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(MedPage Today) -- At a Senate Budget Committee hearing about the Medicaid program, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) asked Andy Schneider, of Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families, whether states should be punished for cheating the...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Editor's Note: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. After an opening week of wrenching...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A peptide vaccine targeting KRAS mutations in pancreatic cancer showed preliminary evidence of activity in a small study of high-risk patients. The vaccine elicited KRAS-specific T-cell responses in 18 of 20 patients with mutations...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- People taking hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) showed markedly increased risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease when blood levels of the drug were low and when long-term adherence was poor...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- In 1976, German virologist Harald zur Hausen, MD, DSc, proposed that human papillomavirus (HPV) causes cervical cancer, countering the widely held belief that herpes simplex virus caused the cancer. Seven years later, he proved...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Is "gym penis" -- the phenomenon of shrinkage occurring after a workout session -- real? (New York Post) Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed the...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The American Diabetes Association (ADA) asked for patience as its Audit and Governance Committee reviews the incident at this year's annual meeting -- when five prominent experts were removed by police -- and prepares recommendations...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A woman who suffered a cardiac arrest while taking the New York State bar exam is suing the test site, Hofstra University, claiming that CPR and an automated external defibrillator were not provided in a timely manner by staff...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A 2024 report of a severe Alzheimer's disease patient who improved after an intravenous mesenchymal stem cell transplant was retracted by Case Reports in Neurological Medicine and its publisher John Wiley & Sons. Researchers...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The other day I walked past a branch of a gym that had a service for walk-in on-site intravenous (IV) drips. It was made clear that this was an independent business, not a service offered by the gym itself, but a private company...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Two thirds of young men in the U.S. regularly engage with online masculinity influencers ("manfluencers") who often promote sexism, normalize violence against women, and peddle a narrow view of what it means to be a man. Platforms...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The proportion of new buprenorphine prescriptions for opioid use disorder (OUD) that were never dispensed or filled increased from 2020 to 2024, according to a retrospective cohort study. Among over 1,400 patients with commercial...
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