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Leadership of the agency that oversees the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) suppressed the group's recommendations, a former task force chair said. Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/washington-wat…
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Trump Administration Suppressed USPSTF Recommendations, Past Chair Says
Group's recommendations on cervical cancer screening, cardiovascular prevention were blocked
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 4h
Proton therapy failed to improve survival in locally advanced HCC compared with photons, surprising investigators in the multicenter randomized NRG-GI003 trial. @astro-org.bsky.social #ASTRO25 www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverag…
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Unexpected Lack of Survival Benefit in Liver Cancer Treated With Proton Therapy
Overall survival twice as high after photon radiotherapy, no difference in PFS, local progression
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 5h
Physicians at Allina Health reached a tentative agreement following a 4-day strike on their first union contract, which still awaits ratification. Saul Singh, DO, described why he believes physicians need a greater voice in how healthcare is delivered. www.medpagetoday.com/hospitalbase...
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 6h
A hearing aid intervention did not reduce dementia incidence among people with mild cognitive impairment and hearing loss in the CHOICE trial, but a secondary outcome suggested that it may have increased the rate of cognitive improvement. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/deme…
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Unexpected Cognitive Improvement Emerges in Hearing Aid Trial
Treating hearing loss may help some people regain cognitive and functional capacity, data suggest
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 8h
Should Medicare's annual wellness visit (AWV) be less physician-driven and more artificial intelligence (AI)-driven? That's the question being asked by CMS in its proposed physician payment rule, issued this past summer. Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpo…
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Is AI Coming to the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit?
CMS asks whether AI should be used to collect patient data before visits and help with follow-up
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 8h
Mivocabtagene autoleucel, an autologous CD19 CAR-T cell therapy, showed benefits lasting 6 months or longer for generalized myasthenia gravis patients in the phase II portion of the KYSA-6 trial. #AANEM www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverag…
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CAR-T Therapy Shows Durable Benefits in Myasthenia Gravis
Miv-cel sustains improvements at 24 weeks
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 9h
"She can oversee meaningful reforms while remaining a loyal advocate for the science, process, and staff that are the agency's DNA." Read the #OpEd from policy analyst and regulatory expert Steven Grossman, JD, at: www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…
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Opinion | Leading FDA Is an Impossible Job Right Now. Heidi Overton Could Still Do It Well.
My support rests on her recognition that the agency is bound by law, science, and process
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 12h
Local control after surgical removal of large brain metastases improved significantly when patients received fractionated SRS instead of single-fraction SRS, a randomized trial showed. #ASTRO26 @astro-org.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverag…
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Fractionated SRS Improves Local Control After Brain Metastasis Resection
Surgical-bed control, OS, freedom from whole-brain RT favor fractionated over single-fraction SRS
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 30/09/2026
What if writing and submitting an academic paper didn't take weeks or months, but instead could be done over the course of just one weekend at a premium hotel with plenty of snack breaks? Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/special-report…
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Boot Camp Promises a Submitted Paper in Just 2 Days
Critics worry AI-aided program enables shoddy research
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 29/09/2026
Commercial insurance formularies have posed a barrier to cutting greenhouse gas emissions from metered-dose inhalers used to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a study showed. Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/pulmonology/as…
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Insurance Formularies Holding Up Lower-Emission Asthma, COPD Inhalers
Options that reduce greenhouse gases face lower rates of coverage and more administrative hurdles
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 29/09/2026
In an #OpEd for MedPage Today, Alex Smolak, PhD, an epidemiologist with the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, responds to the $17.1 billion Meta settlement and points to a "natural experiment." www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 29/09/2026
