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• Transplant Care Can't Evolve Without Research-Informed Policy

  04-09-2026 17:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For clinicians committed to helping patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) receive the care that best meets their needs, care decisions are often constrained by systemic and policy-level factors. While the patient-clinician...
  
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• AI System Faster but Not More Accurate Than Docs for Diagnosing Rheum Disease

  04-09-2026 19:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Prof. Valmed, a large language model (LLM) cleared by European regulators for medical diagnosis, outperformed human physicians for diagnosing rheumatologic conditions in terms of speed but not accuracy, a randomized trial showed...
  
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• Rare Brain Disorder Gets Its First FDA Drug Approval

  04-09-2026 19:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved zilganersen (Zanvastro) to treat Alexander disease in pediatric and adult patients, the agency announced Thursday.
  The antisense oligonucleotide, the first approved treatment for Alexander disease, directly...
  
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• Alcohol-Linked Cancer Deaths Rising

  04-09-2026 19:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- While overall cancer mortality rates have declined steadily over the last few decades, cancer deaths attributed to alcohol have been rising, a population-based observational trend analysis showed.
  From 1990 to 2023, alcohol...
  
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• GLP-1s May Be Taking Our Eyes Off the Real Obesity Problem

  04-09-2026 18:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- GLP-1 receptor agonists may be powerful tools for treating obesity and cardiometabolic disease, but relying on medications alone risks overlooking the forces helping drive the obesity epidemic, according to Laura Schmidt, PhD...
  
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• Should Optometry Play a Bigger Role in Wet AMD Monitoring?

  04-09-2026 17:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- As U.S. optometrists push to expand their scope of practice, a recent British randomized trial suggested that community optometrists could safely play a large role in the monitoring of neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration...
  
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• Radio Silence on Mitch McConnell's Health Persists

  04-09-2026 17:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- It's been almost a month since Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last shared a health update, leading to another round of speculation about when--or if--he will return to Congress, but experts say recovery from pneumonia in...
  
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• 1,081 Injuries Tied to Device; Military's COVID Shot Probe; Teen Vax Coverage Slides

  04-09-2026 15:23 via medpagetoday.com
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  The FDA warned that Boston Scientific...
  
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• Off-Label GLP-1 Use Skyrockets in Young Kids

  04-09-2026 06:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Prescribing GLP-1 receptor agonists to children ages 8 to 11 years with obesity surged 310-fold since 2019, despite a lack of FDA approval in kids under 12, a large cross-sectional analysis showed.
  Among over 3.5 million children...
  
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• Is Paxlovid Any Better Than Placebo for Long COVID?

  03-09-2026 23:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) wasn't any more effective at relieving long COVID symptoms than placebo, according to a large double-blind phase II trial.
  At 90 days in RECOVER-VITAL, symptoms meaningfully improved among the...
  
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• Judge Sends Deadlocked Lindsay Clancy Jurors Home

  03-09-2026 23:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home without a verdict Thursday in a dramatic sixth day of deliberations. Her defense lawyer told the judge that the panel's foreperson said in a note that a single juror won...
  
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• Unruptured Brain Aneurysms Found in 1 in 15 Healthy Adults, Study Shows

  03-09-2026 22:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Unruptured brain aneurysms were identified more frequently in recent years, a systematic review and meta-analysis showed.
  In studies of healthy people who had MR or CT angiography, the prevalence of an unruptured intracranial...
  
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• GLP-1 Scripts Rising Faster Among Adults With Serious Mental Illness

  03-09-2026 22:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Adults with serious mental illness (SMI) received GLP-1 drug prescriptions at higher rates than those without SMI from 2018 to 2024, an analysis of U.S. insurance claims data showed.
  Among people with an underlying GLP-1-indicating...
  
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• SINGLE-AF Cardiologist; Sterile Needle, Every Time; Bonus Baby Surprise

  03-09-2026 21:59 via medpagetoday.com
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  "So kind of them to consider me when naming these trials," said cardiologist Amier Haidar, MD, MPH, in response...
  
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• Stelara Approval Expands; Good News in Celiac Disease; Curcumin for Adenomas

  03-09-2026 21:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA said it expanded approval of the interleukin (IL)-12/23 antagonist ustekinumab (Stelara) to include treatment of moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis in children as young as 2 years.
  Using pooled data from...
  
