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• Nurses Sue Managers Over Attacks; Sleep Study Fraud; Spine Device Exec Sentenced

  13-08-2026 16:45 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Nurses at an Iowa mental health facility sued their supervisors over repeated assaults by patients, alleging they knew about continued violence but did nothing to stop it. (The Gazette)
  The owner of a testing company in Oregon...
  
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• Are HYROX Athletes Overdoing It?

  13-08-2026 20:32 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Half of participants in a new, increasingly popular fitness competition called HYROX said they had sustained an injury during training for it during the previous year, an international survey found.
  Among 418 HYROX athletes...
  
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• How Much Liquid Is Really in Vaccines? Kinda Chic to get a Colonoscopy; PPE Comeback

  13-08-2026 19:32 via medpagetoday.com
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  How much liquid is actually in pediatric vaccines? Pediatrician Nicole Baldwin, MD, set the record straight...
  
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• Brad Pitt Opens Up About Suicidal Ideation

  13-08-2026 18:50 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.
  Brad Pitt, the famed actor and film producer, recently shared that...
  
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• Tylenol Poisonings; Comedy Therapy Before Liver Transplant? U.S. IBD Prevalence

  13-08-2026 18:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- U.S. poison centers reported a nearly fourfold increase in calls for liver injury from 2000 to 2024, with acetaminophen (Tylenol) identified as the most common substance implicated. (Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology...
  
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• Trump's Vaccine Plan Brings Obstacles to Parents, Providers, and Drugmakers

  13-08-2026 17:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Public health experts have been quick to condemn an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at upending childhood vaccinations in the U.S., but the biggest obstacles may be the unprecedented financial and logistical...
  
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• Trump's MMR Vaccine Plan Brings Obstacles to Parents, Providers, and Drugmakers

  13-08-2026 17:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Public health experts have been quick to condemn an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at upending childhood vaccinations in the U.S., but the biggest obstacles may be the unprecedented financial and logistical...
  
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• Whole Foods Recall; RFK Jr.'s Voting Problem; Glass Particles in Biosimilar

  13-08-2026 15:37 via medpagetoday.com
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  Whole Foods said some of Taylor Farms' jalapeño-containing dips, salsa, and guacamole that were recalled due to potential Salmonella contamination were sold...
  
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• Trump's Vax Order Hands Some MAHA Voters a Win, but Gives Democrats an Attack Line

  12-08-2026 23:41 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- President Donald Trump pivoted the nation's attention back to vaccines this week with an executive order that aims to scale back the childhood immunization schedule and space out shots into separate visits.
  After acting to overhaul...
  
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• Experts Flag Potential Safety Concerns in New Prader-Willi Drug

  12-08-2026 23:27 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Prader-Willi syndrome experts are warning of potential safety risks associated with extended-release diazoxide choline (Vykat XR), a drug approved last year for treating the extreme bouts of hunger experienced by patients with...
  
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• Stopping Statins in Trial Didn't Raise Mortality Risk, but ...

  12-08-2026 23:04 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Experts were still unsure whether stopping primary prevention statins in the elderly was a good idea following the report of a modestly sized randomized trial.
  In Statins in the Elderly (SITE, also known as SAGA), statin discontinuation...
  
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• Arthritis Pain Management Falls Short in U.S., CDC Study Suggests

  12-08-2026 22:11 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Federal survey data for 2023 showed an estimated prevalence of moderate to severe joint pain among U.S. adults of 58.5%, suggesting that pain management in arthritis has a long way to go.
  Among the participants saying they had...
  
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• Alzheimer's Risk Lower for Women on Estrogen-Only Menopausal Hormone Therapy

  12-08-2026 22:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Women who used estrogen-only menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) had a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to a retrospective longitudinal study.
  Estrogen-only MHT users had lower odds of increased Alzheimer's pathology...
  
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• Psych Meds Scrutinized in Murder Trial; LSD's Phase III Win; Bipolar Mortality Study

  12-08-2026 20:43 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A focus this week in the murder trial of former nurse Lindsay Clancy turned to the psychiatric medications she was taking prior to killing her three children. (AP)
  The Department of Veterans Affairs announced the launch of PIVOT...
  
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• Pediatric Glioma Trials Test Combination Strategies to Overcome Resistance

  12-08-2026 20:24 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- At the International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (ISPNO), researchers presented findings from two trials aimed at overcoming resistance to standard BRAF/MEK-targeted therapies in patients with pediatric low-grade gliomas...
  
