To Find Living Donors for Kidney Transplants, Pilot Program Turns to Social Networks
(MedPage Today) -- Fernando Moreno has been on dialysis for about 2 years, enduring an "unbearable" wait for a new ...
Burnley Student, 16, thought she had flu but was told she had cancer
Lynette HorsburghNorth WestCancer Research UK handoutSophie Claxton says it was a huge shock being told she had cancerA student who ...
What’s really going on with flu this winter?
James GallagherHealth and science correspondentGetty ImagesFlu should always be taken seriously. It is a virus that kills thousands of people ...
‘Revolutionary’ Change Needed to Address Intractable Healthcare Issue, Experts Say
(MedPage Today) -- Radical change is needed to eliminate health inequities in the U.S., argued policy experts during the launch ...
‘A Disgrace’: Feds to Slash the Number of Recommended Vaccines, Reports Say
(MedPage Today) -- HHS plans to remove a number of recommended vaccines from the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule early next ...
Military Will Stop Shooting Pigs and Goats to Train Battlefield Medics
(MedPage Today) -- The U.S. military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for ...
‘Rotten Tomatoes’ for FDA, Pharma; Cancer Trial Halted; Cooked Food Tops Fresh
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA and four drug companies, one with a link to oncology, received 2025 "Rotten Tomatoes" awards ...
Higher-Dose Aflibercept Similar to Standard Dose in Severe AMD Variant
(MedPage Today) -- A higher and less frequent dose of aflibercept (Eylea) was noninferior to the standard dose for the ...
Convenience Is Quietly Undermining Physician Autonomy
(MedPage Today) -- A few days ago, a recruiter pitched me a W-2 clinical role. When I mentioned preferring to ...
Liver Disease Medication Linked to Lower Cancer Risks
(MedPage Today) -- Treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in adults with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) was associated with significantly lower ...
Resident doctors in Scotland to go on strike for first time
Lisa Summers,Scotland health and social care correspondentandCatherine Lyst,BBC ScotlandGetty ImagesScotland's resident doctors are to go on strike in a dispute ...
Proton Therapy for Oropharyngeal Cancer Makes a Case for Standard of Care
(MedPage Today) -- Proton radiotherapy (RT) for oropharyngeal cancer matched conventional photon therapy for slowing disease progression and led to ...
Lyme Created in a Lab? ‘Wild Pregnancies’; Diabetes Program Flopped
(MedPage Today) -- The following is a transcript of the podcast episode: Rachael Robertson: Hey everybody, welcome to MedPod Today, ...
Issue of Healthcare Rises Sharply as Americans’ Priority for Government to Address
(MedPage Today) -- Julia Dvorak is worried her 83-year-old mother's trips to the emergency department for seizures are depleting her ...
CDC Gives Danish Researchers $1.6M to Study Hep B Vaccine Birth Dose in Africa
(MedPage Today) -- Researchers have raised concerns about an unusual federal grant made to Danish researchers to study the hepatitis ...
Light Therapy for Dry AMD: What Do We Know?
(MedPage Today) -- Armed with a recent authorization from the FDA, eye specialists are offering light therapy to patients with ...
Young people to be hit hardest by UK’s ageing society, report suggests
Young people will be hit hardest by successive governments' failure to focus on financial and societal challenges caused by an ...
Putting data centres in space isn’t going to happen any time soon
Starcloud wants to build a data centre satellite that is 4 kilometres by 4 kilometresStarcloud Could AI’s insatiable thirst for ...
Deaths Prompt Clinical Trial Hold; $8,000 Scorpion Bite; The Next COVID Vaccine
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. After patient deaths from interstitial lung disease in ...
The US beat back bird flu in 2025 – but the battle isn’t over
Millions of chickens have been culled due to the threat of bird fluEmily Elconin/Bloomberg via Getty Images The US experienced ...
