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(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved the first formulation of bevacizumab specifically for the treatment of neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), Outlook Therapeutics announced on Friday. The approval of bevacizumab-vikg (Lytenava...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- An FDA panel on Friday continued to recommend loosening compounding restrictions for all but one of the peptides it reviewed, despite safety concerns from agency scientists for all of them. During the second day of deliberations...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Amgen has submitted a third-party review of avacopan's (Tavneos) pivotal trial data and other analyses to the FDA in a bid to keep the embattled drug for severe anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved a combination tablet of 325-mg acetaminophen and 110-mg naproxen sodium (Tylenol with Naproxen) for over-the-counter (OTC) pain relief, the agency announced Friday. The opioid-free combination tablet is indicated...
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Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Actor William Shatner, Captain Kirk on the original "Star Trek" television series, and his real-life daughter talk about surviving advanced cancer. (ABC News) Texas cancer centers spent billions to attract some of the world...
Read full article →The Trump administration is fighting to restore controversial provisions that a judge threw out last month, including shorter sign-up windows and heightened eligibility verification.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Patients with rheumatoid arthritis who started a JAK inhibitor after they received one dose of a two-dose shingles vaccine series had similar varicella zoster virus (VZV) antibody levels by 12 weeks to those who waited until...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The number of measles cases in the U.S. has surpassed the record-breaking tally for all of 2025, with five more months of 2026 still to come. The CDC logged 2,318 cases of measles as of Thursday, according to an agency update...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. The FDA and CDC said that nine states -- now also including Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania -- are involved in the largest cyclosporiasis outbreak...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Picture the scene: It's May 1991, and a New York gastroenterologist will soon fly home from a medical meeting in Atlanta, all the while pondering a perplexing illness in Nepal. As Bradley Connor, MD, had just learned, many expats...
Read full article →Uninsured patients, largely those who dropped Affordable Care Act plans, are hitting for-profit hospital operator Community Health Systems’ bottom line harder than anticipated.
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