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• Rare Brain Disorder Linked to Water Pollution Sources

  28-10-2026 22:09 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- People living near industrial facilities that polluted the water supply were more likely to develop progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare and severe neurodegenerative tauopathy, a study of U.K. Biobank participants showed...
  
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• Pharmacists warn AI-doctored photos used to obtain weight-loss drugs

  30-10-2026 06:00 via Healthcare
  Chemists caution over growing use of deception to secure treatments such as Mounjaro and Wegovy
  
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• Patients use AI-doctored photos to access weight-loss drugs, pharmacies warn

  30-10-2026 06:00 via Healthcare
  Chemists caution over growing use of deception to secure treatments such as Mounjaro and Wegovy
  
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• Here's What Congress Might Do on Healthcare After the Midterms

  29-10-2026 22:29 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- As everyone in the health policy world anxiously awaits the outcome of next week's midterms, some Congress-watchers are looking ahead to the next question: What will be on the healthcare menu when the House and Senate return...
  
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• Alabama's Frozen Embryo Ruling Didn't Change Disposal Choices, for the Most Part

  29-10-2026 22:21 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- BALTIMORE--Following the 2024 Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos could be considered children in the state, most patients at a clinic in neighboring Georgia didn't make different disposition choices about their...
  
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• CDC Says These Superbugs Kill 50,000 Americans Per Year

  29-10-2026 21:57 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Candida auris, Acinetobacter, Enterobacterales, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae topped the CDC's revised list of drug-resistant pathogens that threaten public health and demand aggressive action.
  The CDC's updated 2026 Antimicrobial...
  
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• Physicians Question Board Exam Results After Glitch

  29-10-2026 21:50 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Several physicians who experienced glitches while taking the internal medicine board exam on Aug. 13 are raising questions about their results.
  The key issue was being locked out of their computers following breaks, which the...
  
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• Live Webinar Nov. 2: What Will the Midterms Mean for Healthcare?

  29-10-2026 21:33 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- With the midterm elections upon us, many are wondering what the results will mean for critical healthcare issues, from affordability and Medicare to abortion access and vaccines. Will the election outcomes reshape health policy...
  
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• Intensified Adjuvant Chemo No Better Than Standard in High-Risk Colon Cancer

  29-10-2026 21:21 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Intensified adjuvant chemotherapy did not improve disease-free survival (DFS) compared with standard chemotherapy in patients with high-risk stage III colon cancer, the phase III IROCAS trial showed.
  The 3-year DFS rate was...
  
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• Judge Blocks Trump Admin's Medicaid Rule Forcing Sick Recipients to Prove Frailty

  29-10-2026 21:18 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Chronically ill people on Medicaid won't be bound by new work requirement rules that the latest Trump administration guidance requires in order to qualify for "medically frail" exemptions, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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• Halloween Candy CT Scan; Breast Meeting Manel; MD Debunks Colloidal Silver for Colds

  29-10-2026 21:02 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
  Radiologist Justin Shafa, MD, put his medical training to the test by trying to identify Halloween candy...
  
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• Supplements and Liver Injury; New Skyrizi Approval in Crohn's; Preventing C. Diff

  29-10-2026 20:25 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The number of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) cases in the U.S. attributable to herbal and dietary supplements and cancer drugs has grown over the past two decades as DILI cases from the leading drug class (antibiotics) declined...
  
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• U.S. Bans Imports From 3 Chinese Biotech Companies Over Forced Labor Allegations

  29-10-2026 17:39 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration said Wednesday that it is blocking shipments by the Chinese biotech company BGI Group and its affiliates, alleging ties to forced labor in China's far-west ethnic region of Xinjiang.
  Starting Thursday...
  
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• Nurse's Remains Identified; Surgeon Alleges Retaliation; 20-Year Telehealth Sentence

  29-10-2026 17:32 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Investigators used jewelry to identify the burned remains of missing California nurse Jasmine Gill, RN. Her husband has been arrested and charged with her murder. (People)
  Texas orthopedic surgeon Thomas DeBerardino, MD, is...
  
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• Chemo-Free First-Line Treatment Yields Huge PFS Gain in dMMR Endometrial Cancer

  29-10-2026 16:59 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Single-agent immunotherapy as first-line treatment led to a huge improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) in inoperable recurrent/advanced mismatch repair-deficient (dMMR) endometrial cancer, a large randomized trial showed...
  
