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• What Is the 'Barbie Peptide' and Why Is It Risky?

  27-07-2026 19:39 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.
  An unregulated injectable peptide popping up across social media promises...
  
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• Oz Declined Shot at HHS Top Job; Gene Editing Death; CDC Ordered Border Detentions

  29-07-2026 17:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, reportedly passed up an opportunity to step into the HHS Secretary's shoes amid a White House overhaul of the agency earlier this year. Here's how Oz gained the trust of the president, Robert...
  
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• Uganda Declares Itself Free of Ebola as Congo Continues to Struggle

  29-07-2026 16:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Authorities in Uganda declared the East Africa nation free of Ebola on Tuesday following the discharge of the country's last patient in mid-June, a delicate milestone as the virus continues to plague neighboring Congo.
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• Two Drugs Matched Three for Untreated HIV

  29-07-2026 16:36 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A two-drug regimen was noninferior to a three-drug regimen as initial antiretroviral therapy (ART) for adults with HIV, a phase IIIb trial showed.
  At week 48, an HIV-1 RNA level of less than 50 copies/mL was achieved by 89...
  
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• Fauci Invokes 5th Amendment; Medicare Subsidies to End; Blood Supply Crisis

  29-07-2026 15:30 via medpagetoday.com
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  Anthony Fauci, MD, on Wednesday invoked the 5th Amendment and declined to answer questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling...
  
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• Burnham opens door to tax rises to pay for social care overhaul

  29-07-2026 13:14 via ft.com
  Prime minister says he wants to avoid people having to sell their homes to pay for care
  
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• Even Short Bouts of Antipsychotics Linked to Diabetes Risk

  28-07-2026 23:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Initiation of antipsychotic medications, even for short durations, was linked to an increase in the prevalence of pharmacologically treated type 2 diabetes in youths, according to a Dutch cohort study.
  Among nearly 90,000 youths...
  
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• Trump Administration Weighs Overhaul of Doctor Payments in Medicare

  28-07-2026 23:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration is looking into alternatives to the current fee-for-service-based payment system for physicians who treat Medicare patients.
  The request for information issued on July 14 by the Centers for Medicare...
  
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• COVID Study Supports Antiviral Use in Kidney Transplant Recipients

  28-07-2026 23:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19 who received remdesivir (Veklury) early had a lower risk of graft loss, a target trial emulation study found.
  Compared with no remdesivir, initiation of the antiviral within 7 days...
  
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• Stop 'Harassment' of Fauci, Scientists Urge Politicians

  28-07-2026 22:28 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Ahead of Anthony Fauci, MD, testifying before Congress on Wednesday, a group of 155 scientists, physicians, and public health advocates signed an open letter calling on elected officials to end the "vilification and harassment...
  
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• Coronary Calcium Scores From Nongated CT Scans Predicted Cardiovascular Risks

  28-07-2026 21:59 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Incidental coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores extracted from nongated chest CT scans accurately predicted cardiovascular risks, a cohort study showed.
  Patients with moderate nongated CAC had significantly higher risks of cardiovascular...
  
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• Feds Delay Autism Meeting; Wildfire Smoke and Migraine; Mortality and MS

  28-07-2026 21:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- HHS delayed this week's Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee meeting after advocates voiced concerns that the public had only 4 days to comment on a 300-page plan to shape the government's autism research, services, and...
  
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• Thyroid Meds Recalled Nationwide; Worst GLP-1 for Hair Loss? PMOS Prevalence

  28-07-2026 21:13 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Major Pharmaceuticals issued a nationwide recall of multiple doses of levothyroxine sodium tablets, sold under the Major and Cardinal brands, due to subpotency. (USA Today)
  The investigational triple agonist retatrutide met...
  
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• FDA Staff Unconvinced Drug for Melanoma Shows Benefit

  28-07-2026 20:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Another attempt to win accelerated approval for RP1 (vusolimogene oderparepvec)--a melanoma drug candidate that's already been rejected twice by the FDA--could face tough going at a meeting of FDA's outside experts this...
  
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• Future Studies Could Expand the Reach of Hypercortisolism Treatment

  28-07-2026 19:50 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At ENDO 2026, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, experts highlighted the growing interest in understanding hypercortisolism beyond classic Cushing syndrome and its broader implications for cardiometabolic health.
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• The Physician and the Peripheral Brain

  28-07-2026 19:38 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- There's been a lot written in the media lately about the risks and benefits of deskilling.
  Smarter and smarter artificial intelligence (AI) systems are taking over countless tasks across every aspect of society, from the mundane...
  
