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Dr. Kenneth Ngure, president-elect of the International AIDS Society, says, "We have had very good scientific advances ... yet the funding cuts have also taken us back."
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Another attempt to win accelerated approval for RP1 (vusolimogene oderparepvec) -- a melanoma drug candidate that's already been rejected twice by the FDA -- could face tough going at a meeting of FDA's outside experts this...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- At ENDO 2026, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, experts highlighted the growing interest in understanding hypercortisolism beyond classic Cushing syndrome and its broader implications for cardiometabolic health. In...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- There's been a lot written in the media lately about the risks and benefits of deskilling. Smarter and smarter artificial intelligence (AI) systems are taking over countless tasks across every aspect of society, from the mundane...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Last year, National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers were worried about losing their status due to numerous delays in the grantmaking process. More than a year later, leadership at these centers said the situation...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved autoinjectable furosemide (Furoscix ReadyFlow) for the treatment of edema in adults with heart failure or chronic kidney disease, MannKind announced. The FIND-AF 2.0 electronic health record-based risk model...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to tie up remaining lawsuits that claim its talc products caused ovarian cancer. The drugmaker, which has been fighting talc-related lawsuits for more than a decade, said...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A key U.S. government report on mental health, substance use, and addiction showed continued improvements in several metrics, especially among young people. There was some uncertainty about the future of the National Survey...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. As Anthony Fauci, MD, readies to testify before a Senate committee this week, thousands of pages of his diary entries were released by the office of Sen. Rand Paul...
Read full article →The managed care giant raised its 2026 earnings outlook for the second time this year following the results, which its CFO called “fantastic.”
Read full article →The update is the latest in a COVID-19 vaccine mandate case brought by a former consultant against Kaiser Permanente's medical group.
Read full article →In years’ worth of journal entries, Dr. Anthony Fauci wrote about the uncertainty surrounding the origins of COVID-19, the media attention he received during the pandemic and his “unique” relationship with President Trump. The office of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released the entries, which Fauci wrote while he led the National Institute of Allergy and...
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