Medical Industry news

• Trashing the Health Dashboards

  05-10-2026 18:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Every day, in every interaction we have with our patients, our practice, our learners, our institution, there are more and more dashboards that we need to pay attention to, respond to, act on.
  In our electronic medical record...
  
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• These Nurses Are Running for Congress

  06-10-2026 23:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Voters in the upcoming general election--depending on where they live--are seeing nurses appearing on their ballots, even if they don't know it.
  At least 18 nurses are running for Congress--16 for the House and two...
  
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• Chemo-Free Regimen May Be Effective Option for EGFR-Mutant Lung Cancer

  06-10-2026 22:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A three-drug combination may be effective for patients with EGFR-mutant advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who progressed on a third-generation EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), according to a single-arm phase II...
  
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• Senators Probe RFK Jr.'s USPSTF Overhaul

  06-10-2026 22:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Senators are pushing for answers from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his recent overhaul of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
  In a letter, 17 senators led by Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) urged Kennedy to...
  
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• Brain Damage After Anesthesia; Obesity and Dementia; Alan Alda's Parkinson's Disease

  06-10-2026 21:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Atlantic profiled the case of a teen boy who went into surgery for his broken arm and emerged with brain damage.
  Certain language patterns during memory tests were associated with cognitive impairment in a study of digital...
  
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• Squats and Planks for BP Lowering; DCBs Compared Head to Head; GLP-1s for HFpEF?

  06-10-2026 21:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Isometric exercise training--such as squats and plank exercises--was best done three times a week for short-term blood pressure (BP)-lowering benefits, a randomized study found. (BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine...
  
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• Menopause Tracking Wearables; Teen GLP-1 Prescribing; Iatrogenic Menopause Risks

  06-10-2026 20:36 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- What menopause-related information can be tracked by wearable devices such as Apple watches? (New York Times)
  GLP-1 medication prescribing surged from 2017 to 2025 among bariatric surgery-eligible teens, yet 9 out of 10 eligible...
  
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• When Abdominal Pain in a Teen Could Be Colorectal Cancer

  06-10-2026 19:38 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A retrospective study presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics meeting in San Diego highlighted the diagnostic challenge posed by colorectal cancer in children and adolescents. The disease remains rare, but when it does...
  
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• I've Treated Sexual Assault Survivors. Being Heard Is Not Enough.

  06-10-2026 18:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Content warning: discussion of sexual assault. If you are in crisis, text or call 988.
  "Perhaps most important, we need to keep saying to anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: you are not alone. We have your back. I...
  
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• Vaping Plus Smoking in the Home Might Be Worst for Kids' Asthma

  06-10-2026 16:58 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For kids with asthma, household exposure to e-cigarettes was associated with poorer respiratory health, and the risk was even higher when combined with tobacco use in the home, an observational study showed.
  E-cigarette exposure...
  
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• How Russia and the World Are Responding to a Possible Case of Pneumonic Plague

  06-10-2026 16:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) says a possible case of pneumonic plague in Russia presents a "very low" risk outside the country as investigators look into what caused the death from pneumonia of a lab employee there last...
  
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• Pennsylvania's Measles Outbreak Is the Largest in Decades in the U.S.

  06-10-2026 16:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Pennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, state health officials said Monday, making it the largest state outbreak in more than three decades.
  The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, with...
  
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• RFK Jr. Launches Vaccine Injury Clinic; Outbreak Spreads; Starbucks Sued Over Claims

  06-10-2026 15:41 via medpagetoday.com
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  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new research initiative at the NIH to study vaccine injuries on Monday. (Bloomberg News via Union-Bulletin)
  Pediatricians...
  
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• McKesson and CD&R strike $5.8bn deal to buy infusion services provider

  06-10-2026 15:10 via ft.com
  Acquisition of Option Care Health is latest buyout of a healthcare services company trading below historic valuation multiples
  
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• Autism Linked to Maternal Health Factors

  05-10-2026 23:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Maternal health conditions during pregnancy were consistently associated with autism spectrum disorder but several factors varied across race and ethnic groups, a large retrospective study of U.S. children showed.
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• Private Equity in Medicine: At Odds With Doing What's Best for Patients?

