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(MedPage Today) -- Not many allergists are mourning the exit of the first and only FDA-approved oral immunotherapy (OIT) product -- peanut allergy treatment Palforzia -- from the market. The standardized peanut protein product had been approved...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- An expectant mother learned her fetus had an extremely rare and life-threatening congenital anomaly, but a carefully executed procedure helped ensure a good outcome. After a local clinic identified a tumor around the face of...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Even with effective vaccines available, most U.S. adults don't have immunity to either the hepatitis A or B virus (HAV, HBV), according to a cross-sectional analysis, and recent federal vaccine recommendations could push immunity...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- During the acute phase of the COVID pandemic, Nextstrain became known as a key platform for tracking the evolution of SARS-CoV-2. It took viral genome sequences uploaded to global repositories like GISAID and GenBank and turned...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Charlotte Touzalin was still a young teenager when she began struggling with weight gain, abnormal periods, and unwanted facial hair -- the same puzzling symptoms that plagued her mom for decades and that no doctor could piece...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Extending the shelf life of platelets with refrigeration didn't hurt their hemostatic function for people undergoing complex cardiac surgery, the landmark CHIPS trial found. Platelets stored at 1-6°C (33.8-42.8°F...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Pitcher Tommy John, who won 288 games during his 26-year MLB career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that...
Read full article →Chris Neczypor, the finance chief at Lincoln Financial, will succeed Drew Asher on Jan. 1. Asher plans to retire at the end of 2027.
Read full article →UnitedHealth misled investors, shuttered an internal Medicare billing audit and ignored cybersecurity lapses that led to the historic Change Healthcare cyberattack, according to a lawsuit filed by two shareholder groups.
Read full article →Bringing Talkspace on board should expand behavioral health services for UHS’ existing patients, while ushering more consumers through the health system’s doors, UHS CEO Marc Miller said.
Read full article →Why leading Medicare Advantage plans are rethinking care transitions.
Read full article →An outside party gained access to some company systems, but the medical device maker found no evidence that sensitive or protected data was obtained and said its operations are running normally.
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