The FDA approved tiratricol (Emcitate) to treat peripheral thyrotoxicosis in patients with monocarboxylate transporter 8 deficiency, the agency announced on Monday, marking the first approval for this rare genetic disorder. www.medpagetoday.com/endocrinology/…
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FDA Approves First Treatment for Rare Thyroid Hormone Disorder
Tiratricol is indicated for patients with MCT8 deficiency
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 29/09/2026
Identical twin physicians who returned to their hometown of Richmond, Virginia, to co-lead the emergency department at a local hospital have been garnering recent media attention. Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/emergencymedic…
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Twin Doctors Lead Hometown Emergency Department
The Jaspers overcame difficult circumstances to give back to their community
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 29/09/2026
Fasting less than 8 hours before routine blood tests generally did not change results, with few exceptions, according to an observational study. Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/pr…
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Few Lab Tests Actually Need 8 Hours of Fasting, Study Suggests
Findings support a step away from routine fasting, but glucose is one exception
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 29/09/2026
Young adult patients with persistent knee pain following ACL repair surgery got more relief from a supervised physical therapy program compared with self-directed rehab, results of a randomized trial indicated. @jbdriban.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/surgery/orthop…
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Still in Pain After ACL Repair? Supervised Rehab Superior to Exercises Alone
Randomized trial answers longstanding clinical question
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 28/09/2026
A 53-year-old woman with severe eye symptoms had already seen multiple specialists before finally being diagnosed with a rare condition that's more often seen in children and young adults. Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/casestudies/op…
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She Developed a Rare Eye Disease After a Strep Infection
53-year-old woman is second-oldest patient reported to have post-streptococcal uveitis syndrome
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 28/09/2026
Patients with community-onset presumed bacterial sepsis were less likely to get timely antibiotics if they had GI or respiratory symptoms at the time of presentation, an observational cohort study found. www.medpagetoday.com/criticalcare/s…
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Two Symptoms Linked to Antibiotic Delays in Presumed Sepsis
GI and respiratory symptoms at presentation both flagged in observational study
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 28/09/2026
"The debate over anesthesia reimbursement is not merely a dispute among professionals. It is a question of fairness and access." Read the #OpEd from Mary Scott-Herring, DNP, MS, CRNA, at: www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…
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Opinion | It's Time for Reimbursement Parity in Anesthesia
Equal pay for equivalent services from CRNAs is essential to protecting timely access to care
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 28/09/2026
The FDA approved the dopamine agonist tavapadon (Juvmo) to treat adults with Parkinson's disease, drugmaker AbbVie announced Monday. medpagetoday.com/neurology/parkinso…
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Parkinson's Disease Gets New Treatment Approved
FDA gives go-ahead to D1/D5 dopamine agonist tavapadon
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 28/09/2026
The FDA expanded the indications for the B-cell depleter obinutuzumab (Gazyva) to include idiopathic nephrotic syndrome, the agency announced on Friday, the first new option for the rare kidney disease in more than half a century. www.medpagetoday.com/nephrology/gen…
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First New Drug Approved for Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome in 70 Years
Anti-CD20 agent obinutuzumab (Gazyva) gets green light for patients as young as 2 years
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 28/09/2026
Support from the AMA to classify nearsightedness as a disease created momentum to increase access to evidence-based treatment and stave off a public health crisis, according to the nation's largest ophthalmology group. www.medpagetoday.com/ophthalmology/…
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Growing Support for Initiatives to Recognize Myopia as a Disease
Risk of vision-threatening complications of nearsightedness gets attention of AMA, Congress
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 28/09/2026
What we heard this week ⬇️👀 #MedSky "We are at a point now that we cannot distinguish fake from real." -- @elisabethbik.bsky.social, a scientific integrity consultant, discussing artificial intelligence-generated research papers. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?
