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(MedPage Today) -- The chart note was brief: "Difficult patient. Frequent visits. Demands unnecessary tests." Before I met the patient, I already knew how the story was supposed to go. Every physician has encountered some version of this. A colleague...
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical...
(MedPage Today) -- When the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) passed its May 2026 resolution against disinformation, it marked a critical milestone in the field. By officially elevating misinformation to a top-tier priority, the organization...
(MedPage Today) -- Last December, after Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) activists drew up a petition to get him fired, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin pledged to release a formal agenda of MAHA priorities that his...
Older patients represent the fastest growing patient group in clinical care. They are a heterogeneous group, for whom evidence for making treatment decisions is often scarce. Important domains for advancing the relevance of clinical trials for older patients are selection and inclusion of representative patients, choosing appropriate therapeutic interventions, and studying relevant outcomes. In the last decade, a myriad of publications has recommended multiple solutions that improve the relevanc
(MedPage Today) -- International guidelines can help identify dermatomyositis patients with a particularly high risk for cancer, according to a retrospective single-center U.S. study. Among 413 patients with a known dermatomyositis diagnosis...
(MedPage Today) -- Increases in enterovirus infections in recent years were not associated with a rise in confirmed cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a rare polio-like neurologic condition, according to a CDC report. A total of 172 confirmed...
(MedPage Today) -- Scores of people in the U.S. have been sickened by a parasite commonly linked to contaminated fresh produce that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea. But there are ways to protect yourself and still enjoy summer's bounty of fruits...
(MedPage Today) -- Victims of the powerful twin earthquakes that jolted Venezuela last month as well as people spared by the destruction on Thursday flooded relief services offered by nongovernmental organizations in the hardest-hit areas. The...
(MedPage Today) -- When it comes to the use of physician-assisted suicide for hospice patients, more guardrails are needed to avoid discrimination against the vulnerable and disabled, several members of Congress told the Trump administration....
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(MedPage Today) -- Early nephrology consultations triggered by real-time machine-learning risk scores failed to prevent increases in peak serum creatinine among hospitalized patients at risk for severe acute kidney injury (AKI), a randomized trial...
(MedPage Today) -- A study of national insurance claims data showed that a fourth of patients with newly diagnosed cancers had a recent emergency department (ED) visit that resulted in nonspecific findings. (Trilliant Health) Accord BioPharma...
Public HealthSean Kaufman's views on vaccines may put him at odds with Sen. Bill Cassidy during next week's confirmation hearing.
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved pembrolizumab (Keytruda) or pembrolizumab and berahyaluronidase alfa (Keytruda Qlex) in combination with enfortumab vedotin (Padcev) as perioperative treatment for adults with muscle-invasive bladder cancer ...
(MedPage Today) -- Physicians are sounding the alarm about a dangerous social media trend involving NeeDoh that has kids being rushed to the hospital for scalding burns. Kids are heating up the sensory toy, even though it's not designed to be...
(MedPage Today) -- Variable weight-loss and cardiovascular benefits were seen with GLP-1 drugs in a systematic review and network meta-analysis, but effects on quality of life were less clear. Across 262 randomized studies published through November...
(MedPage Today) -- "Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding." -- Batman Begins If smearing their victims becomes fruitless, abusive men in the public eye follow a classic playbook: performative contrition and a tearful...
(MedPage Today) -- Children eligible for the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program and minority racial and ethnic groups were more likely to receive the recently shunned varicella-containing measles vaccine as their first dose of either immunization...
(MedPage Today) -- Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are becoming an increasingly relevant first-line treatment option for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). "ADCs are a fairly old class of drug that has really transformed the treatment...
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. New suspected Ebola cases have been reported in parts of Congo that were previously unaffected, as the death toll in the country's latest outbreak reached 600. ...
Public HealthARPA-H launches bespoke gene therapy push, Lilly and Novo to promote Bridge program, and more biotech news from The Readout
Public HealthGerman lawmakers passed a bill that would more than double the discount on branded medicines drugmakers must provide the government
Public HealthMassachusetts' biggest nursing strike ever, tackling the male loneliness epidemic, and other health news for Morning Rounds
Public HealthJeremy Faust saves lives in the ER and breaks stories with his Inside Medicine newsletter. He’s also testing the bounds of news reporting.
Public HealthAt a time when attention is deservedly being turned to the mental health crisis in boys, the Boys' Club of New York is a shelter from the storm for many…
Public Health“Solving the health crisis in the United States will require confronting things far harder than readjusting a fee schedule.”
Public HealthCDC Statement on Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda: July 10, 2026
In the context of worsening geopolitical turmoil, attacks on multilateralism, expanding emergency demands, declining financial resources for global health, and a reforming international system, it is timely for WHO to reassess its mandate, priorities, and comparative advantage in emergencies such as outbreaks, natural disasters, conflicts, and technological emergencies. The Accra Reset, UN80, Humanitarian Reset, the growth of regional public health institutions, and review of the global health a
In patients with previously treated chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, PVR showed significant improvement in progression-free survival compared with VR, with consistent results in patients who had previously received covalent BTK inhibitors and no new safety signals. To our knowledge, these results represent the first randomised phase 3 evidence comparing a novel fixed-duration regimen to the current standard of VR in relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, supporting PVR as a potentia