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• Ultrasound Can Aid Treatment of Vascular Complications From Cosmetic Fillers

  04-12-2025 22:49 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Amid a rise in the use of cosmetic fillers--commonly injected in the face for anti-aging effects--Doppler high-frequency ultrasound (HFUS) picked up "highly variable" findings in filler-related vascular adverse events...
  
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• Tai Chi for Insomnia; WHO Guidance on GLP-1 Drugs

  06-12-2025 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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• The Other Screen Time Risk We Rarely Hear About

  06-12-2025 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Schoolkids now spend an estimated 7.5 hours per day using phones, computers, and tablets--an all-time high. This screen time doesn't merely increase the risk of mental health concerns like anxiety and depression. It's also...
  
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• Nerve Stimulation for Epilepsy: Intracranial Versus Extracranial Approaches Compared

  06-12-2025 15:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- ATLANTA--Are neurostimulators implanted within the brain a better approach in epilepsy than less-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)? That depends, a researcher said.
  Real-world data from two large electronic health records...
  
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• Gene Therapy Also Effective in Younger Children With Inherited Blood Disorders

  06-12-2025 13:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO--The gene therapy exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel; Casgevy)--already approved for patients 12 years and older with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia (TDT) and sickle cell disease (SCD)--led to durable...
  
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• Study Intervention Cuts Preeclampsia Risk by 30%

  05-12-2025 23:37 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Planned early-term birth based on risk stratification for preeclampsia reduced the incidence of the complication at term compared with usual care, the randomized PREVENT-PE trial showed.
  Among over 8,000 women, term preeclampsia...
  
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• Bump Pay for Physicians Treating Medicare Patients, MedPAC Says

  05-12-2025 22:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) generally responded favorably Thursday to a draft recommendation to increase reimbursement in 2027 for physicians who treat Medicare patients--with one exception...
  
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• Resurrecting a Global Killer: ACIP's Hep B Vote

  05-12-2025 22:02 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Norma, a mother in Manila, noticed her stomach swelling. She thought she was pregnant again.
  Ong-Pin, a janitor in Hong Kong, turned yellow and lost weight.
  Hyo-Jin, a young man in Seoul, doesn't recall symptoms at all. He...
  
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• Early Results Amaze for One-Time Dravet Syndrome Treatment

  05-12-2025 21:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- ATLANTA--Young children with Dravet syndrome improved dramatically with a novel gene therapy, according to initial results from a phase I/II trial reported here.
  Among three children followed for at least 7 months after...
  
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• Cardiologists on Board With FDA's Proposed Food Package Labels

  05-12-2025 20:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The American College of Cardiology (ACC) officially backed front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labeling as the expected launch of the public health tool by federal officials draws closer.
  "FOP labeling provides a pragmatic strategy...
  
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• First CAR T-Cell Therapy for Marginal Zone Lymphoma Gets FDA Green Light

  05-12-2025 19:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with advanced marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) now have a CAR T-cell therapy with the FDA approval of lisocabtagene maraleucel (liso-cel, Breyanzi).
  Approval was supported by findings from the TRANSCEND FL trial and stipulates...
  
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• Large MRI Study Points to Sex and Age Differences in Knee Injuries

  05-12-2025 18:58 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Knee injury patterns on MRI were significantly different between males and females across age groups, according to a single-center retrospective study.
  Among over 13,000 routine knee MRI studies from four outpatient radiology...
  
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• Novel Drug Reduced Proteinuria by 46% in IgA Nephropathy Trial

  05-12-2025 18:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week meeting, interim results from the phase III ORIGIN 3 trial showed that investigational atacicept led to a 46% reduction in proteinuria at 36 weeks in patients with immunoglobulin...
  
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• Surprise Visit From Senator Highlights AASLD President's Push to End Hepatitis C

  05-12-2025 18:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the annual Liver Meeting sponsored by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), a highlight came during the President's Choice Lecture, where former NIH director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, joined AASLD...
  
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• Large Study Links Diabetes to Higher Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

  05-12-2025 18:15 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- People with diabetes have a heightened risk for sudden cardiac death, a nationwide Danish study affirmed.
  In an analysis of every single death in the country in 2010, the incidence rates of sudden cardiac death were 3.7 times...
  
