Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Med Is Not
About 94% of the largest-ever pool of applicants learned on this year’s Match Day, March 21, that they had been ...
U.S. Tuberculosis Cases Rose to Their Highest Levels in More Than a Dozen Years
(MedPage Today) -- Tuberculosis (TB) continued to rise again in the U.S. last year, reaching its highest levels in more ...
Public Health, Environmental Experts Decry EPA Rule Rollbacks
(MedPage Today) -- Public health experts and environmentalists expressed alarm Thursday at the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recently announced cuts ...
First Drug Approved for Ultra-Rare Kidney Disease
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved iptacopan (Fabhalta) as the first treatment to reduce proteinuria in adults with complement 3 ...
Think Twice Before Quitting Oral Anticoagulants After Afib Ablation?
(MedPage Today) -- For people with atrial fibrillation (Afib or AF), stopping oral anticoagulation (OAC) after a "successful" catheter ablation ...
Match Rates Hold Steady as Applicants Reach Record High
(MedPage Today) -- The 2025 Match cycle reached another all-time high with an increase of 4.1% applicants over last year's ...
Why it would be utter madness to stop funding mRNA vaccine technology
Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine uses mRNA technologyImago/Alamy This week, researchers in the US were told to remove all references to mRNA ...
Scan Failures Leading to Delayed Diagnoses, Says Ombudsman
Repeated failures in interpreting medical scans have led to delayed cancer diagnoses, unnecessary surgeries, and avoidable deaths, England’s health Ombudsman ...
Vutrisiran Snags FDA Approval for TTR Amyloidosis Cardiomyopathy
(MedPage Today) -- Gene-silencing therapy vutrisiran (Amvuttra) graduated to a broad indication in treatment of transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy, as Alnylam ...
‘Leaning In’ to a Fresh Start in Residency
(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to MedPage Today's "White Coat Chronicles," a short-form feature series where we follow Emilie "Mia" Mathura, ...
Newer Biologics Tied to Fewer Infections for Older Patients With Psoriatic Disease
(MedPage Today) -- Biologics targeting interleukin (IL)-12, IL-23, and IL-17 were associated with a lower rate of serious infections among ...
Prototaxites: Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life
Prototaxites formed tall structures like tree trunks, shown in this illustration of a landscape from the Silurian PeriodRICHARD JONES/SCIENCE PHOTO ...
Health Agencies Remain in the Dark About Next Round of Firings
(MedPage Today) -- A week has passed since federal agency leaders were supposed to submit plans for reductions-in-force (RIFs) and ...
FDA Expands Vutrisiran Indication to ATTR-Cardiomyopathy
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental new drug application for vutrisiran for the treatment of ...
Lancaster baby’s death due to midwives’ gross failures, coroner rules
Michael BuchananSocial affairs correspondent, BBC NewsPA MediaIda Lock died a week after she suffered serious brain injuries around the time ...
NASA has made the first radio telescope observations on the moon
The Odysseus spacecraft as it approached the moonIntuitive Machines The first successful use of a radio telescope on the moon ...
‘Chubby filter’ pulled from TikTok after user backlash
Tom Gerken & Tom SingletonTechnology reportersKayleigh GrestySadie said she didn't think the filter should be allowed on TikTok without some ...
Keeping the ‘Yum’ While Fighting Obesity in Pediatrics
In the early days of the pandemic, Becca Saul, MSN, ACNP, remembers the alarm she felt as obesity rates among ...
Ob/Gyn as CDC Director? ACIP Meeting Back On; Calls for Dr. Oz to Pay $400K in Taxes
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers ...
USAID Cuts Threaten Efforts to Tackle TB in Ukraine
Experts have raised concerns about Ukraine’s ability to tackle its tuberculosis (TB) epidemic following the collapse of the United States ...
