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• Study: Keep Hydroxychloroquine Doses High in Lupus

  22-12-2025 19:13 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) doses of at least 400 mg/day provided better symptom relief for Taiwanese people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) compared with lower doses, with the added benefit of less risk for cardiovascular...
  
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• The Trick for Better Health in 2026: Keep It Simple

  29-12-2025 23:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The new year is a time when many try to start new good habits and commit to improving health and wellness.
  But resolutions, lofty as they may be, can turn daunting quickly with all the advice and sometimes contradicting information...
  
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• Vaccine Injury Advisors' Meeting May Portend a Contentious 2026

  29-12-2025 23:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A rushed, perfunctory end-of-year meeting by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) led to no recommended policy changes, but the event's public comments foreshadowed...
  
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• GLP-1 Agents Tied to Less Risk of Asthma Exacerbations in Teens With Obesity

  29-12-2025 22:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Adolescents with overweight or obesity and asthma had a lower risk of asthma exacerbations after starting a GLP-1 receptor agonist, a retrospective cohort study found.
  Among 1,070 patients ages 12 to 18, 5.4% of those taking...
  
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• NIH Neurology Director Abruptly Ousted

  29-12-2025 21:59 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Walter Koroshetz, MD, long-time director of the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), is stepping down after his reappointment request was unexpectedly denied.
  In an email to colleagues late...
  
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• No Added Benefit for Collaborative Care in Patients With OUD and Mental Illness

  29-12-2025 21:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Collaborative care, an evidence-based model to treat behavioral health conditions in primary care, did not improve outcomes over enhanced usual care in patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) and co-occurring post-traumatic stress...
  
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• FDG-PET Accurately Tracks Tx Response in Metastatic Breast Cancer

  29-12-2025 20:02 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Jennifer Specht, MD, of the University of Washington and Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle, presented results from the ECOG-ACRIN FEATURE trial, a phase II study evaluating fluorodeoxyglucose...
  
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• On the Health Docket for 2026

  29-12-2025 17:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Over the last few years, the Supreme Court has reshaped constitutional norms to align with its conservative leaning, with profound consequences for the nation's health. That trend is likely to continue in its 2025-2026 term...
  
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• Pulsed Field Ablation Safety Issues: Will Newer Devices Clear the Stumbling Block?

  29-12-2025 17:03 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In April, we reported on a study that raised alarms for safety issues with pulsed field ablation for atrial fibrillation. In this report, we follow up on subsequent developments for this technology.
  Pulsed field ablation (PFA...
  
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• Sleep Apnea Risk Linked to Mental Health

  29-12-2025 16:59 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) risk correlated with mental health conditions in middle age and older adults, a large Canadian longitudinal study showed.
  High risk of OSA was associated with about 40% higher adjusted odds of the...
  
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• Coffee, Chocolate, and Cellular Aging; Medical Aircraft Crash Kills 5; AAP Sues HHS

  29-12-2025 15:28 via medpagetoday.com
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  Theobromine, a compound found in coffee and dark chocolate, was linked to a reduction in cellular aging, researchers found. (Washington Post)
  Flu is surging across...
  
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• ‘Hospital at Home’ scheme aims to revolutionise NHS care

  29-12-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  Caring for patients in the community cuts costs and leads to quicker recoveries, says team behind Manchester service
  
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• 'I Don't Know How Many Died': What We Heard This Year

  28-12-2025 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In place of our usual "What We Heard This Week" feature, and as part of our year-end wrap-ups, we've selected some of the most notable quotes our reporters heard in 2025.
  "I don't know how many died."--HHS Secretary Robert...
  
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• The CDC Shooting Isn't What Broke Me

  28-12-2025 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In August, a CDC employee shared with us their experience of surviving the shooting at the CDC headquarters this summer. As part of our review of the past year's biggest events, they revisited this traumatic experience to shed...
  