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• Dramatic Improvement in Dermatomyositis Skin Symptoms With First Approved Oral Agent

  03-09-2026 20:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with previously treated dermatomyositis had significant improvement in skin-related symptoms and quality of life when treated with the selective TYK2/JAK1 inhibitor brepocitinib (Lisraya), data from a randomized trial...
  
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• Why Dolly Parton's an Excellent Role Model for Doctors

  03-09-2026 19:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Dolly Parton died last month at age 80. Her death has prompted extensive coverage of her humanitarian and healthcare legacy. My big takeaway from learning more about her: Parton is a wonderful role model for physicians because...
  
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• Gloria Steinem on Women's Rights, Abortion Politics, and Being Called the B-Word

  03-09-2026 19:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In interviews and emails, Gloria Steinem shared with Associated Press reporters over the years her thoughts on social changes she had witnessed as a leading voice for women, the importance of abortion rights, and the correct...
  
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• Groundbreaking Pancreatic Cancer Drug Shows Promise in Lung Cancer

  03-09-2026 18:58 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The landmark oral RAS inhibitor daraxonrasib (Rasonque) showed efficacy in previously treated patients with metastatic RAS-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a phase I/II trial.
  Among 136 patients treated with daraxonrasib...
  
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• Afib Ablation Falls in New Sham-Controlled Trial

  03-09-2026 18:38 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Some techniques of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (Afib) did not hold up under scrutiny in new randomized trials, researchers reported at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress.
  For one, the fundamental...
  
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• Surgeon Indicted Over Shootout; $15M Asthma Death Settlement; Ketamine Doc Suspended

  03-09-2026 17:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Thomas Steffens, DO, the Colorado surgeon accused of shooting at federal agents who were trying to arrest him in Florida, has been indicted on multiple charges, including attempted murder of a federal officer. (WPBF)
  A New York...
  
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• Nurse Found Dead; New Moms Stirred by Clancy Trial; Tim Curry's Cause of Death

  03-09-2026 15:34 via medpagetoday.com
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  A nurse and her two sons were found dead in their Minnesota home in what is suspected to be a double murder-suicide. (People)
  The Lindsay Clancy trial remains without...
  
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• ADA Says Booted Meeting Attendees Violated Code of Conduct

  02-09-2026 23:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The American Diabetes Association (ADA) said it concluded its review of events that occurred during its annual meeting in June, but those who were thrown out of the meeting aren't satisfied with the answer.
  ADA hasn't made its...
  
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• UnitedHealthcare's 1,700 Prior Auth Cuts Draw Muted Applause

  02-09-2026 23:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- UnitedHealthcare's (UHC) announcement Tuesday that it's removing 1,700 more procedures from its prior authorization list was met with general approval, although some experts questioned how much of a difference it would make...
  
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• Risk of Paradoxical Hidradenitis Suppurativa in Psoriasis Varies by Biologic Agent

  02-09-2026 21:51 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The likelihood of treatment-induced hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) varied by more than twofold across different types of biologic therapies for psoriasis, an analysis of a large clinical database showed.
  The tumor necrosis factor...
  
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• Autism-Vaccine Researcher Says He Stole $1M in CDC Grant Funds

  02-09-2026 21:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Poul Thorsen, MD, PhD, a Danish researcher who co-authored key papers demonstrating no links between childhood vaccines and autism, pleaded guilty today to operating a wire fraud scheme that stole CDC grant money awarded for...
  
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• Psychotherapy Dropouts; Blankets for Anxiety; Mom's Depression and Infant Death

  02-09-2026 21:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A large study of patients with depression found that 28.4% dropped out of psychotherapy, with most leaving after just a single session. (JAMA Network Open)
  A Dutch drug addiction and mental health institute warned about the...
  
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• Fatty Food, Prostate Cancer, and Death -- A New Study Weighs In

  02-09-2026 20:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Regularly eating certain dietary fats, including animal fats, was associated with greater all-cause mortality in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer, a cohort study suggested.
  Among nearly 4,900 men, the highest level of...
  
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• Study: Chronic Pain May Really Be 'All in Your Head'

  02-09-2026 20:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- "Increasingly recognized as a source of immune cells in health and disease," the skull bone marrow also may promote and/or maintain chronic pain from elsewhere in the body, researchers said.
  Advanced imaging in 125 people with...
  
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• Doctors Groups Offer Updated Flu, COVID Vaccine Recs to Ease Confusion

  02-09-2026 20:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Leading U.S. medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this fall, banding together Wednesday to issue shot guidelines--and highlight the science behind them--saying they hope to ease...
  
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