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• Doctors Born Outside U.S. Play Big Role in Caring for Underserved Patients

  12-08-2026 20:09 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Internal medicine physicians who were not born in the U.S. treated 22 million Medicare beneficiaries in 2024, but Trump administration immigration policies may put a dent in that workforce, exacerbating care shortages for the...
  
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• I'm an Emergency Physician, and I'm Ready to Start Prescribing Air Conditioning

  12-08-2026 19:47 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Two summers ago, in the middle of my busy shift in the emergency department, my mother called. At 85 years old and struggling with dementia, she was barely managing to live independently in the childhood home where I grew up...
  
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• Debate on Use of SSRIs in Pregnancy Shifting, Experts Say

  12-08-2026 19:12 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For pregnant women with major depressive disorder (MDD), serious adverse outcomes are unlikely with the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), researchers said.
  After thalidomide used for morning sickness led...
  
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• Wait Times for Cancer Surgery Are Increasing, Study Finds

  12-08-2026 19:06 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Cancer patients are facing longer wait times between diagnosis and the start of first-course therapy, a retrospective cohort study suggested.
  Among more than 2.7 million patients with nonmetastatic stage I-III breast, colon...
  
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• From Nutrition to Vaccines, Here's What MAHA Policies Fail to Deliver

  12-08-2026 18:20 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The U.S. faces a genuine public health challenge. Rates of chronic disease such as diabetes and hypertension, obesity, substance use, mental health conditions, and health inequities remain stubbornly high despite decades of medical...
  
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• AI-Created Viruses; Taylor Farms' Outbreak History; Pulling a 'Full Fauci'

  12-08-2026 18:03 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Stanford researchers successfully had an artificial intelligence (AI) model create a whole family of simple viruses that can only infect bacteria. While these particular viruses pose no threat to people, there have long been...
  
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• Medicaid to Stop Paying for Some Gender-Affirming Care for Youth

  12-08-2026 15:34 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- President Donald Trump's administration said that Medicaid will stop paying for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for transgender minors and the state Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) won't pay for the...
  
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• Rod Stewart's Medical Procedure; Lightning Hospitalizes 16; AI as Sperm Detective

  12-08-2026 15:23 via medpagetoday.com
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  Sir Rod Stewart will be unable to continue his "One Last Time" farewell tour following a coronary stent procedure. (AP)
  The Mexico farm linked to the largest cyclosporiasis...
  
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• GLP-1 Telehealth Platforms Rated by U.S. News

  12-08-2026 15:01 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- For the first time ever, U.S. News & World Report has released ratings of telehealth platforms offering GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.
  The inaugural ratings evaluated 20 online platforms that offer FDA-approved, brand-name GLP...
  
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• COVID Excess Deaths Paper Retracted Over Misinformation

  12-08-2026 00:30 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- BMJ Public Health retracted a study on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic that appeared to suggest vaccination and other countermeasures as a possible explanation, following an investigation by the journal and the...
  
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• CDC Warns of Severe Arboviral Disease With B-Cell Drugs

  11-08-2026 23:39 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- The CDC on Tuesday warned doctors about the risk for severe arboviral neuroinvasive disease in patients on B cell-depleting or modulating agents, calling out anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies in particular.
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• Fact Focus: Trump's False Claims During Childhood Vaccine Order Signing

  11-08-2026 21:50 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- While issuing an executive order on Monday aimed at getting states to revise childhood vaccine recommendations, President Donald Trump and others in his administration repeated several false claims about those vaccines, as well...
  
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• AED Drones; Endometriosis and Blood Clots; Wonky PFO Closure Risk

  11-08-2026 21:17 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- A pilot study has drones flying automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to patients during real 911 calls for cardiac arrest in two counties in North Carolina and Virginia, said VCU Health.
  The cardioprotective benefits of...
  
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• Deaths After GLP-1s; First Detransition Clinic for Youths; DXA Scans Decline

  11-08-2026 20:49 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- More than 150 deaths possibly linked to injectable weight-loss medications were reported in the U.K., according to government regulators. (The Independent)
  Texas Children's Hospital in Houston will open the nation's first detransition...
  
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• Nonprofit Hospitals Aren't Acting Like Nonprofits. Congress Should Ask Why.

  11-08-2026 20:00 via medpagetoday.com
  (MedPage Today) -- Last September, I (Whaley) testified before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight about something that should trouble every American who has ever paid a hospital bill or a health insurance premium: the nonprofit...
  
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