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The FDA has approved the sunscreen chemical bemotrizinol, a UV light filter that has been available in Europe, Asia, and Australia for more than 20 years. Health advocates and skin care industry groups alike are hopeful it can restore faith in sunscreen.
Read full article →Parabilis Medicines is developing a new type of peptide drug capable of hitting elusive disease targets inside cells. Cancer is the biotech’s initial focus, and the IPO cash will support a lead program zolucatetide, which is in development for a rare type of tumor with limited treatment options. The post Parabilis Medicines’ Quest to Drug the Undruggable Picks Up $745M From Upsized IPO appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →The American Diabetes Association CEO apologizes to five members kicked out of annual convention for distributing protest literature, launches review of what went awry.
Read full article →In this edition of AI Prognosis: Quirky medical data tripping up sepsis algorithms, AI scribes for patients, and some AI biotech news.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) announced vaccine recommendations on Wednesday that differ from what the U.S. government advises. The immunization schedule is specifically for pregnant, postpartum...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Social media has been on trial for allegedly harming youth mental health, and tech companies have been facing uphill legal battles in recent months. In a landmark case in March, a California jury found Meta and Google liable...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A proposal to back universal newborn screening for congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) was fiercely debated among the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates on Tuesday. The proposal was ultimately referred for more...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Harvard University professor Robert Coles, MD, the psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who championed the cause of children grappling with poverty and segregation, died at age 97. (AP) High-intensity transcranial...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine must always be overseen by physicians, according to a policy adopted by the American Medical Association (AMA) on Tuesday. At its annual meeting on Tuesday, AMA's House of Delegates passed...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- I did not see the police officers muscle the five diabetes experts out of the convention center in New Orleans at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting because I was inside the meeting room where the opening session...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Concerned that unsupervised nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) provide patient care that is not as good or safe as that provided by physicians, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates voted...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The court officials overseeing the NFL's $1 billion settlement fund for concussion-related injuries have barred five law firms from handling any more claims from former players, after finding that they fraudulently steered clients...
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