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(MedPage Today) -- Florida health officials released new guidance discouraging the use of psychiatric medications for children with anxiety, depression, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and behavioral disorders. A twice-daily dose...

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(MedPage Today) -- Amid the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the CDC has relieved the two top leaders of its Ebola response team of their positions. Incident manager Satish Pillai, MD, MPH, and deputy incident manager...

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(MedPage Today) -- Before I write a prescription for chronic insomnia, I want to know what molecule I am handing the patient, at what dose, and on what basis. Those are ordinary requirements. Yet, last week, a federal advisory committee recommended...

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(MedPage Today) -- At the International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (ISPNO), it was reported that personalized treatment guided by deep molecular profiling produced encouraging survival outcomes in a subset of children with H3 G34-altered...

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The White House decision to end a Medicare drug subsidy plays into Democratic arguments ahead of the midterms.

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(MedPage Today) -- CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, reportedly passed up an opportunity to step into the HHS Secretary's shoes amid a White House overhaul of the agency earlier this year. Here's how Oz gained the trust of the president, Robert...

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The discovery that a fugitive had been working under an alias in the biotech industry prompted a question: How did he evade scrutiny for two decades?

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In this edition of AI Prognosis: A conversation about benchmarking leading clinical chatbots, investor view on AI in biopharma, and more.

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At a highly anticipated Senate hearing, Anthony Fauci evoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions about the Covid-19 pandemic and its origins.

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(MedPage Today) -- Authorities in Uganda declared the East Africa nation free of Ebola on Tuesday following the discharge of the country's last patient in mid-June, a delicate milestone as the virus continues to plague neighboring Congo. Uganda...

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(MedPage Today) -- A two-drug regimen was noninferior to a three-drug regimen as initial antiretroviral therapy (ART) for adults with HIV, a phase IIIb trial showed. At week 48, an HIV-1 RNA level of less than 50 copies/mL was achieved by 89...

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Fauci's testimony, visa time limits for research students, and more health news from Morning Rounds

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(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Anthony Fauci, MD, on Wednesday invoked the 5th Amendment and declined to answer questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling...

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STAT is live-blogging an FDA meeting on Capricor Therapeutics’ treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which has been the subject of a contentious regulatory review.

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“Together, HHS, the VA, and the DOD form a strong American innovation ecosystem — one that China and other competitors cannot easily replicate,” writes former VA Secretary David Shulkin.

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Ronald Fischer, a most-wanted fugitive, was long hiding in the biotech industry in plain sight, and using an alias more extensively than has been previously reported.

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“The effects of isolation extend far beyond children’s time in the hospital,” writes medical student Anna Tsioulias.

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As LLMs compete for doctors' attention, some developers say the science of benchmarking their AI tools for safety and accuracy is flawed.

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While acknowledging that changes must be made to the hospice industry, health policy researchers and providers worry that negative attention and the potential for overly punitive regulations could put patients at risk.

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When surgery became unavoidable, a man with no insurance shopped around for the best price for a hernia repair — and saved thousands by traveling out of state.

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Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants. AHRQ hasn’t issued a new one in over a year.

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An open letter to the board of the American Diabetes Association said the board had badly mishandled an incident at its annual meeting.

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(MedPage Today) -- Initiation of antipsychotic medications, even for short durations, was linked to an increase in the prevalence of pharmacologically treated type 2 diabetes in youths, according to a Dutch cohort study. Among nearly 90,000 youths...

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(MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration is looking into alternatives to the current fee-for-service-based payment system for physicians who treat Medicare patients. The request for information issued on July 14 by the Centers for Medicare...

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(MedPage Today) -- Kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19 who received remdesivir (Veklury) early had a lower risk of graft loss, a target trial emulation study found. Compared with no remdesivir, initiation of the antiviral within 7 days...

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(MedPage Today) -- Ahead of Anthony Fauci, MD, testifying before Congress on Wednesday, a group of 155 scientists, physicians, and public health advocates signed an open letter calling on elected officials to end the "vilification and harassment...

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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...

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