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• Were Benzos Linked to Birth Defects?

  16-10-2026 22:24 via medpagetoday.com
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• Adult ADHD; Encouraging Advance Care Planning; Hospital Closures in the U.S.

  17-10-2026 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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• Healthcare Is Still on the Ballot. But the Debate Has Changed.

  17-10-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- As medical students in New York City, we spend our days witnessing firsthand how economics shapes patient care. Patients struggle to afford needed medications, battle insurance requirements, and wait months for specialty appointments...
  
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• Iowa Faces a Reckoning Over Water Quality and Cancer Rates in Midterm Campaigns

  17-10-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Iowa is facing a budget deficit, high costs, and economic strain from trade disputes that have squeezed farmers.
  But problems that have simmered for decades--water quality and cancer rates--have been forced to the forefront...
  
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• PAs Hoping to Ease State Restrictions on Their Practice in 2027

  16-10-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- As the year comes to a close, the nation's physician associates (PAs) are looking forward to pursuing their state legislative agenda for 2027, including easing scope-of-practice restrictions.
  "What's interesting about state...
  
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• ACOG Guideline Backs Early Hormone Therapy for Menopause Symptoms

  16-10-2026 22:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Updated guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) expand on previous recommendations and align with a growing cross-specialty consensus on how to manage menopause symptoms.
  For managing vasomotor...
  
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• OTC Alpha-Agonist Drops for Eye Redness Get FDA Green Light

  16-10-2026 22:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA announced approval of apraclonidine ophthalmic solution 0.125% (Brytly) as an over-the-counter treatment for eye redness related to minor irritations.
  The approval specifies use of the topical agent by adults and children...
  
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• Improving Survival for Adults With Sickle Cell Disease

  16-10-2026 22:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Life expectancy for patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) has more than tripled in the past 50 years. Life expectancy in the 1970s for a person with SCD was less than 20 years, with some estimates as low as 14 years. By 2022...
  
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• First At-Home Thyroid Eye Disease Shot Approved

  16-10-2026 20:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved satralizumab (Enspryng), the first and only at-home subcutaneous treatment option for adults with thyroid eye disease (TED), developer Roche announced on Thursday.
  The first-in-class drug is a humanized monoclonal...
  
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• Subcutaneous Risankizumab Induction Improved Outcomes in Crohn's Disease

  16-10-2026 19:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Subcutaneous risankizumab (Skyrizi) induction therapy significantly improved clinical remission and endoscopic response rates in patients with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease, results from the phase III AFFIRM trial...
  
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• Keytruda Biosimilar Advances; Oncologist Turned Patient; Will AI Cure Cancer?

  16-10-2026 17:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Zydus Lifesciences and Formycon AG announced FDA acceptance of a biologics license application for FYB206, a biosimilar to the blockbuster cancer drug pembrolizumab (Keytruda).
  The FDA expanded bladder cancer indications for...
  
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• Medical Societies Start Pushing Back on RFK Jr.

  16-10-2026 17:10 via medpagetoday.com
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  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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• Spontaneous Abortion Risk Higher With Some Migraine Drugs, U.S. Study Shows

  16-10-2026 16:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Women exposed to anti-calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) monoclonal antibodies for migraine prevention early in their pregnancies had a higher risk of spontaneous abortion, retrospective U.S. data showed.
  Among 7,100 pregnant...
  
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• Trump’s Grandkid Has Surgery; Doc's Execution Won't Be Streamed; Inside Plague Labs

  16-10-2026 15:29 via medpagetoday.com
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  Kai Trump, President Trump's granddaughter and a freshman on the University of Miami golf team, revealed that she had surgery for a wrist injury. (AP)
  In other...
  
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• Letters With 'Suspicious Substances' Sent to Congressional, Election Offices

  16-10-2026 15:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Federal authorities are investigating letters with "suspicious substances" that have been mailed to congressional and election offices nationwide and are urging recipients to treat the mailings as "potentially hazardous."
  The...
  
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• Are Med Students Cheating if They Use AI?