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• NIH Funding Flows Slowly to Cancer Centers

  28-07-2026 19:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Last year, National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers were worried about losing their status due to numerous delays in the grantmaking process.
  More than a year later, leadership at these centers said the situation...
  
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• Autoinjectable Furosemide OK'd; Sodium Targets Flop; Cardiologist vs OHSU

  28-07-2026 18:21 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved autoinjectable furosemide (Furoscix ReadyFlow) for the treatment of edema in adults with heart failure or chronic kidney disease, MannKind announced.
  The FIND-AF 2.0 electronic health record-based risk model...
  
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• Johnson & Johnson Proposes $5.5B Talc Settlement to End Marathon Legal Fight

  28-07-2026 16:12 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to tie up remaining lawsuits that claim its talc products caused ovarian cancer.
  The drugmaker, which has been fighting talc-related lawsuits for more than a decade, said...
  
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• Federal Survey Shows Promising Trends for Youth Mental Health and Drug Use

  28-07-2026 15:51 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A key U.S. government report on mental health, substance use, and addiction showed continued improvements in several metrics, especially among young people.
  There was some uncertainty about the future of the National Survey...
  
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• Fauci's Diaries Released; Cold Brew Recalled; Carly Simon's Diagnosis

  28-07-2026 15:26 via medpagetoday.com
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  As Anthony Fauci, MD, readies to testify before a Senate committee this week, thousands of pages of his diary entries were released by the office of Sen. Rand Paul...
  
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• FDA Scientists Raise Questions About Duchenne Drug

  27-07-2026 23:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- FDA scientists said that investigational deramiocel, a stem cell treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, did not meet its primary endpoint in a phase III trial, despite data presented at the American Academy of Neurology ...
  
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• Lymphedema in Breast Cancer: Longer Radiation Course Not Better

  27-07-2026 22:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Hypofractionated locoregional radiotherapy for high-risk breast cancer was noninferior to standard fractionated radiotherapy for the 3-year incidence of arm lymphedema, with no significant differences in cancer outcomes, a Danish...
  
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• Mitch McConnell Update: Senator Not Medically Cleared to Leave Rehab

  27-07-2026 21:48 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The office of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) released an update on his health Monday, this time with a statement from the congressional Office of Attending Physician stating the senator has not yet been medically cleared to leave...
  
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• Oral Steroids After Tonsillectomy May Modestly Cut Kids' Pain

  27-07-2026 21:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Postoperative oral dexamethasone might have modestly reduced pain after pediatric adenotonsillectomy, a randomized clinical trial found.
  The steroid reduced mean pre-analgesic pain scores on postoperative days 2 to 8 by 0.72...
  
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• Effort to Unionize 10,000 Attending Physicians Gets Underway

  27-07-2026 20:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Some doctors are pushing to organize the 10,000 attending physicians within the University of California system, setting in motion what could become the largest union of employed physicians, organizers say.
  Factors driving the...
  
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• FDA Approves New Blood Test for Colon Cancer Screening

  27-07-2026 19:46 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved SimpleScreen CRC, a blood-based screening test for adults 45 years and older who are at average risk for colorectal cancer (CRC), Freenome announced.
  SimpleScreen CRC joins Guardant Health's Shield test, which...
  
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• RSV Preventive Agent May Protect Against Another Serious Infection

  27-07-2026 18:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Nirsevimab (Beyfortus) for preventing respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections may have a protective spillover effect when it comes to invasive pneumococcal disease, a retrospective study suggested.
  Among babies born in...
  
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• First-in-Class Drug for ADHD Wins FDA Approval

  27-07-2026 18:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved oral centanafadine (Simtriyo), a first-in-class triple reuptake inhibitor for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Otsuka announced late last week.
  The once-daily extended-release capsule--a...
  
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• Brain Worm Culprit in Woman's Hallucinations, Incoherent Speech

  27-07-2026 18:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A previously healthy 52-year-old woman entered the emergency department with a 4-month history of headaches and visual hallucinations. For the past month, her speech was incoherent.
  When she reached the hospital, the patient...
  
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