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(MedPage Today) -- Two more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside the main cluster in Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pest that could potentially devastate the nation's cattle industry, the...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- For U.S. kids born after the rotavirus vaccine was introduced, recommendations against administration in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) appeared to be a strong barrier to getting immunized, researchers reported. Children...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Primitive or regressive reflexes -- known as frontal release signs -- later in life were associated with increased dementia risk, a longitudinal study of cognitively normal older adults showed. In adults with intact cognition...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Patients taking GLP-1 receptor agonists for obesity had a 41% lower risk of obesity-related cancers as compared with patients treated with diet or exercise, a large propensity-matched cohort study showed. After 2 years of follow...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- A fixed-dose combination of novel amylin analog cagrilintide and semaglutide, given once weekly, lowered blood glucose and weight in various populations with type 2 diabetes. The combination injectable, dubbed...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- In the wake of clinicians and researchers being kicked out of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting here, at least two of the organization's leaders have resigned. President-Elect Jennifer Green, MD...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination during pregnancy was effective at preventing infants from being hospitalized with RSV-associated acute respiratory illness (ARI) in a real-world setting, according to a retrospective...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- While ingestion of foreign bodies is far more common in children, adults have their share of incidents. Take this case of a 40-year-old man who, after questioning by clinicians, revealed what he'd swallowed while drinking with...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A ProPublica investigation published last month documented something troubling: parents across the country are declining a simple vitamin K shot for their newborns, and some of those babies are dying of preventable hemorrhages...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- Injections of an ultra-long-acting investigational GLP-1 agonist led to significant weight loss in people with overweight or obesity, with reductions continuing after a switch to once-monthly dosing, according...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Richard Lokudu, MD, the medical director of Mongbwalu General Referral Hospital, has received barely any compensation for his work on the front line of one of Congo's deadliest Ebola virus outbreaks. Lokudu and several of his...
Read full article →City leaders said the regulation risks undermining the Affordable Care Act exchanges and adding new costs for local governments. Now, they’re suing to overturn the rule.
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