What Will CDC, FDA, and CMS Look Like After the Election?
What will the health agency landscape look like if former President Donald Trump is elected on Tuesday, and what about ...
Day: November 1, 2024
Bird flu infects a pig in the US, potentially raising risks to humans
Every time H5N1 infects a mammal, it has a chance to develop mutations that make it more transmissibleAlamy Stock Photo ...
Omega-3 Supplements Show Benefit in APOE4 Carriers
High-dose supplements of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid, penetrated the brain in both APOE4 carriers and non-carriers before ...
Public Health Department Barred From Giving COVID Vaccine
A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a ...
Staffing Firm Can’t Pay Its Doctors
Staffing firm NES Health told emergency physicians that it doesn't have enough money to pay them this month, sources told ...
Updates on Risk, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Thyroid Cancer
CHICAGO — Patients who are new users of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists have a low absolute risk of thyroid ...
FDA Panel Rejects SGLT1/2 Inhibitor for Type 1 Diabetes
An FDA panel on Thursday recommended against sotagliflozin as an adjunct to insulin for patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) ...
Is It Really Cancer? More Concerns About Accelerated Approval; Metformin and Cancer
The debate continues over whether some prostate cancers should be called "cancer." (University of California San Francisco) Delayed treatment related ...
Finger-Prick Test for Alzheimer’s Disease?
A finger-prick blood test can accurately identify p-tau217 — a key biomarker of Alzheimer's disease (AD) — without the need ...
RFK Jr. Wants Access to Federal Data to Show Vaccines Are Unsafe, Trump Advisor Says
A co-chair of Donald Trump's transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data ...
Gardasil 9 at 10 Years: A Brief History
Vaccination against human papilloma virus (HPV), a group of more than 200 viruses infecting at least 50% of sexually active people ...
Year in Review: Tardive Dyskinesia
In 2024, several research and pharmacological advancements were made for tardive dyskinesia, a movement disorder caused by dopamine-blocking medications. Below ...
Year in Review: COVID-19 | MedPage Today
This year's headlines on COVID-19 featured new research on COVID-related mortality, post-acute sequelae of infection, vaccine safety, and potential therapeutics. ...
Sequencing in Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma
The indication for sacituzumab govitecan (Trodelvy) in previously treated patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer was withdrawn last ...
Paging Dr. Democracy: First-Year Resident Steps Up to Vote
MedPage Today is excited to present Emilie "Mia" Mathura, DO, MSPH, as the host of our new short-form feature series ...
Rifaximin Reduced Overt Hepatic Encephalopathy Recurrence Over Lactulose
Roughly half as many patients with cirrhosis in remission from overt hepatic encephalopathy (OHE) experienced a breakthrough episode with rifaximin ...
Government reviews £30,000 limit on disabled adaptions grants
The government is looking again at whether disabled people in England should be able to claim more than £30,000 to ...
Virtual Yoga Eases Chronic Low Back Pain
TOPLINE: Virtual yoga classes significantly reduced chronic low back pain intensity and improved back-related function in health system employees. Improvements were ...
Year in Review: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
The top stories in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) for 2024 included practice-changing results in EGFR-mutant disease, an unprecedented gain ...
MS Drugmaker Fined €462.6 Million for Disparaging Rival
The European Commission (EC) has fined pharmaceutical company Teva €462.6 million for “systematically spread misleading information” and abusing its dominant ...
