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• Supporting Breast Cancer Patients Through a Team-Based Approach to Care

  30-12-2025 17:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In "Beyond Diagnosis: Breast Cancer," Cleveland Clinic oncologist Tiffany Onger, MD, and host John Mangels continue their conversation on communicating effectively and empathetically with patients across the breast cancer care...
  
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• Mom's Extra Egg, Peanut Intake Doesn't Reduce Baby's Allergy Risk

  16-09-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Women who ate a diet high in eggs and peanuts during pregnancy and lactation did not lower their baby's risk of allergies to those foods at 1 year in a clinical trial among families with a history of allergies.
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• Less Frequent Colonoscopy After Polyp Removal Could Be the Way to Go, Study Suggests

  16-09-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Surveillance colonoscopy beginning 5 years after removal of high-risk adenomas is just as effective for detecting colorectal cancer (CRC) as a shorter 3-year interval, an interim analysis of an ongoing noninferiority trial showed...
  
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• Air Pollution May Influence Suicide Risk, Meta-Analysis Suggests

  16-09-2026 22:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Exposure to air pollution showed positive associations with risks for death by suicide, attempted suicide, and suicidal ideation, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.
  Across 29 studies, each 10 μg/m3 increase...
  
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• Contaminated Glutathione Injections Sicken Dozens in U.S.

  16-09-2026 22:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- More than 25 people across four states became sick after getting glutathione injections, and at least three were hospitalized, according to the CDC.
  All three had received intravenous glutathione, and one had to be admitted...
  
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• Aging Doctors Face a Patchwork of Cognitive Screening Policies, Study Shows

  16-09-2026 22:16 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Policies addressing cognitive decline in aging physicians were uncommon in the U.S. and similar countries, a comparative policy analysis showed.
  Unlike safety-critical fields in other industries, healthcare has historically...
  
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• FDA Warns of Serious Risks Tied to Misuse of Double-Chin Fat Dissolver

  16-09-2026 21:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Unapproved use of deoxycholic acid injection (Kybella) outside of the submental fat region may carry a risk of neuromuscular and other potentially serious adverse events, according to an FDA labeling update.
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• LSD Drug's Anxiety Win; Alanis Morissette's 'Psychosis'; ADHD and GI Issues

  16-09-2026 21:38 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Definium Therapeutics' investigational lysergide (LSD) tablet significantly reduced anxiety in a second phase III trial, meeting the primary and key secondary endpoints, the company announced.
  Meanwhile, Contineum Therapeutics...
  
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• People Fear AI Will 'Kill All Humans.' But What if It Can Save Our Patients?

  16-09-2026 20:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The New York Times reported this week that "The Trump administration is accelerating efforts to make artificial intelligence an integral part of medical care in the United States, throwing the resources and support of the federal...
  
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• Unprecedented PFS in HER2-Mutant Lung Cancer, but With a Touch of Controversy

  16-09-2026 20:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Progression-free survival (PFS) improved in advanced HER2-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) when treatment started with trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd; Enhertu) instead of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) and chemotherapy, a large...
  
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• Health, Defense Secretaries Pave Way for Ketamine Drug

  16-09-2026 17:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At first, the Federal Register notice set off alarm bells: The secretaries of health and defense were collaborating on emergency use of medical countermeasures for U.S. military forces--but they didn't specify why.
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• NIH Vax Harms Study; Dems Seek CDC Measles Briefing; HHS Pushes AI Despite Risks

  16-09-2026 17:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The NIH's new research center and a large study on vaccine harms is taking shape. (Science)
  HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made false claims during a speech at the Republicans' midterm convention last week, including that...
  
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• Oura will struggle to justify pulse-racing $16bn valuation

  16-09-2026 17:00 via ft.com
  The health technology company needs more than celebrity endorsements
  
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• Inquiry Slams Hospital for Failure to Protect Babies After Nurse's Murder Conviction

  16-09-2026 16:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- LONDON--An appeals court judge issued a scathing report Tuesday that found dysfunctional management and a "complete failure" to protect babies at the British hospital where neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering...
  
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• Judge Halts Trump Plan; RFK Jr.'s 'Wolverine' Peptide; Swapping Nurses for AI

  16-09-2026 15:31 via medpagetoday.com
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  A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction that halted the Trump administration's plans to limit visa length for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers...
  
