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(MedPage Today) -- Incidental coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores extracted from nongated chest CT scans accurately predicted cardiovascular risks, a cohort study showed. Patients with moderate nongated CAC had significantly higher risks of cardiovascular...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- HHS delayed this week's Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee meeting after advocates voiced concerns that the public had only 4 days to comment on a 300-page plan to shape the government's autism research, services, and...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Major Pharmaceuticals issued a nationwide recall of multiple doses of levothyroxine sodium tablets, sold under the Major and Cardinal brands, due to subpotency. (USA Today) The investigational triple agonist retatrutide met...
Read full article →Volume recovery, capacity increases, supplemental funding, some struggling facilities and a jump in liability expenses all played into a guidance revision at the acute and behavioral hospital operator. Health insurance exchange impacts, while elevated, still landed within the higher range of the company's initial expectations.
Read full article →Donations this summer are not “keeping pace with hospital demand,” with the nonprofit citing extreme heat, poor air quality and foodborne illnesses as factors in the low donor turnout.
Read full article →The health secretary had blocked the funding, accusing the group to which Congress had directed it of using outdated and dangerous vaccines.
Read full article →A former Trump health official on Tuesday slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci over his recently-released journal entries. “I'd like to see honesty and transparency and I'd like Tony to come clean with all the things that he's really been caught in contradictions,” Dr. Brett Giroir, a former assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health...
Read full article →Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci is set to be under the microscope for a tough Senate hearing on Wednesday, just days after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released more than 1,000 pages of Fauci's diary entries from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the weekend leading up to the hearing before the Senate...
Read full article →A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official insisted on the security of the American food supply as the number of American cases of cyclosporiasis hit 11,000. “The U.S. food supply is safe,” the FDA’s acting deputy commissioner for food, Donald Prater, said Monday during the International Association for Food Protection’s yearly meeting, The New York...
Read full article →A Trump administration plan to limit visas for graduate student and postdocs to four years is fueling concerns that the U.S. could lose out on foreign scientists
Read full article →Plus: Democrats take on Trump over IVF, and Trump's White House releases a new science funding blueprint.
Read full article →New GSK CEO Luke Miels outlined his strategy to help the company navigate a patent cliff and get on a path toward long-term growth.
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