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(MedPage Today) -- The body of oncologist Dmitriy Zak, MD, was recovered from an Arkansas lake on Tuesday morning, 2 days after he was reported missing. An autopsy will be performed. (White River Now) A doctor from Brazil was accused of pulling...
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Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents obtained by The Associated Press and The Guardian refute that testimony.
The European Society of Cardiology Congress that kicks off Friday in Munich will be a consequential meeting for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.
A personalized cancer vaccine developed by Moderna and Merck may be a triumph of immunology and cancer biology. It might also be the triumph of an algorithm.
KFF Health News examines how sheriffs are spending opioid settlement money, finds they're spending millions on police gear.
Inside health systems' efforts to mitigate massive funding cuts.
(MedPage Today) -- Starting a GLP-1 receptor agonist was associated with significantly lower risks of death and cardiovascular events in adults with serious mental illness (SMI), a target trial emulation showed. Among 195,184 propensity score...
(MedPage Today) -- Should Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes be free for all patients and clinicians to use? That's the question being asked in a recent lawsuit against the American Medical Association (AMA), which holds the copyright to...
(MedPage Today) -- Almost 80% of patients with early-stage rectal cancer remained surgery-free for a year or longer after treatment with chemoradiation therapy (CRT), a large randomized study showed. Among 341 patients who chose not to have upfront...
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA expanded the approval of dolutegravir tablets for oral suspension (Tivicay PD) to include newborns with HIV infections younger than 4 weeks of age, the agency announced on Tuesday. In combination with other antiretroviral...
(MedPage Today) -- Americans continue to seek unregulated psychedelic treatment abroad despite mounting reports of severe health complications and fatalities. (New York Times) Meanwhile, state-regulated psilocybin services in Oregon have been...
(MedPage Today) -- The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has brought renewed attention to global outbreak preparedness and the perilous conditions frontline healthcare workers face. This MedPage Today interview...
Kennedy has blamed others for declining vaccination rates, and downplayed the dangers of measles.
(MedPage Today) -- For opioid overdose survivors, starting methadone was associated with a reduced risk of death during the subsequent year compared with starting buprenorphine-naloxone, a retrospective cohort study from Canada suggested. Using...
The increasingly popular coronary artery calcium scan is helpful in guiding statin use in only a small share of cases, new studies find.
