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Family handoutSusan was no more than puzzled when she saw the first results from her home DNA testing kit.Now a woman in her mid 70s, she had never known much ...

(MedPage Today) -- For a balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR or TAVI) platform, the much-litigated Myval performed well enough in the COMPARE-TAVI 1 randomized trial, but its rates of ...

(MedPage Today) -- Diabetes patients on dulaglutide (Trulicity) had better glycemic control and more weight loss if they switched to tirzepatide (Mounjaro) rather than increasing the dose of the earlier-generation ...

(MedPage Today) -- This week's cuts to HHS staffing have left employees at one agency division wondering what will become of all of their research. "One of the conversations I ...

(MedPage Today) -- In an analysis of Medicare's top-selling brand-name oncology drugs, researchers found that while the vast majority provided high added therapeutic benefit, 10 were classified as providing low ...

Wikipedia is under threat from the AI boomChris Dorney / Alamy Wikipedia is one of the greatest knowledge resources ever assembled, containing crowdsourced contributions from millions of humans worldwide – ...

In women with signs of ischemia but no obstructive coronary artery disease (OCAD), intensive medical therapy did not reduce the first occurrence of a major cardiovascular event in the WARRIOR ...

Some spider species eat their siblings, especially when food is scarceDavid VILLA/SCIENCEIMAGE CBI CNRS A species of spider avoids cannibalising its siblings while they are alive, but does not seem ...

(MedPage Today) -- Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with glioma had a high concordance with tumor DNA and showed potentially useful prognostic potential, a small ...

(MedPage Today) -- Poison control centers have received more reports of vitamin A exposures than usual -- a trend that lines up with the growing measles outbreaks in Texas and ...

Honeybees are vulnerable to seasonal die-offsNicholas Klein/Alamy Honeybees in the US may have just experienced their most severe die-off on record, and we don’t know exactly why. “As of right ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the B-cell depleting agent inebilizumab-cdon (Uplizna, Amgen) for the treatment of immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD). This is the first and only treatment ...

Turbines extract energy from wind, slowing down the wind in their wakeChris James / Alamy Imagine you have just built yourself a lovely new house with an unobstructed view of ...

(MedPage Today) -- For children with febrile urinary tract infection (UTI), stopping antibiotic treatment 3 days after clinical improvement increased the risk of recurrence but reduced antibiotic use and related ...

(MedPage Today) -- Use of large language model (LLM)-generated plain language summaries for ophthalmology notes was associated with improved understanding and satisfaction among non-ophthalmology clinicians, a randomized quality improvement study... ...

(MedPage Today) -- A federal judge will temporarily block President Trump's administration from cutting billions in federal dollars that support COVID-19 initiatives and public health projects throughout the country. U.S. ...

(MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration fired the entire staff of the CDC Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice, which among other duties investigated the origin of cancer clusters. ...

(MedPage Today) -- The CDC's Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) was eliminated in its entirety during the mass layoffs at HHS this week, sources told MedPage Today. Hundreds of ...

(MedPage Today) -- A 60-year-old patient of mine was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. He described the treatment options that were discussed with him -- surgery or radiation -- and ...

The US anti-vaccine movement is now firmly embedded in the highest levels of government, where those overseeing public health agencies are making drastic cuts both wide and deep Source link ...