Suspected Ebola patient placed in Equatorial Guinea hotel with deportees from the US, lawyers say
Migrants deported from the U.S. and detained in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea say authorities have used the facility to quarantine a suspected Ebola pa…
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Targeted Therapy Reverses Weight Gain From Rare Cause of Obesity
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Newer Diabetes Drugs, Including GLP-1 Agonists, Tied to Autoimmunity Risk
(MedPage Today) -- Analysis of hundreds of thousands of patient records showed differing risks for autoimmune disorders for new users of the more rece…
'A Big, Black Hole': Katie Couric Opens Up About the Day Her Memory Vanished
(MedPage Today) -- Journalist Katie Couric recently shared her experience of sudden memory loss that persisted for several hours during a recent trip …
In 20 Different Cancers, Men More Likely to Be Diagnosed at a Later Stage
(MedPage Today) -- Men had a higher likelihood than women for late-stage diagnosis of 20 different types of cancer, data from a national registry netw…
Whistleblower takes on health insurance and FDA commissioner candidates
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HHS Moves to Create List of COVID Vaccine Injuries
(MedPage Today) -- HHS is paving the way to create an injury table for COVID countermeasures -- such as vaccines -- under the Countermeasures Injury C…
I Survived an Earthquake. Here's What to Know Following Venezuela's Disaster.
(MedPage Today) -- Following the June 24 twin earthquakes, magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, that struck northern Venezuela 39 seconds apart, the death toll now…
Liver Transplant Studies Retracted Over Organ Harvesting Concerns
(MedPage Today) -- Two Chinese studies related to liver transplantation published more than a decade ago in the Journal of Hepatology were retracted b…
Is Erling Haaland's 6,000-Calorie Diet Healthy?
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Meet the Doctor for the New York Knicks
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Explosive Diarrhea's Nemesis; On Call at Ariana Grande Concert; RN's Netflix Trailer
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Common Drugs Basically Flunk for Long COVID Fatigue
(MedPage Today) -- An anti-inflammatory pill and the combination of a heartburn drug and an antihistamine marginally improved severe long COVID fatigu…
How Real-World Data on Bispecifics Could Shape Follicular Lymphoma Practice
(MedPage Today) -- Real-world data presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting reinforced the effectiveness and safet…
Rubbing Alcohol Injection Suit; Doc Gets 20 Years; Research Beagle Raid Charges
(MedPage Today) -- Oregon podiatrist Colin Mizuo, DPM, allegedly injected rubbing alcohol instead of an anesthetic as he removed a woman's toenails, a…
An Equitable Pandemic Agreement is a Global Public Good
As the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group reconvenes in Geneva in the quest to nail down an accord on Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS), the…
Outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite grows to more than 1,000 cases
An outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite has grown to more than 1,000 cases, making it one of the nation’s largest such outbreaks in years. NEW YORK —…
STAT+: ARPA-H launches $160 million effort to develop custom gene editing drugs
An ARPA-H program to jump-start custom gene editing treatments was delayed by a change in administrations. Now seven labs will get sizable grants. ARP…
STAT+: FDA finalists under review
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German Doctor Sentenced to Life for Murdering 15 Patients Under Palliative Care
(MedPage Today) -- A Berlin court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a German doctor to life in prison on charges of murdering 15 of his patients wh…
GLP-1s and Liver Cancer Recurrence; IBS Acupuncture; Transmural Healing in Crohn's
(MedPage Today) -- Diabetes patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) experienced longer time to HCC recurrence and longer survival when they initi…
'The Pitt' Actors Get Over a Dozen Emmy Nominations
(MedPage Today) -- With its ensemble of doctors, nurses, interns, and patients squeezed together into a small emergency department (ED) with scripts t…
STAT+: Prime wins Beam arbitration, clearing path to clinic
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Cancer Surge Coming; Trump on Mitch McConnell; Last Iron-Lunged American Dies
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about FDA commissioner contenders, a heart drug failure, and more
The White House is reviewing a list of three top contenders for the FDA commissioner post Good morning, Jason Mast here filling in for Ed Silverman ag…
STAT+: OpenEvidence backs study that finds it beats LLMs
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Eye Specialists Flag Concerns About Pricey Lenses in Cataract Surgery
(MedPage Today) -- Patients undergoing cataract surgery are often given the choice of a standard lens that's covered by insurance, or "upgrading" to a…
World must move faster on Ebola response for DR Congo: UN relief chief
The world must move faster to contain the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UN relief chief Tom Fletcher said on Thursday…
Who’s going to run the FDA?
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STAT+: 931 days. The drug approval scandal hiding in plain sight
Two years, six months, and 18 days have elapsed since Northwest Biotherapeutics submitted its brain cancer treatment for regulatory approval. This sto…
Ebola deaths in Congo reach 600; new cases suspected in previously unaffected area
New suspected Ebola cases have been reported in previously unaffected parts of Congo, according to the government
STAT+: AstraZeneca, Ionis report major trial failure with heart disease drug
AstraZeneca and Ionis reported a notable trial failure Thursday in a heart disease that's become an increasingly competitive market for drugmakers. LO…