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• Why Now Is an Ideal Time for Flu Protection

  04-10-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- It's October and time for flu shots.
  Medical experts urge getting a flu vaccination soon, before influenza starts spreading widely--and to get up to date on protection against other fall respiratory viruses, too. Updated...
  
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 'Better Informed Than Any Doctor in the Country': What We Heard This Week

  04-10-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- "It can give you a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country."--Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appearing to suggest that patients should have more confidence in artificial intelligence...
  
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• Ocular Myasthenia Gravis Scores Improve With Subcutaneous Treatment

  04-10-2026 20:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Subcutaneous efgartigimod PH20 (Vyvgart Hytrulo) met the primary endpoint in the phase III ADAPT OCULUS trial of people with ocular myasthenia gravis show, interim data showed.
  At 4 weeks, ocular myasthenia gravis patients treated...
  
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• We Keep Treating Resistant Infections. We Rarely Ask Where the Resistance Came From.

  04-10-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Every clinician who has cultured a resistant organism in the last few years has felt the same small chill: the list of drugs that will still work is shorter than it used to be. We manage it the way we manage most things in medicine...
  
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• The taxpayer-funded ADHD boom

  04-10-2026 18:00 via ft.com
  The growing private market for assessments is leading to concerns over misdiagnoses and providers’ soaring revenues
  
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• Improving Primary Care for Chronic Health Conditions; New Target for Asthma and COPD

  03-10-2026 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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• Investigational Drug Shows Promise in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1

  03-10-2026 19:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Investigational zeleciment basivarsen (z-basivarsen) led to functional improvement in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), data from the phase I/II ACHIEVE trial suggested.
  The analysis evaluated whether a larger group...
  
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• Lessons From a Year of RFK Jr. Disinformation

  03-10-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- If you think having accurate information about your health matters, then the U.S. has a problem. I know, because I've spent the last year working with a team to track Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
  
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• Florida's Dengue Outbreak Is Now the Largest in the Continental U.S. in Decades

  03-10-2026 16:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Florida's current dengue outbreak appears to be the largest in several decades in the continental U.S.
  State health officials reported this week that more than 250 locally acquired cases of the mosquito-borne disease have been...
  
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• Non-Covalent BTK Drug Wins Broad Approval in Most Common Leukemia

  03-10-2026 01:07 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA on Friday expanded the approval of pirtobrutinib (Jaypirca) in chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) to include the first-line treatment of adults whose cancers have no known 17p deletion...
  
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• Bird Flu, Actors, Unannounced Drills ... CDC Study Has It All

  02-10-2026 23:42 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Unannounced drills that used professional actors posing as patients exposed some gaps in how healthcare facilities respond to a potential infectious disease outbreak, according to a study of three jurisdictions.
  Among 73 drills...
  
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• Ultralow-Dose RT Quells Bone Pain in Myeloma, Preserves Bone Marrow

  02-10-2026 23:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Ultralow-dose radiation therapy (RT) provided durable pain relief from multiple myeloma bone metastases with few adverse effects and minimal impact on bone marrow status, a prospective clinical trial showed.
  Two-thirds of evaluable...
  
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• Retatrutide Delivers Substantial Weight Loss in Type 2 Diabetes

  02-10-2026 22:53 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The investigational triple agonist retatrutide substantially improved glycemic control and body weight in adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes, a phase III trial showed.
  Among 1,152 participants, average percentage of body...
  
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• More Medical Debt Linked to More Deadly Cancers

  02-10-2026 22:25 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Higher medical debt burden was associated with a higher incidence of late-stage cancer diagnoses, according to a cross-sectional study of U.S. counties.
  Medical debt burden had the biggest impact on late-stage lung cancer diagnoses...
  
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• New Poll on Vaccines and Autism: Here's Where Americans Stand

  02-10-2026 22:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Most Americans don't agree with claims that vaccines cause autism, and half view Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unfavorably, according to a national survey.
  In the August survey of 1,904 U.S. adults from the Annenberg...
  
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• Drug Used in Tennessee's Failed Execution Has Come Under Past Scrutiny

  02-10-2026 21:22 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The lethal drug administered in Tennessee's failed attempt to execute Christa Pike has been used in multiple states that carry out the death penalty and by the U.S. government after President Donald Trump resumed federal executions...
  
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• Gefurulimab Maintains Myasthenia Gravis Benefits Through 1 Year

  02-10-2026 20:52 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Investigational gefurulimab, a dual-binding nanobody that blocks complement component 5 (C5) activation, sustained functional improvements for 1 year in people with generalized myasthenia gravis, data from the open-label extension...
  
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