  05-10-2026 23:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- High-profile bankruptcies of private equity-backed health systems, including the collapse of Steward Health Care, have fueled growing concern among physicians and lawmakers. While proponents of private equity argue that it can...
  
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• CDC Warns on Rise in Deadly Fungal Infections That Spread to the Brain

  05-10-2026 23:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Detected cases of a rare but deadly fungal infection increased about fourfold from 2023 to 2025 at a U.S. laboratory that tests samples nationwide, and the reasons why aren't clear, researchers said.
  The clinical reference laboratory...
  
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• New Guideline Recommends Hormone Therapy for Menopausal Symptoms

  05-10-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Hormone therapy should be the first-line treatment for women with menopausal vasomotor symptoms, according to new guidance from the American College of Physicians (ACP).
  Women with a uterus should receive estrogen in combination...
  
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• New Guideline Recommends Hormone Therapy First for Menopausal Symptoms

  05-10-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Hormone therapy should be the first-line treatment for women with menopausal vasomotor symptoms, according to new guidance from the American College of Physicians (ACP).
  Women with a uterus should receive estrogen in combination...
  
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• Low-Calorie Diet, Exercise Reversed Type 2 Diabetes Without Meds

  05-10-2026 22:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A low-calorie diet and exercise reversed early-onset type 2 diabetes for more than half of young adults, the randomized RESET for Remission trial showed.
  Among 96 participants, the intervention put diabetes into remission for...
  
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• McKesson and CD&R near $5bn-plus deal to buy infusion services provider

  05-10-2026 22:23 via ft.com
  Acquisition of Option Care Health would be the latest buyout of an undervalued healthcare services company
  
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• Heart Failure Report: U.S. Headed for Dangerous Territory

  05-10-2026 21:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In their annual report, heart failure experts pointed to worsening survival and disease trends unless the field is able to change course.
  According to this year's HF STATS report from the Heart Failure Society of America, the...
  
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• Stop Arthritis Patients' DMARDs Ahead of COVID Jabs? Trial Brings Clarity

  05-10-2026 21:21 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with inflammatory arthritis treated with biologic or other targeted drugs saw no increase in immune response to COVID-19 vaccines when the drugs were temporarily stopped in a randomized trial, researchers said.
  With...
  
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• Dramatic Improvement in Suicidal Ideation After Brain Radiosurgery Capsulotomy

  05-10-2026 20:59 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with treatment-resistant depression and suicidal ideation had significant symptomatic improvement after radiosurgical treatment of a brain pathway involved in mood and obsessive-compulsive behavior, a small clinical...
  
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• Doctors Retrieved Nails From Patient's Bowels

  05-10-2026 17:03 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- While most cases of foreign body retrieval involve the upper gastrointestinal tract (GI), a young woman needed a colonoscopy after she intentionally swallowed multiple nails, researchers reported.
  For a woman in her 30s who...
  
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• Doctors Removed Nails From Patient's Bowels

  05-10-2026 17:03 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- While most cases of foreign body retrieval involve the upper gastrointestinal tract (GI), a young woman needed a colonoscopy after she intentionally swallowed multiple nails, researchers reported.
  For a woman in her 30s who...
  
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• Nobel Medicine Prize Goes to 3 Scientists for Research Into Brain Activity

  05-10-2026 16:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- STOCKHOLM--The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works.
  Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, Peter Hegemann, PhD, and Georg Nagel...
  
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• Trump Announces $90 Payments for Seniors on Medicare Ahead of the Midterms

  05-10-2026 16:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- President Donald Trump is promising more payments to voters just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections--this time, to more than 20 million seniors, giving them $90 each to help pay for Medicare premiums.
  The announcement...
  
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• Mystery Pneumonia Death Sparks Concern; Trader Joe's Recall; OUD in Young People

  05-10-2026 15:39 via medpagetoday.com
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  A researcher at Russia's plague institute laboratory in Siberia died of pneumonia of unknown origin, prompting dozens to be quarantined. (CNN)
  Christa Pike has...
  
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• How the booming US healthcare economy is penalising patients

  05-10-2026 12:00 via ft.com
  A collision of demographic, economic and financial forces has caused a crisis in the sector
  
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