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• Vax Beliefs of HHS Deputy Secretary Nominee Probed at Hearing

  15-09-2026 23:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Chris Klomp, President Donald Trump's nominee for deputy HHS secretary, declared his support for the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine at a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing Tuesday, but that wasn't good enough...
  
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• Psychedelic Drug Trials, Patient Safety Take Spotlight at FDA Hearing

  15-09-2026 22:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA gathered public feedback Monday during a 4-hour hearing about potential therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs.
  Most of the hearing's 80 speakers offered strong support for psychedelic medicine, highlighting its efficacy...
  
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• Hot-Button DCD Heart Transplants Bolstered by Survival Data

  15-09-2026 22:12 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In heart transplantation, donation after circulatory death (DCD) appeared to be a viable way to expand the donor pool without a long-term survival penalty, based on the first 6 years of experience in the U.S.
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• Fourth Measles Death Reported in Pennsylvania

  15-09-2026 21:57 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Pennsylvania officials have reported a fourth measles-associated death.
  The latest death involved an 18-year-old resident of Mifflin County, in the center of the state, the county coroner's office said in a Facebook post. The...
  
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• Novel Drug Cuts Risk for Death by 44% in Squamous Lung Cancer Trial

  15-09-2026 21:51 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Second-line treatment with an investigational anti-CTLA-4 immunotherapy improved survival in squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) compared with chemotherapy, according to results of the phase III PRESERVE-003 trial.
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• Alzheimer's and Liver Enzymes; Pivotal Trial Hold; Lasker Awards Honor Brain Science

  15-09-2026 20:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Baseline aspartate aminotransferase-to-alanine aminotransferase ratios were linked with faster cognitive and cortical decline in 2,700 Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative participants, especially among APOE4 carriers...
  
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• Drug Combo's Response Rates Top 90% in Small Cell Lung Cancer Trial

  15-09-2026 20:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Up to 90% of patients with advanced small cell lung cancer (SCLC) responded to a PD-L1/VEGF bispecific antibody linked to an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), a preliminary trial showed.
  Response rates ranged from 52.4% in patients...
  
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• Early T1D Screening Guide; FDA Clears Mint Patch Pump; GLP-1s and Fertility

  15-09-2026 19:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- An international consensus panel outlined the first clinical framework for implementing general-population screening for islet autoantibodies to catch early-stage type 1 diabetes. (Diabetologia)
  Another international consensus...
  
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• Study Warns on Multidrug-Resistant Yeast on Hospital Workers' Gloves, Gowns

  15-09-2026 17:59 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Transfer of Candidozyma auris from hospitalized patients to the gloves and gowns of healthcare personnel (HCP) occurred frequently, with extensive colonization at multiple patient body sites and shedding onto environmental surfaces...
  
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• Multidrug-Resistant Yeast Often Transferred to Hospital Workers' Gloves, Gowns

  15-09-2026 17:59 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Transfer of Candidozyma auris from hospitalized patients to the gloves and gowns of healthcare personnel (HCP) occurred frequently, with extensive colonization at multiple patient body sites and shedding onto environmental surfaces...
  
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• A Portrait of a Chart Note in Disarray

  15-09-2026 17:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- When was the last time you read, from beginning to end, a really long chart note that helped you take better care of a patient?
  Sometimes when I read a specialist's notes (and even notes of some primary care providers) that...
  
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• States Sue Over Rule That Could Deny Green Cards Based on Use of Health Benefits

  15-09-2026 17:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Democratic-led states and cities filed lawsuits Monday challenging a federal rule set to begin Friday that they say gives President Donald Trump's administration broad discretion to deny green cards to immigrants who rely on...
  
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• Crackdown on Immigrants Who Use Public Benefits Takes Effect

  15-09-2026 17:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Democratic-led states and cities filed lawsuits Monday challenging a federal rule set to begin Friday that they say gives President Donald Trump's administration broad discretion to deny green cards to immigrants who rely on...
  
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• Expanded TAVR Coverage; Point-of-Care Troponins; 90-Year-Olds and PCI

  15-09-2026 17:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- CMS expanded access to transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Gone is the Coverage with Evidence Development (CED) requirement for symptomatic severe aortic stenosis (AS), and newly in place is coverage for asymptomatic...
  
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• Mitch McConnell Returns; Anti-Vax Group Features RFK Jr.; Minnesota Doctors Strike

  15-09-2026 15:33 via medpagetoday.com
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  Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) returned to Capitol Hill on Monday for the first time in 3 months, following a hospitalization after a fall at his home. (CNBC)
  Montana...
  
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