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The FDA should require negative studies of a new drug to be included in the product's labeling -- not just those studies with a beneficial finding -- to prevent physicians and consumers from being misled about the dru...
Prenatal exposure to acid-suppressive drugs did not have a clear association with the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in childhood, a South Korean cohort study suggested. While prenatal exposure to aci...
In a June 18 opinion piece in MedPage Today, Anthony LoSasso, PhD, a health economist who served on NIH study sections for 12 years, took issue with a recent New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) editorial that criti...
Use and misuse of GLP-1 receptor agonists were common in people with eating disorders, interim results of an ongoing cross-sectional study suggested. Among over 400 people with eating disorders, 32.1% said they have u...
Last week, news broke that an influenza outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas had caused around 160 people to become sick. The timing was both bizarre and not. On one hand, the U.S. armed forces ended its flu v...
One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who was assigned female at birth, told his parents he was a boy -- and would be using he/him pronouns....
Despite political warnings and legal challenges, there's still a push to keep HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine agenda alive -- but it has shifted largely out of public view. Kennedy allies are "embedding...
The federal government can't block benefits from the nation's largest food aid program from being used to buy candy, soda, and other sugary drinks, a judge ruled. Monday's ruling scuttles restrictions now in place or...
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) subpoenaed Anthony Fauci, MD, to appear before the Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs next month. (The Hill) A b...
People exposed to higher levels of daytime light had a lower risk of dementia, prospective data from 88,000 U.K. Biobank participants showed. Over 8 years of follow-up, people who had an average daytime light exposure...
The COVID vaccine study that was suppressed by the acting CDC director earlier this year has now been published in a JAMA journal. The case-control study showed that the estimated vaccine effectiveness (VE) rate durin...
The emergence of immunotherapy for esophageal cancer provided a glimmer of hope to patients and clinicians affected by the historically poor-prognosis disease. The glimmer has not only persisted but perhaps grown brig...
Improved understanding of the tumor microenvironment and genomics has fueled a new generation of therapies that could lead to better outcomes for esophageal cancer. Some of those therapies have already made the leap f...
More than 240 physicians and advanced practice providers from dozens of Banner Health locations throughout the Phoenix area have filed to unionize. The effort comes as clinicians have expressed concerns about patient...
The White House aggressively denied a report that implied President Trump may have received the investigational obesity medication retatrutide. STAT on Tuesday reported that Eli Lilly and the FDA granted one request f...
OMAHA, Nebraska -- The last eight American passengers who endured 42 days in a specialized hospital quarantine unit after exposure to an unusual hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that killed three people have left...
The FDA approved the first generic version of rifapentine (Priftin) to treat active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in adolescents and adults, as well as latent TB infection in patients as young as 2 years. The generic ri...
Pacemaker and implantable cardioverter‐defibrillator implants were associated with increased risks of mental disorders among young adult recipients in Korea. (Journal of the American Heart Association) The FDA is host...
Gene therapy developer uniQure said it will submit a marketing application for accelerated approval for investigational AMT-130 for Huntington's disease after the FDA reversed its position and agreed that a 3-year ana...
The Justice Department on Tuesday announced criminal charges against 455 people, including 90 doctors and other medical professionals, as part of a 2-week healthcare fraud crackdown that officials say involved more th...
Imagine three patient scenarios. In one, a physician receives a MyChart message from a cancer patient who can no longer access her medications or even make a follow up appointment because her "medical frailty exemptio...
At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting, results from the phase III persevERA BC trial did not show a statistically significant progression-free survival (PFS) benefit with the investigational oral...
Recent approvals of trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd; Enhertu) in early HER2-positive breast cancer have created new questions about its optimal use in the neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings. MedPage Today brought togethe...
Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land in rural Oklahoma once owned by his father and generations before him. Each quarter, for several years, he has made the 2½-hour drive to Oklahoma City for an epidural in...
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