  15-10-2026 23:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- LOS ANGELES--Despite assertions to the contrary, students who use artificial intelligence (AI) in medical school assignments or elsewhere are not cheating, according to one professor here at the Association of Health Care...
  
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• Trump Administration Advances Plan for Peptides Favored by RFK Jr.

  15-10-2026 22:15 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- U.S. health officials are moving ahead with a plan to allow specialty pharmacies to produce certain peptides, a class of largely unregulated injections that have become popular among followers of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy...
  
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• Extreme Plastic Surgery Makeover Show Panned in New Documentary

  15-10-2026 21:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today's collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional's take on the latest viral medical topics.
  Two decades ago, makeover shows dominated reality TV, but one show...
  
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• Fast-Acting Pill Reduces Heartburn Frequency in Non-Erosive Reflux Disease

  15-10-2026 21:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patients with non-erosive reflux disease (NERD) who took once-daily tegoprazan--a novel, fast-acting, oral potassium-competitive acid blocker (P-CAB)--had a significant reduction in heartburn frequency, a phase III trial...
  
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• Novel Imaging Method for Skin Disease Passes Early Scleroderma Test

  15-10-2026 21:40 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- An emerging technique called spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) proved its mettle for evaluating skin fibrosis in systemic sclerosis (SSc), also called scleroderma, in an early clinical study.
  Comparing SFDI parameters...
  
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• Sickle Cell Disease and Cancer Risk

  15-10-2026 20:16 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The issue of cancer risk in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) continues to attract the attention of researchers and clinicians despite having been studied fairly extensively.
  Early studies, based primarily on case reports...
  
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• Where Can I Get an mRNA Flu Shot?

  15-10-2026 19:55 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For those who want to try the new mRNA flu shot (mFlusiva) this season, tracking it down might take some work, experts said.
  Moderna's shot was only approved in August, for all adults ages 50 and older, long after national retail...
  
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• Make the Diagnosis: What Caused This Patient’s Painful, Edematous Hand?

  15-10-2026 19:18 via medpagetoday.com
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• Night Shift Nurse or Ghost? Best Time to Fake a Page; Prior Auth Dark Ages

  15-10-2026 18:51 via medpagetoday.com
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  Is that a night shift nurse or a ghost? Intensive care unit nurse Blake Lynch, RN, got in the spooky spirit...
  
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• A New Medicare Season Begins, but Some Shifts Will Arrive in 2027

  15-10-2026 18:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Open enrollment for Medicare plans begins Thursday and enrollees will face a slew of changes that go into effect in 2027.
  During the enrollment period, which ends Dec. 7, people will have the opportunity to choose between traditional...
  
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• Alzheimer's Drug ARIA Monitoring: Real-World Study Results

  15-10-2026 18:33 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Rates of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) in Alzheimer's disease patients treated with lecanemab (Leqembi) in the real world were consistent with those seen in clinical trials, data from the LEADER study showed....
  
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• Perfusion Mismatch Ratio Predictive in Medium Vessel Occlusion Strokes

  15-10-2026 17:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For medium vessel occlusion strokes, perfusion mismatch ratio predicted follow-up infarct volume, a multinational trial showed, supporting a role similar to that in large vessel occlusion.
  In the 94 isolated M2-segment occlusion...
  
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• Doc's Husband Accused in Her Death; Lindsay Clancy Juror Speaks; HIV Med Scheme

  15-10-2026 17:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The husband of late Pennsylvania pediatrician Julia Pederson, MD, has been accused of strangling her and setting her on fire. (Local 21 News)
  Former oncologist Farid Fata, MD, is once again seeking early release after being...
  
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• First New Sunscreen Type in 25 Years Hits U.S. Store Shelves

  15-10-2026 16:54 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For the first time in more than a quarter-century, Americans have a new option when shopping for sunscreen: a skin-protecting chemical that's long been a go-to option in Europe and other parts of the world.
  The FDA approved...
  
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• Midnight Snacks and Liver Scarring; IBD Risk After Pet Exposure; Hep B Trial Hubbub

  15-10-2026 16:08 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Researchers found that late-night eating--after dinner or bedtime--was associated with a 28% increased risk for liver cirrhosis and a 36% higher risk for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD...
  
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