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• Yet Another Administrative Burden for Doctors: Medicaid Work Requirements

  23-06-2026 18:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Imagine three patient scenarios.
  In one, a physician receives a MyChart message from a cancer patient who can no longer access her medications or even make a follow up appointment because her "medical frailty exemption" was...
  
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• White House Denies Trump Got Unapproved Obesity Drug

  23-06-2026 21:58 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The White House aggressively denied a report that implied President Trump may have received the investigational obesity medication retatrutide.
  STAT on Tuesday reported that Eli Lilly and the FDA granted one request for compassionate...
  
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• Quarantine Comes to an End for Last Hantavirus Ship Passengers in Nebraska

  23-06-2026 21:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- OMAHA, Nebraska--The last eight American passengers who endured 42 days in a specialized hospital quarantine unit after exposure to an unusual hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that killed three people have left the Nebraska...
  
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• FDA Greenlights Generic Rifapentine for Tuberculosis

  23-06-2026 20:44 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved the first generic version of rifapentine (Priftin) to treat active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in adolescents and adults, as well as latent TB infection in patients as young as 2 years.
  The generic rifamycin...
  
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• Pacemakers and Mental Issues; Cardio-Oncology Gaps; Sugar Unlocks Veggie Benefits?

  23-06-2026 20:26 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Pacemaker and implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator implants were associated with increased risks of mental disorders among young adult recipients in Korea. (Journal of the American Heart Association)
  The FDA is hosting...
  
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• FDA Reverses Course on Neuro Drugs; Omega-3s and Dementia; Brain Death Test Lawsuit

  23-06-2026 20:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Gene therapy developer uniQure said it will submit a marketing application for accelerated approval for investigational AMT-130 for Huntington's disease after the FDA reversed its position and agreed that a 3-year analysis of...
  
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• Cardiologist Charged in $89M Fraud Case Amid Trump Administration's Crackdown

  23-06-2026 19:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The Justice Department has charged a Texas doctor in an $89 million healthcare fraud scheme, accusing him of billing insurers for medically unnecessary cardiovascular screening tests for college student-athletes and then rubber...
  
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• Defining the Role of Oral SERDs in Frontline Metastatic Breast Cancer

  23-06-2026 18:15 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, results from the phase III persevERA BC trial did not show a statistically significant progression-free survival (PFS) benefit with the investigational oral selective...
  
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• T-DXd in Early HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

  23-06-2026 18:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Recent approvals of trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd; Enhertu) in early HER2-positive breast cancer have created new questions about its optimal use in the neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings.
  MedPage Today brought together three...
  
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• Surgery Bests Meds for Recurrent Sinus Inflammation

  23-06-2026 16:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For patients with recurrent acute rhinosinusitis, endoscopic sinus surgery improved quality of life related to the condition, whereas conservative medical treatment alone did little, a small randomized trial showed.
  Improvement...
  
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• 'The Pitt' Actor's Cancer Diagnosis; New HHS Research Plans; Madonna Reveals Injury

  23-06-2026 15:39 via medpagetoday.com
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  Actor Moshe Kasher of "The Pitt" said he underwent surgery for early oropharyngeal cancer last week. (USA Today)
  HHS announced plans to accelerate early clinical...
  
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• Nvidia’s Kimberly Powell: We are reinventing the doctor experience

  23-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The chipmaker’s head of healthcare argues AI can ease many of the sector’s ills, including reducing medics’ workload and tackling the shortage of trained staff
  
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• Patient Portal Messages Have Spiked Since 2020

  22-06-2026 23:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Patient portal messaging has surged in recent years, signaling a significant change in the way physicians deliver care, a cross-sectional analysis of electronic health record data showed.
  In an analysis of national data from...
  
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• CIN2 Lesions May Not Need Immediate Treatment

  22-06-2026 23:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Delaying treatment for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 (CIN2) wasn't linked to increased cancer risk at 3 years and may reduce unnecessary excisions compared with immediate treatment, an observational emulation target...
  
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• 'Super Movers' Show Signs of Exceptional Brain Aging

  22-06-2026 23:10 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Super movers--adults 80 and older who walk as fast as people 30 years younger--had lower risks of cognitive impairment, data from multiple cohorts suggested.
  Across five cohorts in the Health and Retirement Study International...
  
