eluting Balloon Gets FDA Nod for Coronary In-Stent Restenosis

  21-09-2026 22:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved the Selution sustained limus release (SLR) drug-eluting balloon (DEB or DCB) to treat coronary in-stent restenosis (ISR), Cordis announced Monday.
  This makes Selution SLR the only sirolimus-based DEB available...
  
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• Kennedy's New Autism Research Program Aims to Speed Diagnoses

  21-09-2026 21:58 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- HHS launched a new research effort on Thursday to change how autism is diagnosed through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), the agency announced.
  The Systems for Phenotypic Evaluation, Clinical Trajectories...
  
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• Meet This Year's Forbes Healthcare Billionaires

  21-09-2026 21:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Fifteen of the 400 richest people in America made their fortunes in healthcare--and four of them are physicians, according to Forbes' annual ranking.
  At the top of the pack is Thomas Frist Jr., MD, and his family, whose...
  
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• Kidney Transplant Disparities Persist With Intellectual, Developmental Disability

  21-09-2026 21:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Despite anti-discrimination laws, patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) were significantly less likely to be evaluated for or receive a kidney transplant, a Medicare...
  
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• Health Groups Up in Arms About Proposed 'Modifier 25' Rule

  21-09-2026 18:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A proposal from CMS to cut in half the payment for secondary services performed during outpatient visits is drawing fire from a variety of healthcare groups.
  "The damage would be extensive to practices who offer procedures and...
  
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• What a Pending 5th Circuit Ruling Could Mean for Abortion Pill Access

  21-09-2026 18:08 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- On September 9, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Louisiana et al. v. FDA et al., a case challenging the FDA's regulation of mifepristone (Mifeprex). Mifepristone is a highly safe and effective prescription...
  
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• Telehealth Companies Keep Exposing Customers' Medical Data. What Should They Do?

  21-09-2026 17:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The appeal of telehealth is easy to explain: Instead of calling a doctor, booking an appointment, and hoping to eventually get a prescription, you can log onto an app or website and get approved for a new medication within minutes...
  
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• Eyeball Tattoo Goes Sideways

  21-09-2026 17:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Eyeball tattoos can carry risk of adverse events that usually occur within weeks, but one patient didn't have problems until 8 years later.
  The patient had their conjunctiva tattooed so the white part of the eye would look black...
  
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• Gabapentin Use Rose as Restrictions Fell, Study Shows

  21-09-2026 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Gabapentin use jumped quickly in Michigan after the drug was removed from the state's controlled substance schedule in 2024, a cross-sectional study showed.
  From 2023 through 2025, gabapentin dispensing in the Michigan Medicaid...
  
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• Kim Kardashian's Diagnosis; Needless Mastectomies; 1 in 3 Docs Retiring

  21-09-2026 15:27 via medpagetoday.com
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  Kim Kardashian revealed she has esophagitis, an inflammatory condition that may increase the risk of the esophageal cancer that killed her father. (New York Post...
  
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• 'No Veteran Should Need a Passport to Find Hope': What We Heard This Week

  20-09-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- "No veteran should need a passport to find hope."--Marine Corps veteran Eric Jansen, of the Balanced Veterans Network, urging the FDA to consider psychedelic drugs for severe mental health conditions.
  "We've had a real word...
  
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• Doctors, Leave Your Politics at the Clinic Door

  20-09-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Physician-initiated activism has surged in recent years. The pandemic only exacerbated the trend. Have we crossed a boundary? Has medical education forgotten history and started repeating its mistakes? Can we rebuild trust with...
  
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• Remote-Controlled Urinary Sphincter Could Transform Incontinence Treatment for Men

  20-09-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A remote-controlled artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) has shown early promise for relieving urinary incontinence after prostate cancer surgery, while addressing one of the most awkward aspects of existing devices.
  Most currently...
  
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• America's Long History of Falling for Hucksters and Their Outlandish Promises

  19-09-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- America: land of possibility. And also: land of suckers.
  Our enduring belief that anything is possible--whether based in reality or not--has helped the nation become the world's largest economy. It has also led us to...
  
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