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(MedPage Today) -- The FDA granted premarket approval to a gastric balloon system for short-term weight loss alongside lifestyle intervention, ...

More Residency Slots Needed in Rural Areas, Lawmakers and Health Experts Say

(MedPage Today) -- Putting more residency training slots in rural areas is key to increasing access to healthcare among rural ...

As Measles Cases Pass 1,000 for the Year, Experts Urge Vaccination

U.S. measles cases have topped 1,000 just 2 months into 2026, and outbreaks persist in a number of states, namely ...

Semaglutide Not Linked to Depression Symptoms in People With HIV

(MedPage Today) -- DENVER -- People with HIV didn't have a significant rise in depressive symptoms after starting semaglutide (Ozempic, ...

Price Controls ‘Inevitable’ in U.S. Healthcare, Economist Says

(MedPage Today) -- In a new series, MedPage Today is asking healthcare economists and policy experts the same questions about ...

Too Much Weight Loss With Retatrutide? Transgender Doc Sued; Ice Age Growth Disorder

(MedPage Today) -- Some participants in a weight-loss trial of retatrutide, an investigational triple-hormone receptor agonist, dropped out because they ...

Checking the Facts on Trump’s Claims About Healthcare Issues in Greenland

(MedPage Today) -- President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post Saturday that he would deploy a hospital ship ...

New Acute PE Classification; Cardiac Xenografting Consensus; Novel VTE Biomarkers

(MedPage Today) -- New American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines for acute pulmonary embolism (PE) introduced a five-tier disease ...

Is Autism Preventable? Restless Leg Drugs Under Fire; Birding and the Brain

(MedPage Today) -- Is autism preventable? Some hypotheses suggest the interplay between genes and environmental factors may contribute to autism ...

I Was a CDC Senior Leader. From What I Saw, No One Should Run Two Agencies.

(MedPage Today) -- Running a major federal health agency is a significant, high-stakes leadership role, particularly during an outbreak or ...

Study Documents Dramatic Rise of Throat Cancer in People With HIV

(MedPage Today) -- Rates of oropharyngeal cancer among people with HIV have jumped since 2000, particularly heterosexual men ages 50 ...

Cannibalism may explain why some orcas stay in family groups

Orcas may be at risk of predation by other orcasFrancois Gohie/VWPics/Alamy Biologists have seen signs of orca-on-orca predation in the ...

What to Know About Chronic Cough in Patients Taking GLP-1s

Rates of the side effect appear to be increasing, but it’s not yet clear why. Medscape Medical News Source link ...

Sleep Apnea Measure Predicts Complications After Major Surgery

The sleep apnea-specific hypoxic burden metric correlated with 30-day postoperative mortality and cardiovascular complications among obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients ...

Reining in Overdiagnosis of Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Easier Said Than Done

(MedPage Today) -- As many as 94% of ultrasound-based papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) diagnoses represented overdiagnosis, particularly among women, according ...

GPs told to guarantee same-day appointments for urgent cases

New contract will require patients in England to be given immediate appointment if needed. Source link : https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm28vp0pkzro?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss Author : ...

How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war