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• Tennis Legend's Cancer's Back; CDC Emails on RFK Jr. Released; Suicide Attempts Down

  26-06-2026 15:47 via medpagetoday.com
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  Calling the disease "relentless," tennis legend Chris Evert said her ovarian cancer had returned for a third time. (People)
  The Supreme Court sided with the maker...
  
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• 988's LGBTQ+ Hotline Is Relaunching. The Group That Helped Start It May Be Excluded.

  26-06-2026 23:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration is moving to restart the specialized LGBTQ+ option for youth who contact the 988 crisis intervention hotline, but the group that helped pioneer the idea is being shut out.
  The Trevor Project, the leading...
  
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• European Regulators Move to Revoke Avacopan Authorization

  26-06-2026 22:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A European Medicines Agency (EMA) committee recommended pulling the marketing authorization for avacopan (Tavneos) following a review over data integrity concerns in the vasculitis drug's key supporting trial.
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• What Journal Retracted a Hyped Cancer Study?

  26-06-2026 20:30 via medpagetoday.com
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• Scream, It's Good for You; Release the Cancer Pigeons; Talk of Chemo Rationing

  26-06-2026 20:19 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Every day begins with scream therapy at Camp Breastie for breast cancer survivors. (New York Times)
  Comedian and actor Moshe Kasher, who appeared as a sign language interpreter in episodes of "The Pitt," revealed he had surgery...
  
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• AI Smart Glasses Show Promise, Limitations as Aid for Patients With Low Vision

  26-06-2026 19:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Artificial intelligence (AI) smart eyeglasses as a potential aid for people with low vision produced mixed results in a small pilot case series.
  Using verbal prompts to guide the eyeglasses, study participants, all healthy volunteers...
  
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• Judge Blocks Trump Plan Limiting Graduate Student Loans in Nursing, Other Fields

  26-06-2026 15:58 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A federal judge has blocked part of a Trump administration plan that would have limited access to loans for students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy, public health, and some other fields.
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• I Watched My Friend Choose Death. Physician-Assisted Suicide Needs More Guardrails.

  26-06-2026 15:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- "Have yourself a good life."
  That was my friend's message informing me of his plan to end his life through physician-assisted suicide. His pancreatic cancer had progressed and was no longer responding to treatments. Weeks before...
  
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• Hemorrhage May Be 'Infrequent' Feature in Latest Ebola Outbreak

  25-06-2026 23:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In a departure from past Ebola outbreaks, roughly 90% of the patients testing positive for Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) had no hemorrhagic signs or bleeding at presentation, according to a preliminary report.
  In fact, the...
  
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• Dementia Risk Lower With Anti-Inflammatory Diet Even With Alzheimer's Biomarkers

  25-06-2026 23:38 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- People with Alzheimer's disease biomarkers who followed a dietary pattern with less inflammatory potential had a lower risk of developing dementia, a longitudinal study in Sweden showed.
  Over 8 years, the study followed a cohort...
  
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• Mandatory Flu Shots for Recruits Restored as Boot Camp Outbreak Sickens Hundreds

  25-06-2026 23:37 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Pentagon said Wednesday that boot camps for all the military services are once again requiring the flu vaccination for all recruits after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the shot optional for the military at the end of...
  
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• Is the Bar Too Low for Transcatheter Mitral Repair in Real-World Practice?

  25-06-2026 22:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- NEW YORK CITY--Real-world operators have been leaving patients with acceptable but still less-than-optimal results after transcatheter mitral edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER), with some suggesting moving the goalposts for success...
  
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• Gentler Regimen for HER2+ Breast Cancer Gets Good Grades in 5-Year Report

  25-06-2026 22:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Abbreviated treatment with neoadjuvant paclitaxel, trastuzumab, and pertuzumab (Perjeta) was tied to "excellent" long-term outcomes in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, a secondary analysis of the phase II DAPHNe trial...
  
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• Keeping an Eye on Hypertension Risk in the Ophthalmology Clinic

  25-06-2026 22:08 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- More than half of adults with diabetes had unrecognized or inadequately controlled hypertension detected during ophthalmology care, a prospective case series showed.
  Among 172 patients, 91 had stage 2 hypertension and 18 met...
  