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• The Year in Trump's Health

  28-12-2025 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Earlier this year, MedPage Today reported on President Donald Trump's diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency. Here's a look back at Trump's health through the year.
  Mysterious hand bruises, severely swollen ankles, and nodding...
  
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• Do You Really Know 2025's Top Stories?

  27-12-2025 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our year-end quiz
  
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• Lung Cancer Screening Based on Smoking Duration; Herpes Antiviral and Alzheimer's

  27-12-2025 20:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical...
  
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• Nutrition Policy Rang Hollow in 2025

  27-12-2025 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In early 2025, Daniel A. Zaltz, PhD, MPH, wrote about where the science stands on ultraprocessed foods and the public health response, highlighting that ultraprocessed foods appeared central to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy...
  
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• A Tale of Two ACIPs -- How 2025 Upended CDC's Influential Vaccine Panel

  27-12-2025 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In February, the regularly scheduled meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was abruptly postponed shortly after the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS secretary. In this report, we follow...
  
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• Addiction-Stricken Community Struggles to Continue Syringe Program After Trump Order

  27-12-2025 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind.--Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, "DO NOT USE." They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to shoot up drugs.
  The supplies...
  
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• Weight-loss drugs come for Fluffy and Fido

  27-12-2025 06:00 via ft.com
  If semaglutide can shrink a human waistline, why not a canine or feline one?
  
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• Dismantling the American Research Enterprise

  26-12-2025 19:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In April, Don Ingber, MD, PhD, wrote about his experience as one of the first scientists at Harvard to receive stop-work orders from the government, demanding that he immediately cease research on two federally funded projects...
  
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• GLP-1s and Obesity Cancers; Cannabis' New Legal Status; Celebrity Cancer Diagnoses

  26-12-2025 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- GLP-1 agonists may have little impact on risk of obesity-related cancers, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized studies. (Annals of Internal Medicine)
  The FDA granted accelerated approval for the subcutaneous...
  
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• Doctor's Orders? 'Belly Laugh at Least Two to Five Days a Week'

  26-12-2025 17:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Melanin Bee curves her spine like a stretching cat as she lets out a maniacal, forced laugh.
  The quick-fire pattern of manufactured giggles--"oh, hoo hoo hoo, eeh, ha ha ha"--soon ripples into genuine laughter, and she...
  
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• Medicare Is of Two Minds on Prior Authorization

  26-12-2025 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an agreement with Medicare Advantage plans to lessen the use of prior authorization, but the agency also said it would conduct a demonstration...
  
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• 'You're Not Crazy': AI Linked to Medical Professional's Delusional Spiral

  26-12-2025 15:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- When a 26-year-old medical professional sought to resurrect her dead brother online, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot tried to help by providing "digital footprints" from his life and reassurance that "you're not...
  
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• First Drug for Deadly Transplant Complication Gets FDA's Blessing

  24-12-2025 20:12 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA has approved narsoplimab (Yartemlea) as the first treatment for hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT)-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TA-TMA) in adults and kids ages 2 years and up, said maker Omeros on Wednesday...
  
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• Nick Reiner's Schizophrenia Meds; Depression and Heart Risk; State Mental Hospitals

  24-12-2025 18:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Nick Reiner, who has schizophrenia, had his medications changed prior to the killings of his parents, according to sources familiar with the case. (NBC News)
  The FDA recommended Reviva Pharmaceuticals conduct another phase III...
  
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• FDA Approves Mitapivat for Thalassemia-Related Anemia

  24-12-2025 18:19 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved mitapivat (Aqvesme) as a disease-modifying treatment for anemia in adults with alpha- or beta-thalassemia, a rare inherited blood disease that affects hemoglobin production.
  An oral pyruvate kinase (PK) activator...
  
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• 19 States Sue HHS Over Move to Curtail Youth Gender-Affirming Care

  24-12-2025 18:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued HHS, its secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and its inspector general over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people...
  
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