The True Miracle of Ivermectin
(MedPage Today) -- Last year, an inspiring milestone in global health went largely unnoticed in the U.S. How much do you want to bet it was even less …
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'The Pitt' Is Back for Another Harrowing 15-Hour Shift
(MedPage Today) -- When we first glimpse Noah Wyle's Michael Robinavitch -- aka Dr. Robby, of course -- in Season 2 of "The Pitt," he's looking darned…
Targeted Drug for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Sparks Early Enthusiasm
(MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO -- Almost 80% of patients with heavily pretreated advanced/metastatic pancreatic cancer achieved disease control with…
Opinion: The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned…
Wounded veterans cycle through Florida Keys for annual Soldier Ride
Wounded veterans cycled along the Overseas Highway, including the Seven Mile Bridge, as part of the annual Florida Keys Soldier Ride
New CDC Guidance Could Revive a Rare but Deadly Disease
(MedPage Today) -- The CDC's abrupt shift away from recommending routine meningococcal disease vaccination in childhood will leave more children and a…
South Carolina Measles Outbreak Grows by Nearly 100, Spreads to North Carolina, Ohio
(MedPage Today) -- South Carolina's measles outbreak exploded into one of the worst in the U.S., with state health officials confirming 99 new cases i…
Trump Bill May Result in Over a Million Missed Cancer Screenings
(MedPage Today) -- Projected losses in Medicaid coverage as a result of President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" could result in more than 1 million…
Some Flu Measures Decline, but It's Not Clear This Severe Season Has Peaked
(MedPage Today) -- U.S. flu infections showed signs of a slight decline last week, but health officials say it is not clear that this severe flu seaso…
STAT+: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings
From new hires to departures, promotions and transfers, here are the latest comings and goings in the pharmaceutical industry. Hired someone new and e…
Lawmakers Aim to Block Expansion of Prior Auth in Traditional Medicare
(MedPage Today) -- Lawmakers on Thursday explored the merits of a bill that would block the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from implem…
U.S. Guidelines Endorse At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening
(MedPage Today) -- New federal guidelines from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) now include the option for women ages 30 to 65 …
Kate Middleton's Chemo; SGLT2 Inhibitors and Prostate Cancer; New Myeloma Guidance
(MedPage Today) -- Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, opened up about her experience with chemotherapy during a visit to a London hospital. (ABC N…
Alzheimer's Risk May Be Driven by a Single Gene
(MedPage Today) -- Most Alzheimer's disease and nearly half of all dementia was associated with variations in the APOE gene, a study of 470,000 older …
Addressing Patient Emotions in Vaccine Conversations
(MedPage Today) -- In "Beyond Diagnosis: Vaccines," Cleveland Clinic infectious disease specialist Donald Dumford, MD, and host John Mangels explore h…
December Deals: US Signs Bilateral Health Agreements with 14 African Countries – With Some Key Exceptions
Over December, the United States signed bilateral health co-operation agreements with 14 African countries, setting out the parameters for aid in exch…
Surgery Beats GLP-1 Drugs for Fat Loss, Muscle Retention, Study Suggests
(MedPage Today) -- Bariatric surgery and GLP-1 receptor agonists both reduced fat mass over 2 years of treatment, but surgery was associated with a mo…
Opportunistic Cholesterol Gene Screens: Good in Theory Only?
(MedPage Today) -- A small pilot program was not enough to prove that opportunistic genomic screening for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) put a den…
FDA Moves to 'Get Out of the Way' of Wearables, AI in the Clinic
(MedPage Today) -- At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, announced that his agency issued two new gui…
Gang Violence Forces Doctors Without Borders to Suspend Services at Haiti Clinic
(MedPage Today) -- Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday that it was suspending services at a clinic in a violent neighborhood of H…
STAT+: Former NIH genomics director Eric Green to join Illumina as CMO
And other biotech news brought to you by The Readout newsletter Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get …
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a potential Merck purchase, a J&J pricing deal with Trump, and more
Merck is in talks to buy cancer drug developer Revolution Medicines in a deal that may be worth $28 billion to $32 billion And so, another working wee…
Health Myths Debunked; Astronaut's Medical Crisis; GLP-1 for Psoriatic Arthritis
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Doctors debunked five women's health myths on mammograms, menopause,…
STAT+: Confused by the new food pyramid? So are nutrition experts
And more health news from Morning Rounds today Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Si…
I Deserve to Feel Safe Where I Train and Learn
(MedPage Today) -- America has a gun violence epidemic; we all know that. However, as the number of shootings outnumber the days in a year, the idea o…
STAT+: Key scientist from Baby KJ team launches startup to scale personalized CRISPR medicines
The gene therapy success with Baby KJ, along with a new FDA program, have companies more interested in treating rare disease. In between bites of thin…
When it comes to vaccine schedules, the U.S. is now the outlier
A STAT analysis of vaccine recommendations in 38 countries suggests the U.S. is now an outlier. The U.S. childhood vaccination schedule has been drama…
Opinion: New York’s aid-in-dying law is missing something: the doctors who can make it work
A New York law grants patients the right to request aid in dying. But do the clinicians who guide them through that decision have the training to do s…
STAT+: As more patients order lab tests online, doctors don’t know what to do with the results
Hoping to catch serious illnesses early, more Americans are ordering lab tests online, but their doctors don't know what to do with the results. About…