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• We Have Antiretrovirals and PrEP. So Why Hasn't the HIV Epidemic Ended?

  25-06-2026 21:54 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Last week, the United Nations (UN) issued a declaration renewing its call to eliminate of HIV/AIDS by 2030, to be accomplished in part by boosting spending on eradicating the disease in lower- and middle-income countries. The...
  
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• Nurse Channels Ariana Grande; 'Tanning Beds Are Evil'; OR Engagement Ring Hack

  25-06-2026 21:14 via medpagetoday.com
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  Nurse @jobelusi got help from a patient lift to bring the concert finale of Ariana Grande's "Eternal Sunshine...
  
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• Democrats Press Trump Admin on Special Access to Obesity Drug

  25-06-2026 20:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Democratic lawmakers are pressing the Trump administration to disclose who received special access to Eli Lilly's investigational obesity drug retatrutide.
  Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) sent a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F...
  
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• ACEP President: Emergency Medicine Is Here to Stay

  25-06-2026 18:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The recent MedPage Today op-ed titled, "The Case Against Calling It 'Emergency Medicine" miscasts many elements of emergency medicine and emergency treatment in general. It fails to grasp some basic truths about why patients...
  
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• Bowel Disease, GLP-1s, and Colon Cancer; Herbs for MASLD? Managing Bile Duct Stones

  25-06-2026 18:13 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the use of GLP-1 receptor agonists was linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer (CRC), according to a retrospective study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology...
  
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• Police Search for Wanted Gastro Doc; Risky Surgery Suit; Doc Hit Dementia Patient?

  25-06-2026 18:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Police are searching for Louisiana gastroenterologist David Beary, MD, who is wanted on sexual battery charges. (WDSU)
  Three former employees of an Illinois hospital allege in a new lawsuit that surgeons put patients at risk...
  
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• First State Bans Paraquat, a Weed Killer Linked to Parkinson's Disease

  25-06-2026 16:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Vermont has become the first U.S. state to ban paraquat, one of the most commonly used herbicides, with lawmakers citing a possible link between the weed killer and Parkinson's disease.
  The ban has been widely celebrated by...
  
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• TROP2 Drug Wins Two New Indications in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

  25-06-2026 16:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved sacituzumab govitecan (Trodelvy) for two indications in patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).
  The first indication for the TROP2-targeting antibody-drug conjugate, supported by the ASCENT...
  
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• Hospital Worker Says He Ate Body Parts; Outbreak Virus Mystery; New N95 Mask Policy

  25-06-2026 15:28 via medpagetoday.com
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  In Hungary, a hospital orderly admitted to eating human body parts he got from work and elsewhere. (People)
  Scientists still puzzle over where the animal reservoirs...
  
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• Hospital Worker Allegedly Ate Body Parts; Outbreak Virus Mystery; New N95 Mask Policy

  25-06-2026 15:28 via medpagetoday.com
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  In Hungary, a hospital orderly admitted to eating human body parts he got from work and elsewhere, according to police. (People)
  Scientists still puzzle over where...
  
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• UK hospitals cancel operations because of lack of air conditioning

  25-06-2026 13:38 via ft.com
  Record June temperatures put up to 4,000 surgeries at risk
  
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• Hospitals cancel operations owing to lack of air conditioning

  25-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Record June temperatures putting up to 4,000 surgeries at risk
  
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• Hospitals cancel operations because of lack of air conditioning

  25-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Record June temperatures putting up to 4,000 surgeries at risk
  
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• Long-Term CAR-T Results in Lymphoma Confirm Early Promise

  24-06-2026 23:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Ten years after receiving a single dose of CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapy, almost a third of patients with aggressive lymphomas and no treatment options remained lymphoma free, updated results from a landmark trial showed...
  
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• ALS Testing Expected to Drive Sharp Rise in Clinic Visits

  24-06-2026 23:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Genetic testing of people with a family member diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) will greatly increase the number of clinic visits to specialized ALS centers over the next decade, a population model showed....
  
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• Midterm TAVR Data Turn Muddy: Will 10 Years Even Suffice for a Verdict?

  24-06-2026 23:36 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- NEW YORK CITY--It was increasingly clear that clinical trials alone won't tell the full story of how transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) performs in the real world, according to midterm studies presented here....
  
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