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(MedPage Today) -- While taking oral menopausal hormone therapy, women faced increased thrombotic risks that varied by the method of use, dosage, and duration of treatment, a nationwide study from Denmark showed. Venous thromboembolic risk remained...

(MedPage Today) -- Congo is running short of health workers to staff treatment centers for history's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak, particularly in the eastern province of North Kivu where cases have surged 73% over 3 weeks, the World Health Organization...

(MedPage Today) -- The practice of allowing a doctor to help terminally ill patients end their lives with medication has been legalized in recent years in several countries across the world. In the U.S., New York and Illinois recently became the...

(MedPage Today) -- John Gaitanis, MD, who was recently appointed the new chair of the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), co-founded a company that provides leucovorin to families of children with autism. Meadow Biosciences...

(MedPage Today) -- Older age should not discourage healthy women with a genetic risk for ovarian cancer from considering risk-reducing bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO), investigators in a study of BRCA carriers concluded. A 30-year-old BRCA1...

(MedPage Today) -- The FDA issued a warning letter this month to Empower Pharmacy over its mass production of compounded GLP-1 weight-loss and diabetes drugs, citing illegal copycat manufacturing and insanitary conditions. Following a facility...

(MedPage Today) -- Nearly one-third of people who tested positive for the bacteria that cause Lyme disease also tested positive for other tick-borne pathogens, according to a retrospective cohort study. Among 193,260 people tested for tick-borne...

(MedPage Today) -- Most Americans 50 and older said they would be interested in receiving a vaccine that could reduce their risk of dementia if they were at high risk, survey data showed. Nearly three in four survey respondents (72.1%) said they...

(MedPage Today) -- Xenon Pharmaceuticals said it paused enrollment in its major depressive disorder and bipolar depression trials after unexpected neuropsychiatric adverse events emerged. Many mental health and suicide risk indicators among youth...

(MedPage Today) -- A line could be drawn between how much ultraprocessed food a person eats and their risk of major chronic diseases, according to a meta-analysis. Covering 51 prospective cohort studies and over 8.8 million participants, there...

(MedPage Today) -- By the end of my first 24-hour shift (but more like 28 hours if we're being honest) in my third year of medical school, I'd seen two C-sections, and that's as much as I remember. I'm not sure what else happened that night; the...

(MedPage Today) -- HHS moved $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the rising cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Wall Street Journal) A Washington meeting for Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again...

(MedPage Today) -- At the end of my day, it's time to finally close all my notes, wrap things up after all those patient visits. I settle back down in my desk chair, and start to get things to the point where I can close (and bill) those notes...

(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Gias Foods of New York City is recalling two lots of Bettergoods Authentic Italian Lemon Alfredo Fettuccine because it has the potential to be contaminated with...

(MedPage Today) -- Hospitalizations complicated by acute kidney injury (AKI) surged among patients in pediatric units or children's hospitals over the past 25 years, a large retrospective study indicated. Among more than 24.3 million discharges...

(MedPage Today) -- The overall cancer mortality rate in the U.S. declined by 35% between 1991 and 2024, resulting in almost 5 million cancer deaths averted, according to the 2026 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Cancer Progress Report...

(MedPage Today) -- Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled...

(MedPage Today) -- So-called low-value orthopedic procedures, such as vertebroplasty for patients with asymptomatic spinal fractures, may be performed on veterans at dramatically different rates from one place to another, analysis of Medicare data...

(MedPage Today) -- The CDC is indeed working with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) on a definition for measles deaths, but the initiative was launched earlier this year and it was not at the request of the CDC. That...

(MedPage Today) -- On August 26, Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over the next decade and impose new protections for young users of Facebook and Instagram. The agreement includes default time limits, overnight blocks, restrictions on school...