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(MedPage Today) -- SAN ANTONIO -- Preoperative radiotherapy (RT) plus PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) significantly increased immune activation and tumor ...

‘Terrible Distortion of All the Facts’: What We Heard This Week

(MedPage Today) -- "What you have said is a terrible, terrible distortion of all the facts." -- CDC Advisory Committee ...

I Co-Discovered HIV. Here Are Lessons to Help Prepare for the Next Threat.

(MedPage Today) -- Science progresses when people share what they learn, not when they retreat behind borders or institutions. That ...

Popular Holiday Beverages High In Sugar May Cause Damage

Share on PinterestMany popular holiday beverages are high in sugar and may damage bone health. Image Credit: Tamara Evsiukova/StocksyMany popular ...

No Increased Breast Cancer Risk With Menopausal Estrogen in BRCA Carriers

(MedPage Today) -- SAN ANTONIO -- Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) did not increase breast cancer risk in women with BRCA ...

How Were GLP-1 Drugs and Bone Health Linked?

(MedPage Today) -- You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/quizzes/news-quiz/118994 ...

Pain and Functioning; AI Decision Support for Stroke Treatment

(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for ...

Fragile Students Won’t Last in Medicine

(MedPage Today) -- When I first read about the Samantha Fulnecky and Mel Curth debacle that captivated the nation last ...

Florida Plows Ahead on Push to Roll Back Certain Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren

(MedPage Today) -- Florida officials are plowing ahead with a proposal to roll back certain vaccine mandates for the state's ...

One GLP-1 Drug May Be Better Than Rivals for Glaucoma Risk

(MedPage Today) -- Use of the dual GIP/GLP-1 drug tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) was associated with a significantly reduced risk of ...

Doctor strike during flu outbreak would be ‘beyond belief’, says Starmer

EPASir Keir Starmer has urged resident doctors not to go ahead with "reckless" strikes planned for next week, saying it ...

Why are sperm donors having hundreds of children?

James Gallagher,Health and science correspondentandCatherine Snowdon,Health reporterGettySome men are having vast numbers of children through sperm donation. This week the ...

Survival Is Possible With Resuscitation in Some Extremely Premature Infants

(MedPage Today) -- More than a third of resuscitated infants born alive at 21 weeks' gestational age -- an age ...

CDC Says Kids’ COVID Shots Reduced Emergency Department Visits

(MedPage Today) -- COVID vaccines for the 2024-2025 season provided protection against COVID-associated emergency department (ED) and urgent care visits ...

Anticoagulant Reversal Drug Pulled From U.S. Market

(MedPage Today) -- Andexanet alfa (Andexxa) will officially be taken off the U.S. market this month as an emergency reversal ...

Study Makes the Case for Replacing Annual Breast Cancer Screening

(MedPage Today) -- SAN ANTONIO -- Risk-based breast cancer screening proved noninferior for detecting clinically significant tumors in a randomized ...

Some Health Plans Automatically Downcode Office Visit Claims

(MedPage Today) -- Several insurers are automatically downcoding -- and, therefore, paying less for -- claims for non-procedural office visits, ...

Myasthenia Gravis Gets a New Drug Approval

(MedPage Today) -- The FDA expanded the indication of inebilizumab (Uplizna) to include generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG), Amgen announced Friday. ...

The King’s Cancer Speech; Multiple Studies Retracted; Mass Sperm Donor Had TP53 Gene