'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 28/09/2026
Laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation and myomectomy for uterine fibroids both resulted in significant and sustained improvements on symptoms and HRQOL measures over 2 years, data from a prospective cohort study showed. www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/fibroids…
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Two Procedures May Yield Similar Symptom Relief for Uterine Fibroids
Radiofrequency ablation and myomectomy outcomes assessed in 2-year study
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 28/09/2026
"We don't have the solution to this problem that has become a mainstay of medical culture." Read the #OpEd from MD candidates Henry Diamond-Pott and Manav Midha at: www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…
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Opinion | We've Seen Defensive Medicine, but It Was Never Taught
Some medical students are studying two different syllabi, creating hesitation in practice
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Chloe Lee MD, MPH @chloenazra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sleep deprived physicians are impaired physicians and why are we debating this still. My latest for @medpagetoday.com #medsky #residency www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | Please ACGME, Leave Our Work Hour Protections Alone
Limits protect residents and patients alike
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 27/09/2026
Lionel Richie is reportedly recovering after undergoing an atrial fibrillation (Afib) ablation earlier this week. Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/po…
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Lionel Richie's Afib Ablation Draws Attention to the Heart Rhythm Disorder
Recent advances in ablation techniques have introduced new technologies
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 26/09/2026
"Increasing the NIH budget and focusing on collaborative teams who have devoted their careers to discovery and teaching is the only way we can offer a healthier future to our children." Read the #OpEd from Brendan Harley, ScD, at: www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…
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Opinion | A Bone Marrow Transplant Saved Me in '95—That Wouldn't Be Possible With Today's NIH
Proposed changes to the agency's budget threaten new cures
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 25/09/2026
Maternal Tdap vaccination helps protect young infants from pertussis, but it was seen to blunt infants' response to their own primary DTaP vaccination in a small observational study. @lauriivaska.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/vac…
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Maternal Tdap Blunts Preschoolers' Pertussis Shot Response, but Booster Revives Them
A DTaP booster at age 4 brought immune responses level with kids of unvaccinated moms
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 25/09/2026
The ACGME suggested eliminating the requirement that residents have 8 hrs off between shifts, & reducing the mandatory rest period after a 24-hr in-house call from 14 to 12 hrs. Psychiatry resident @chloenazra.bsky.social argues against the proposed changes: www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 25/09/2026
The FDA approved the once-weekly basal insulin efsitora (Onswik), drugmaker Eli Lilly announced on Thursday. www.medpagetoday.com/endocrinology/…
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FDA Approves Efsitora Weekly Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes
Approval marks the second once-weekly basal insulin for this population
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 25/09/2026
Lucas Davis, the former CEO of Sigma Nursing honor society, was terminated by the group's board of directors late last week after he allegedly made racial slurs and sexual references to slavery. @teracegarnier.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/nursing/nursin…
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Nursing Society Ousts CEO Accused of Using Racial Slur
Lucas Davis was removed as CEO of Sigma Nursing
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 25/09/2026
The FDA issued a warning letter this month to Empower Pharmacy over its mass production of compounded GLP-1 weight-loss and diabetes drugs, citing illegal copycat manufacturing and insanitary conditions. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpo…
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FDA Warns Pharmacy About Illegal GLP-1 Compounding
Agency's letter flagged issues with copycat manufacturing and sterility
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 25/09/2026
For patients with steatotic liver disease, one risk calculator showed promise for predicting cirrhosis in the primary care setting, but a good tool for hepatocellular carcinoma remained elusive. @mezzc.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/ge…
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Cirrhosis-Flagging Tool Stands Out for Steatotic Liver Disease in Primary Care
SAFE outdid other risk scores in predicting 10-year cirrhosis risk
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 25/09/2026
The FDA approved the oral fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 inhibitor lirafugratinib (Lyrfigtu) for adults with previously treated cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 fusion or other rearrangements, the agency announced Wednesday. www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyonco…
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FDA Approves New Option for Previously Treated Bile Duct Cancer
Trial of lirafugratinib showed responses in almost half of patients, with good durability
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 25/09/2026
As AI grows more sophisticated, its use in medical research is becoming both more prominent and harder to detect, leading to what some describe as a flood of mediocre science being published in journals. Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/special-report…
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Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?
