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A federal judge handed down a decision this week in a lawsuit involving the 340B prescription drug discount program as ...

Model Could Sound the Alarm on Preeclampsia Risk in Late Pregnancy

A machine learning model for prediction of preeclampsia risk using routinely collected data was feasible, according to a retrospective cohort ...

Pre-Op Chemo or Upfront Surgery in Colon Cancer: Is One Strategy Best?

(MedPage Today) -- The use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy failed to improve disease-free survival (DFS) over upfront surgery in patients with ...

The Chase Is Still On in Heart Pump Innovation

Durable mechanical circulatory support for patients with advanced heart failure is currently limited to one left ventricular assist device.Several ventricular ...

NASA changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for the first time

NASA gave the Didymos system a nudgeSteve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA Humanity has shifted an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for ...

Myeloma Combo With ‘Unprecedented’ Effect Wins FDA Approval

(MedPage Today) -- A promising combination for multiple myeloma received FDA approval as a second-line therapy. The approval of teclistamab ...

How Springing Forward to Daylight Saving Time Can Affect Health

(MedPage Today) -- Most of America "springs forward" Sunday for daylight saving time. Losing that hour of sleep can do ...

ACOG’s Endometriosis Guidelines Recognize That Pain Doesn’t Need Surgical Proof

(MedPage Today) -- She was 29 at the time of our visit, nearly a decade after first describing painful periods ...

Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth

Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, is a prime target in the hunt for life elsewhere in our solar systemNASA/JPL/Space Science ...

Bubbles of Prostate Cancer Info; Cancer Drug Tops Moneymakers; Small Kidney Tumors

An investigational approach to diagnosis of prostate cancer uses sound waves to extract "bubbles of information" from cells. (Cancer Research ...

GLP-1 Weight Loss Higher Among Women

Studies in a new meta-analysis show sex differences in average weight loss, but similar benefits across other sub-groups. Medscape Medical ...

First-in-Class Tx for Dravet Syndrome Shows Early Success

A first-in-class gene-regulating therapy cut seizures by up to 91% in children with Dravet syndrome in extension studies, raising hopes ...

Inflammation might cause Alzheimer’s – here’s how to reduce it

Keeping you sharp may be an unexpected, but welcome, side effect of vaccinesJozef Polc / Alamy There is growing evidence ...

‘Women grow up with pain as a part of their lives’

A health campaigner says women's relationship to pain is shaped by the way they grow up with it as a ...

RFK Jr. Says FDA Will Lift Ban on Peptides

(MedPage Today) -- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to loosen restrictions on some peptides that the FDA previously ...

Achilles Tendon Ruptures Rare in Pro Soccer, but Devastating When They Happen

(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- A 12-year study of Achilles tendon injuries in Major League Soccer (MLS) players found ...

Another B-Cell Drug for Lupus Hits the Mark

(MedPage Today) -- Obinutuzumab (Gazyva) appears set to add systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) to its list of approved indications, as ...

The best new popular science books of March 2026 include a new book from Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit has a new book out this monthTrent Davis Bailey March, in the northern hemisphere anyway, is about venturing ...

Fauci vs RFK Jr.? Here’s Who Americans Trust for Public Health Advice