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• Study Flags Overuse of Antibiotics for Diverticulitis

  22-06-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Despite guidelines discouraging antibiotics in many uncomplicated diverticulitis cases, nearly everyone got one in a retrospective cohort study across Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities.
  Of more than 33,000 outpatient...
  
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• Multicomponent Test Tops PSA for Clinically Significant Prostate Cancers

  22-06-2026 23:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A multicomponent blood-based biomarker test that combines prostate-specific antigen (PSA) with additional plasma protein biomarkers, a polygenic risk score, and clinical variables identified more clinically significant prostate...
  
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• More Data Back Teclistamab for Autoimmune Disease

  22-06-2026 22:18 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Prospects are growing that an approved, off-the-shelf drug can rescue patients with certain ultra-refractory autoimmune diseases, a pair of new reports suggest.
  Among 18 patients with various autoimmune conditions treated with...
  
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• Lifestyle Treatments as Important as Medications in Managing Obesity in Kids, Teens

  22-06-2026 21:14 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Pharmacotherapies paired with lifestyle treatments were linked with the greatest short-term weight reduction in kids and teens with obesity, a systematic review and network meta-analysis showed.
  Treatment with the GLP-1 receptor...
  
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• A Way to Successfully Rein in Unnecessary Blood Thinner Use

  22-06-2026 20:05 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The country's largest integrated health system found a way to clamp down on unnecessary antiplatelet use among patients on direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs).
  In a quality improvement study, seven health systems within the Veterans...
  
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• HER2-Positive Breast Cancer and Brain Metastases

  22-06-2026 19:03 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- An estimated 20% to 40% of patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer will ultimately develop brain metastases, resulting in poorer odds of survival along with headache, seizure, neurological and cognitive impairment...
  
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• Massage Gun Eye Injury: Retinal Tears, Detachment

  22-06-2026 18:16 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The rise in popularity of percussive massage guns could carry some hidden dangers for consumers, as a case study of a young student with tired eyes revealed.
  A patient in his 20s reported experiencing flashing lights and floaters...
  
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• Can Monthly Dosing With Novel GLP-1 Maintain Weight Loss?

  22-06-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the American Diabetes Association annual meeting, updated phase II data from the VESPER program showed that patients who achieved weight loss with a weekly dose of the ultra-long-acting investigational GLP-1 agonist berobenatide...
  
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• Bispecific Antibodies May Reshape Relapsed Follicular Lymphoma Care

  22-06-2026 17:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, new subgroup and real-world analyses added to the growing evidence for bispecific antibodies in relapsed follicular lymphoma, while also highlighting practical questions...
  
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• First-Line Options in HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer

  22-06-2026 17:21 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The survival outlook for patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer has changed significantly for the better over the last two decades.
  For example, a European cohort study showed that overall survival (OS) increased...
  
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• Staggering Amounts of Fentanyl Hit Streets as the DEA Watched and Took No Action

  22-06-2026 16:56 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between...
  
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• Utah Marks a Year of Battling Measles, With No Clear End in Sight

  22-06-2026 16:23 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Utah has spent the past year fighting measles outbreaks--a grim milestone that could affect whether the U.S. can keep its measles-free designation.
  More than 680 people have gotten sick since the state's first outbreak began...
  
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• Hypertension Drug Recall; Hantavirus Quarantine Ends; Bending Over and Miscarriage

  22-06-2026 15:37 via medpagetoday.com
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  More than 11,000 bottles of the hypertension drug chlorthalidone have been recalled over failed dissolution specifications, according to the FDA. (Eating Well)...
  
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• 'The Paper's Title Tells You It Shouldn’t be Published': What We Heard This Week

  21-06-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- "The paper's title tells you that it shouldn't be published."--Paul Offit, MD, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, on a study that purportedly suggested an increase in sudden infant...
  
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• We're Being Taught to Care for Everyone But Ourselves

  21-06-2026 18:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- November 6, 2024. The moment I (Agorua) wake up, I know something has shifted. I want to stay home and cry, but that is not the reality of a second-year medical student. I peel myself from my bed, hide the evidence of sleep deprivation...
  
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