'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 25/09/2026
For people with type 2 diabetes, short-term bursts of oral corticosteroids were linked to certain health risks beyond steroid-induced hyperglycemia in a cohort study. www.medpagetoday.com/endocrinology/…
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Short Steroid Bursts Tied to Serious Adverse Events in Diabetes
Analysis found increased pneumonia, heart failure, and bleeding risks
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 25/09/2026
Nearly one-third of people who tested positive for the bacteria that cause Lyme disease also tested positive for other tick-borne pathogens, according to a retrospective cohort study. Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…
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Nearly 1 in 3 People With Lyme Disease Bacteria Carry Other Tick-Borne Pathogens
Think beyond B. burgdorferi when testing for Lyme disease after a tick bite, study suggests
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 24/09/2026
John Gaitanis, MD, who was recently appointed the new chair of the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), co-founded a company that provides leucovorin to families of children with autism. www.medpagetoday.com/washington-wat…
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New Autism Committee Chair Founded a Leucovorin Telehealth Company
Drug has been promoted as a treatment for autism
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 24/09/2026
More work is needed with regard to antidepressants and muscle relaxants amid efforts to tamp down on polypharmacy and harmful drug-drug interactions, according to nationally representative data. www.medpagetoday.com/geriatrics/gen…
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Possible Drug-Drug Interactions Flagged for Older Americans
Many are on 5+ prescription drugs or dietary supplements
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 24/09/2026
"A decision for Louisiana would impose one state's abortion policy on the rest of the country by undermining an evidence-based FDA determination that applies nationwide." Read the #OpEd from Sarah Wetter, JD, MPH, at: www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…
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Opinion | What a Pending 5th Circuit Ruling Could Mean for Abortion Pill Access
Mifepristone via pharmacies or through the mail is at risk
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 24/09/2026
Many patients treated with golimumab (Simponi) for newly diagnosed peripheral spondyloarthritis in a small trial achieved sustained drug-free remission after 10 years of follow-up, researchers found. www.medpagetoday.com/rheumatology/a…
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10-Year Data Back Early Start to Biologics in Arthritic Diseases
Sustained drug-free remission common in spondyloarthritis patients treated with golimumab
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Brendan Harley @profharley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Scientists 🧪 need to meet this moment and help create a healthier future in this country. So I wrote something at @medpagetoday.com "A Bone Marrow Transplant Saved Me in '95—That Wouldn't Be Possible With Today's NIH" www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... cc @gfriedman.bsky.social
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Opinion | A Bone Marrow Transplant Saved Me in '95—That Wouldn't Be Possible With Today's NIH
Proposed changes to the agency's budget threaten new cures
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 24/09/2026
Older age should not discourage healthy women with a genetic risk for ovarian cancer from considering risk-reducing bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, investigators in a study of BRCA carriers concluded. www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyonco…
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Gauging Benefits of Risk-Reducing Surgery for BRCA-Related Ovarian Cancer
For at-risk women who delay surgery, risk remains substantial at 50, especially with BRCA1
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 24/09/2026
A line could be drawn between how much ultraprocessed food a person eats and their risk of major chronic diseases, according to a meta-analysis. Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/di…
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2 Hot Dogs or 1 Large Cookie? A Study of Risks by Amount of Ultraprocessed Food
Mounting observational evidence links ultraprocessed food with heart disease, cancer, death
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 24/09/2026
Most Americans 50 and older said they would be interested in receiving a vaccine that could reduce their risk of dementia if they were at high risk, survey data showed. Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/deme…
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A Dementia Vaccine? Most Americans Say Yes
Nearly three-fourths of people 50 or older said they'd get vaccinated if they were at high risk
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 24/09/2026
While taking oral menopausal hormone therapy, women faced increased thrombotic risks that varied by the method of use, dosage, and duration of treatment, a nationwide study from Denmark showed. www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/hrt/1231…
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Menopausal Hormone Therapy Thrombotic Risk Varies by Dose, Route of Administration
Nationwide study from Denmark suggests nuance in conversations with patients
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 24/09/2026
With some trepidation, a majority of an FDA advisory committee Thursday endorsed the Galleri multicancer early detection blood test. www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyonco…
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FDA Advisors Recommend Galleri Multicancer Blood Test
Some panelists had reservations about the test's true benefit, however
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 24/09/2026
HHS launched a new research effort on Thursday to change how autism is diagnosed through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), the agency announced. Read more at: www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/auti…
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Kennedy's New Autism Research Program Aims to Speed Diagnoses
ARPA-H launches SPECTRA autism research initiative
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 23/09/2026
Korsakoff syndrome -- a neurocognitive disorder resulting from thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency that often develops after untreated Wernicke encephalopathy -- was difficult to diagnose and frequently led to death, a retrospective study showed. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/deme…
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Brain Disorder Due to Vitamin Deficiency Often Goes Unrecognized
Korsakoff syndrome was hard to diagnose and frequently led to death
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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 23/09/2026
Overall cancer mortality rate in the U.S. declined by 35% between 1991 and 2024, according to @theaacr.bsky.social progress report. www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyonco…
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U.S. Cancer Mortality Declined 35% Since 1991, AACR Report Shows
Group calls for sustained federal investment amid turmoil at NIH and other health agencies
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