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(MedPage Today) -- Patients taking GLP-1 receptor agonists for obesity had a 41% lower risk of obesity-related cancers as compared with patients treated with diet or exercise, a large propensity-matched cohort study showed. After 2 years of follow...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- A fixed-dose combination of novel amylin analog cagrilintide and semaglutide, given once weekly, lowered blood glucose and weight in various populations with type 2 diabetes. The combination injectable, dubbed...
Read full article →Health insurance executives convene this week in Las Vegas at a time when the industry is facing significant pressure around cost, access and policy change.
Read full article →Embracing AI requires a workforce that's ready for the revolution, and it's with that backdrop that CVS has rolled out its internal AI Learning Academy
Read full article →Trump administration heads highlighted Monday additional voluntary commitments that will increase medical students' exposure to nutrition education. Seventy-three medical schools to date said they will have at least 40 hours of such material or a competency equivalent starting this fall.
Read full article →An unauthorized user accessed certain systems between late November and mid-February, the health system said in a March 24 notice.
Read full article →The goal of the partnership is to build a precision medicine hub for cancer patients around the globe using MSK’s clinical data and Sophia Genetics’ AI platform.
Read full article →The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday that numerous medical school accrediting organizations and assessors have agreed to increase nutrition requirements for U.S. medical education. HHS said in a release that eight medical school organizations had agreed to "increase nutrition requirements at every level of U.S. medical education, competency-evaluation, training, and residency."...
Read full article →Vida Health partnered with Instacart to provide members with grocery stipends for healthy foods, expanding access to nutrition support as part of cardiometabolic care. The post Vida Health Teams Up with Instacart to Expand Access to Nutritious Food appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →The Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak is spreading at an unprecedented pace, Africa CDC warns.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- In the wake of clinicians and researchers being kicked out of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting here, at least two of the organization's leaders have resigned. President-Elect Jennifer Green, MD...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination during pregnancy was effective at preventing infants from being hospitalized with RSV-associated acute respiratory illness (ARI) in a real-world setting, according to a retrospective...
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