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• U.S. Guidelines Didn't Feature Government-Commissioned Study Finding Drinking Risks

  09-06-2026 16:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A study commissioned by President Joe Biden's administration to investigate alcohol-related health harms was released independently on Tuesday, after President Donald Trump's administration decided not to feature the researchers...
  
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• Dementia May Be Worse for People Taking Popular Supplement

  09-06-2026 23:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Glucosamine--a popular supplement used for joint pain--was associated with faster progression to Alzheimer's disease and worse survival among Alzheimer's patients, a retrospective study of electronic health records suggested...
  
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• Kids' Risk of Severe Respiratory Infection Rises With Comorbidity Count

  09-06-2026 23:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Having multiple comorbidities or being transferred from a referring hospital was linked to a greater risk of severe illness in children hospitalized with acute respiratory tract infections (RTIs), according to a Canadian retrospective...
  
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• First Guideline on Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome Released

  09-06-2026 23:16 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The first dedicated U.S. guideline for cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome makes a big push to unite primary and specialty care in managing large swaths of the population.
  The American Heart Association (AHA) and...
  
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• Stem Cell Transplant for Sickle Cell Disease More Cost-Effective Than Gene Therapy

  09-06-2026 22:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Non-myeloablative haploidentical allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is a more cost-effective strategy compared with gene therapy for treating sickle cell disease (SCD), researchers found.
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• Oral Small-Molecule Elecoglipron Tackles Obesity and Diabetes

  09-06-2026 22:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS--Treatment with investigational elecoglipron led to weight loss in people with obesity and improved glucose control in those with type 2 diabetes, a pair of global phase II randomized trials showed.
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• FDA OKs First New Sunscreen Ingredient in a Quarter Century

  09-06-2026 21:38 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For the first time since the late 1990s, the FDA has approved a new active ingredient for sunscreens.
  Approved as an over-the-counter (OTC) product for use by adults and children, bemotrizinol is a non-mineral broad-spectrum...
  
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• Brain Institute Halts Research; Parkinson's Deaths Fall; Meet the 'Dementia Rebels'

  09-06-2026 21:12 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The White Plains, New York-based Burke Neurological Institute ceased research operations, citing funding problems, The Transmitter reported.
  A global brain bank study illustrated how genetic variants were associated with Parkinson...
  
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• Cutting Through the Chaos in Primary Care

  09-06-2026 21:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Working at the faculty practice of a large academic medical center--the primary outpatient teaching site for 140 internal medicine residents--can be a tough place to inspire. They spend one quarter of their residency...
  
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• Drug Fights GLP-1 Muscle Loss; Unapproved Retatrutide Prescriptions; Protein Swap

  09-06-2026 20:57 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Investigational apitegromab--a selective myostatin activation inhibitor--effectively preserved lean mass when combined with tirzepatide (Zepbound) in a randomized phase II trial, suggesting it could help fight "Ozempic...
  
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• Trump Admin Warns Over 500 Hospitals to Provide More Pricing Info or Face Fines

  09-06-2026 20:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with basic pricing information--arguing that the lack of disclosure is keeping healthcare costs higher than they should...
  
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• Unproven Peptides Need More Regulation, AMA Delegates Say

  09-06-2026 20:31 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA must do a better job of regulating unproven peptides, members of the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates said Monday.
  At their annual meeting, the delegates passed a resolution directing the AMA to...
  
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• Medical Groups Cheer Court Decision to Halt $100K H-1B Visa Fee

  09-06-2026 20:19 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Medical groups are hailing a federal judge's decision to strike down the Trump administration's $100,000 H-1B visa fee, which would have limited the country's healthcare workforce.
  "At a time when communities across the country...
  
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• Here's How Experts Are Watching for Infectious Disease Threats During the World Cup

  09-06-2026 19:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A collaborative of public health groups are utilizing tools like wastewater surveillance to monitor pathogens throughout the upcoming FIFA World Cup, hoping to detect and prevent the spread of disease during the massive soccer...
  
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• Low Lipoprotein(a) Harm; Soccer Pro Collapses Again; Cancer-Related Ischemic Stroke?

  09-06-2026 19:31 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A low lipoprotein(a) level was tied to incident diabetes in the FOURIER trial. (European Heart Journal)
  People with 1.5 to 2 hours of strength training a week typically lived longer in a pooled cohort study. (British Journal...
  
