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Patients can understand that medication is necessary and still struggle with what taking it means.

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Health policy experts John McDonough and Stuart Butler debate where the U.S. medical system went wrong — and how to fix it.

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Was molecular biologist David Sabatini a manipulative mentor who coerced a younger colleague into sex? Or was he the victim of a spurned former lover?

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U.S. health officials are moving ahead with a plan to allow specialty pharmacies to produce certain peptides, a class of largely unregulated injections favored by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy…

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Stephen Hoge and Dean Li, at the STAT Summit, spoke of how Merck and Moderna will pair Keytruda with personalized mRNA vaccines to target tumors.

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At the STAT Summit, the Department of Justice offered up a warning for health care executives: Don’t be another Theranos.

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Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) has some advice for fellow lawmakers: unapologetically support the biotech industry.

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Former FDA commissioners Rob Califf (Obama and Biden administrations), Scott Gottlieb, and Ned Sharpless (both from the first Trump administration) criticized the officials who ran the agency during a massive…

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Verastem Oncology reports encouraging early results for its KRAS G12D inhibitor, which it’s studying in more than 200 patients with advanced solid tumors like metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and non-small…

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(MedPage Today) -- LOS ANGELES -- Despite assertions to the contrary, students who use artificial intelligence (AI) in medical school assignments or elsewhere are not cheating, according to one professor here at the Association of Health Care...

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A schoolteacher diagnosed with melanoma provides an inside look at what it was like to be treated with a cancer vaccine developed by Merck and Moderna.

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(MedPage Today) -- U.S. health officials are moving ahead with a plan to allow specialty pharmacies to produce certain peptides, a class of largely unregulated injections that have become popular among followers of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy...

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Three former FDA chiefs lit into the Trump administration, criticizing the now former FDA officials who oversaw a massive staff exodus

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In this edition of STAT's Health Tech newsletter: The groups vying to shape regulations that'd govern state AI sandboxes, and more.

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(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to Culture Clinic, MedPage Today's collaboration with Northwell Health to offer a healthcare professional's take on the latest viral medical topics. Two decades ago, makeover shows dominated reality TV, but one show...

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(MedPage Today) -- Patients with non-erosive reflux disease (NERD) who took once-daily tegoprazan -- a novel, fast-acting, oral potassium-competitive acid blocker (P-CAB) -- had a significant reduction in heartburn frequency, a phase III trial...

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(MedPage Today) -- An emerging technique called spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) proved its mettle for evaluating skin fibrosis in systemic sclerosis (SSc), also called scleroderma, in an early clinical study. Comparing SFDI parameters...

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Kenya reports a second Ebola case. Meanwhile, the situation in Congo is still quite dire. Authorities have confirmed more than 4,000 deaths and 9,000 cases as officials have struggled to…

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On Wall Street, the real trouble for biotech, and the reason for investor angst, lies below the surface.

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(MedPage Today) -- The issue of cancer risk in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) continues to attract the attention of researchers and clinicians despite having been studied fairly extensively. Early studies, based primarily on case reports...

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(MedPage Today) -- For those who want to try the new mRNA flu shot (mFlusiva) this season, tracking it down might take some work, experts said. Moderna's shot was only approved in August, for all adults ages 50 and older, long after national retail...

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(MedPage Today) -- The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Is that a night shift nurse or a ghost? Intensive care unit nurse Blake Lynch, RN, got in the spooky spirit...

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(MedPage Today) -- Open enrollment for Medicare plans begins Thursday and enrollees will face a slew of changes that go into effect in 2027. During the enrollment period, which ends Dec. 7, people will have the opportunity to choose between traditional...

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(MedPage Today) -- Rates of amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) in Alzheimer's disease patients treated with lecanemab (Leqembi) in the real world were consistent with those seen in clinical trials, data from the LEADER study showed....

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(MedPage Today) -- For medium vessel occlusion strokes, perfusion mismatch ratio predicted follow-up infarct volume, a multinational trial showed, supporting a role similar to that in large vessel occlusion. In the 94 isolated M2-segment occlusion...

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(MedPage Today) -- The husband of late Pennsylvania pediatrician Julia Pederson, MD, has been accused of strangling her and setting her on fire. (Local 21 News) Former oncologist Farid Fata, MD, is once again seeking early release after being...

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(MedPage Today) -- For the first time in more than a quarter-century, Americans have a new option when shopping for sunscreen: a skin-protecting chemical that's long been a go-to option in Europe and other parts of the world. The FDA approved...

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(MedPage Today) -- Researchers found that late-night eating -- after dinner or bedtime -- was associated with a 28% increased risk for liver cirrhosis and a 36% higher risk for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD...

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