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• CDC Panel Drops Recommendation That All Babies Get Hep B Shot at Birth

  05-12-2025 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- In a sharp break from more than three decades of U.S. vaccine policy, a CDC advisory panel voted Friday to stop recommending that every newborn receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
  Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization...
  
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• Leading Drug Fails to Slow Alzheimer's Progression

  05-12-2025 16:57 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Alzheimer's patients treated with the GLP-1 receptor agonist semaglutide (Rybelsus) in two phase III trials showed no significant improvement in cognitive or functional decline over 2 years compared with placebo, according to...
  
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• Enrollment in Medicare's Diabetes Prevention Program Has Been 'Pathetic'

  05-12-2025 16:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- When it launched in April 2018, the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) was championed as a key way to save billions by keeping millions of at-risk beneficiaries from developing diabetes.
  Some 16 million overweight or...
  
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• New CDC Leadership; The Business of MAHA; Eugenics Enters the Chat

  05-12-2025 16:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The following is a transcript of the podcast episode:
  Rachael Robertson: Hey everybody, welcome to MedPod Today, the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories...
  
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• Makary Claims Biden Team Hid COVID Vax Risks; Rabies via Transplant; 200K Kid Deaths

  05-12-2025 15:30 via medpagetoday.com
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  FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, said the Biden administration withheld data on the myocarditis risks of COVID vaccines from the U.S. public. (NBC News)...
  
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• Hearing in Luigi Mangione's State Murder Case Sheds New Light on His Arrest

  04-12-2025 23:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Minutes after police approached Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonald's, he told an officer he didn't want to talk, according to video and testimony at a court hearing Thursday for the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare...
  
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• At-Home HPV Sampling Endorsed in ACS Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines

  04-12-2025 23:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Women at average risk for cervical cancer can collect screening samples at home for human papillomavirus (HPV) analysis, according to updated guidelines from the American Cancer Society (ACS).
  That recommendation was one of...
  
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• 'Freebirth' Movement Is Dangerous to Moms but Reflects Real Concerns, Ob/Gyns Say

  04-12-2025 22:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Capitalizing on medical distrust, some influencers are selling guides to "freebirths"--medically unassisted births--and "wild pregnancies"--pregnancies without prenatal care.
  The Guardian recently published an investigation...
  
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• COVID Shots Tied to a Lower Risk of Death From Any Cause

  04-12-2025 22:29 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Young and middle-age adults who had at least one dose of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine were less likely to die of any cause in the following 4 years compared with those who weren't vaccinated, a nationwide French cohort study found...
  
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• CDC Advisors Delay Hepatitis B Vaccine Vote Again

  04-12-2025 21:54 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- CDC vaccine advisors again postponed their vote on changes to the hepatitis B vaccine schedule for infants, this time delaying it by 1 day after raising concerns about the precise wording of the measure they are considering...
  
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• Transformation of Lung Cancer; What the OR Team Had to Say; Microplastics and Cancer

  04-12-2025 20:37 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Authors in the Journal of the American College of Radiology discuss the transformation of lung cancer from stigma and fatalism to a new reality of treatment and long-term survival for many patients.
  Former "So You Think You...
  
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• Delayed Colonoscopy After FIT; Repeat Crohn's Surgery; Microbiome and Pancreatitis

  04-12-2025 20:08 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A delay of up to 2 years for follow-up colonoscopy after a positive fecal immunochemical test (FIT) was not associated with an increased risk of advanced adenoma, colorectal cancer (CRC), or advanced CRC, findings from a nationwide...
  
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• Cringiest Medical Errors; Docs, Nurses Recognize World AIDS Day; Hep B Vaccine PSA

  04-12-2025 19:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
  What are some of the cringiest medical errors you've seen? Nurses Karlie Tooley and Caitlin Armstrong read...
  
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• Cognitive Intervention Does More Than Defend Against Dementia

  04-12-2025 19:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Three ancillary studies to the U.S. POINTER trial collectively demonstrated that a structured 2-year lifestyle intervention for older adults at increased risk of cognitive decline led to better overall health.
  In main results...
  
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• Make the Diagnosis: What Do the Punch Biopsy Findings Suggest?

  04-12-2025 19:00 via medpagetoday.com
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