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• Watching the NBA Finals? Think Twice Before Betting

  09-06-2026 18:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- I am a child of the golden era of basketball. I grew up watching Larry Legend (Larry Bird) and Earvin "Magic" Johnson duel through the 1980s. I was in ecstasy when my beloved Detroit Bad Boys dethroned both Goliaths, and for...
  
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• Medical Groups Pledge to Boost Nutrition Education for Physicians

  09-06-2026 18:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Nine accrediting and medical organizations pledged to integrate nutrition into their curricula and assessments of future physicians, HHS officials announced on Monday.
  "Over the last 10 months, these organizations have done...
  
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• Genomic Test May Spare More Patients With Node-Positive Breast Cancer From Chemo

  09-06-2026 18:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The phase III OPTIMA trial, presented at this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, showed that some patients with high-risk, early-stage, estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer...
  
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• CDC Trust Falls Sharply; Watchdog Flags Medicaid Gaps; Drug Targets 'Ozempic Butt'

  09-06-2026 15:38 via medpagetoday.com
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  Only 50% of the public said they nowtrust health recommendations from the CDC, down from 77% in spring 2025, according to a poll conducted by the Harvard School...
  
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• Tolerability Concerns for GLP-1/Glucagon Agonist in Obesity, MASLD

  08-06-2026 23:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS--Treatment with survodutide led to significant weight loss and reductions in liver fat in phase III trials of obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), but about a fifth of...
  
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• Flesh-Eating Cattle Parasite Spreads Beyond Texas as New Screwworm Cases Are Found

  08-06-2026 22:36 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Two more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside the main cluster in Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pest that could potentially devastate the nation's cattle industry, the...
  
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• NICU Babies More Likely to Miss Rotavirus Vax

  08-06-2026 22:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For U.S. kids born after the rotavirus vaccine was introduced, recommendations against administration in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) appeared to be a strong barrier to getting immunized, researchers reported.
  Children...
  
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• Primitive Reflexes May Predict Dementia

  08-06-2026 22:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Primitive or regressive reflexes--known as frontal release signs--later in life were associated with increased dementia risk, a longitudinal study of cognitively normal older adults showed.
  In adults with intact cognition...
  
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• Large Study Links GLP-1s to Lower Risk of Multiple Cancers

  08-06-2026 21:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients taking GLP-1 receptor agonists for obesity had a 41% lower risk of obesity-related cancers as compared with patients treated with diet or exercise, a large propensity-matched cohort study showed.
  After 2 years of follow...
  
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• GLP-1, Amylin Analog Combo Cuts Blood Sugar, Weight in Diabetes Trials

  08-06-2026 21:35 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS--A fixed-dose combination of novel amylin analog cagrilintide and semaglutide, given once weekly, lowered blood glucose and weight in various populations with type 2 diabetes.
  The combination injectable, dubbed...
  
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• Leaders Resign From ADA After Experts Booted From Meeting

  08-06-2026 21:02 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS--In the wake of clinicians and researchers being kicked out of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting here, at least two of the organization's leaders have resigned.
  President-Elect Jennifer Green, MD...
  
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• Maternal RSV Vaccine Linked to Lower Risk of Infant Hospitalization

  08-06-2026 21:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination during pregnancy was effective at preventing infants from being hospitalized with RSV-associated acute respiratory illness (ARI) in a real-world setting, according to a retrospective...
  
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• One 'Lucky' Patient Swallowed This Object 20 Years Earlier

  08-06-2026 19:16 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- While ingestion of foreign bodies is far more common in children, adults have their share of incidents. Take this case of a 40-year-old man who, after questioning by clinicians, revealed what he'd swallowed while drinking with...
  
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• What Vitamin K Shot Refusals Are Really Telling Us

  08-06-2026 19:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A ProPublica investigation published last month documented something troubling: parents across the country are declining a simple vitamin K shot for their newborns, and some of those babies are dying of preventable hemorrhages...
  
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• Monthly GLP-1 for Obesity Promising as More Manageable Alternative

  08-06-2026 19:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS--Injections of an ultra-long-acting investigational GLP-1 agonist led to significant weight loss in people with overweight or obesity, with reductions continuing after a switch to once-monthly dosing, according...
  
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