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(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Michigan's cyclosporiasis outbreak has surpassed 6,100 cases, state officials said. A fourth person died in connection with New York City's Legionnaires' disease...
Read full article →The HHS has halted more Medicaid funding to the states, citing concerns about fraud. Critics have slammed the “attack first, ask questions later” strategy of the deferrals, which have only impacted Democrat-led states to date.
Read full article →The lawsuit follows a cease-and-desist request and argues Lilly is using “deceptive” ads to claim its GLP-1 products are broadly superior to Novo’s medicines. Lilly countered that its campaign is “truthful.”
Read full article →The company agreed to buy a diabetes health business and medical supplier Strive Medical to boost its growing in-home solutions unit.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- An investigational antifungal was associated with clinical improvements in a majority of patients with disseminated coccidioidomycosis (DCM) who failed standard treatments, according to an open-label phase IIb trial. Among 41...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Caffeine consumption can be safely tolerated in reasonable amounts in most people, according to a review by the American Heart Association (AHA). "The convergence of evidence from large cohort studies and small randomized controlled...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) cut dozens of grants last week, issuing what appeared to be batch termination notices to researchers. Termination letters shared with MedPage Today and posted online had...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Federal health officials said Monday they remain focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as the source of a multistate outbreak of the diarrhea-causing parasite Cyclospora, despite inaccurate test results that the government briefly...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Treatment with investigational duvakitug appeared to improve remission rates among patients with ulcerative colitis and endoscopic response rates in those with Crohn's disease, results from two cohorts of the phase IIb RELIEVE...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Spouses of people with dementia had a higher risk of developing dementia themselves, a matched cohort study of nearly 1 million married people in Taiwan showed. Compared with unexposed spouses, both husbands and wives of dementia...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Having dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development and decimated the CDC's global health capacities, the Trump administration has resorted to a blunt instrument to protect the American public from the Bundibugyo...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The market for compounded GLP-1 drugs remained robust despite the end of semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) shortages, with many facilities adding ingredients like B vitamins and some operating...
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