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• Jalen Hurts and the Corporate Compromise of Team Physicians

  29-10-2026 16:27 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The recent medical crisis involving Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts has reignited a fierce public debate over sports team transparency and injury reporting. Framing it as a communications issue, however, obscures...
  
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• Butter Recalled in 10 States; Voters Worry Over Healthcare; New Organ Donation Rules

  29-10-2026 14:35 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
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  Plant-based butter made by Miyoko's Creamery has been recalled in 10 states over concerns for yeast, mold, and E. coli contamination. (ABC News)
  Meanwhile, a popular...
  
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• Injections for Achilles Tendinopathy Flop in Randomized Trial

  29-10-2026 00:30 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- High-volume injections to relieve pain and disability for patients with Achilles tendinopathy failed to demonstrate significant benefit versus sham injections in a randomized trial.
  With 192 patients assigned to three arms ...
  
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• RFK Jr. Eases Access to Unproven Peptides Despite Opposition From FDA Scientists

  28-10-2026 21:48 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration on Wednesday acted to ease access to unproven peptide drugs favored by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and FDA scientific staffers had little input on the decision and opposed the changes, according...
  
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• Another Win for Novel Drug, This Time in EGFR-Mutated Lung Cancer

  28-10-2026 20:03 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- A first-in-class bispecific antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) nearly doubled progression-free survival (PFS) compared with chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who progressed on third...
  
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• Couples Achieved Live Births Faster With IVF First

  28-10-2026 19:50 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- BALTIMORE--Couples who bypassed intrauterine insemination (IUI) and went straight to in vitro fertilization (IVF) achieved a live birth faster, a multicenter randomized controlled trial in Australia showed.
  At 7 months...
  
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• For Select AV Blocks, Trial Gives Win to Pacemakers With LBBA Pacing

  28-10-2026 19:16 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- For lower-risk patients with atrioventricular block (AVB) requiring substantial ventricular pacing, left bundle branch area pacing (LBBAP) was able to claim superiority in a randomized trial from China.
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• Review: 'You Can See Everything' Trains Its Lens on Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos

  28-10-2026 19:14 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Thirty-four days before the disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was due in federal prison to serve an 11-year sentence for conspiracy and fraud, she and her partner, Billy Evans, welcomed a film crew into their beachside...
  
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• Managing Hidradenitis Suppurativa in Skin of Color

  28-10-2026 18:43 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) disproportionately affects Black patients, who may experience more severe disease, longer diagnostic delays, and greater healthcare utilization, according to Julia M. Riley, MD, of Northwestern University...
  
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• Christopher Lloyd's Addictions; Antipsychotics and Cancer; Detransition Clinic Opens

  28-10-2026 18:35 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Actor Christopher Lloyd, 88, opened up about his struggles with addiction to cocaine, alcohol, and marijuana during the 1970s and 1980s. (USA Today)
  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly plans to bypass a candidate...
  
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• My Patients Used to Ask for the Doctor in the Hawaiian Shirt

  28-10-2026 18:28 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- "Can you get the doctor with the Hawaiian shirt back? We have a question. We'd like to see him."
  A family said this to a nurse in my intensive care unit (ICU). They had met a parade of physicians that day, and there was no doubt...
  
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• RFK Jr.'s Future With Trump; 'Metabolic Psychiatry' Appointee; Kratom Ban Backtrack

  28-10-2026 17:20 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- There are "zero" signs that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will leave the Trump administration after the midterms. (Axios)
  Kennedy is reportedly considering Shebani Sethi, MD, a psychiatrist who coined the term "metabolic...
  
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• Study Warns on Immunotherapy De-Escalation in Advanced Cancers

  28-10-2026 17:04 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- For patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors who had initial responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), reducing dose intensity did not preserve efficacy, an interim analysis of the MOIO study suggested.
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• ADC Scores 'Impressive' Survival Win in Heavily Pretreated Gastroesophageal Cancer

  28-10-2026 16:58 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
  (MedPage Today) -- Overall survival (OS) in heavily pretreated gastroesophageal carcinoma (GEC) doubled in patients who received an investigational antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) targeting claudin (CLDN) 18.2, a randomized trial showed.
  Patients...
  
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• ChatGPT Linked to Death; FDA Flags Cancer Drug Claims; AMA Fights Medicaid Rules

  28-10-2026 14:31 via MedPageToday.com - medical news for physicians
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  The parents of a 31-year-old software engineer with epilepsy who died in February sued OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT told the engineer to stop taking her seizure medication...
  
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