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(MedPage Today) -- Lower plasma iron and higher plasma selenium levels were each tied to a greater risk of dementia, data from National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center participants showed. (Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment &...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) may have heart benefits for some women with vasomotor symptoms, though effects vary by timing of initiation and race, a target trial emulation of observational data suggested. Among perimenopausal...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The FDA on Friday granted accelerated approval to camizestrant (Etcamah) for treating hormone receptor-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer at the first sign of ESR1 resistance mutations during first-line treatment. Camizestrant...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The emergence of the synthetic opioid cychlorphine (N-propionitrile chlorphine) in recent years has physicians and public health experts worried. The street drug has been linked to at least 55 deaths nationally from 2025 to...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Jason Arday resigned his Cambridge professorship on August 5, 2026, after weeks of headlines accusing him of plagiarizing his PhD thesis and embellishing his own life story. Nine days later he was found dead at 41. Just…
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The Lindsay Clancy murder trial, which was just declared a mistrial, has forced the public to confront extraordinarily difficult questions about postpartum mental illness, criminal responsibility, and psychiatric care. But one...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Once again, a beta-blocker failed to prove beneficial in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) without cardiovascular disease in a randomized trial. In BRONCHIOLE, people randomized to metoprolol plus standard...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Non-smokers with higher exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) levels had a lower risk of Parkinson's disease, a prospective study of more than 500,000 people in China showed. Among people who never smoked, exhaled CO levels of 3 ppm...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A nationwide outbreak of Cyclospora tied to contaminated lettuce has heightened safety concerns about imported food, while underscoring a longer-term trend: U.S. regulators are conducting fewer international inspections to catch...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Treatment advances in esophageal cancer have improved survival and other outcomes but have also raised new questions about how to optimize therapeutic potential. One frequent debate centers on the need for immediate surgery for...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Driven by changing social and behavioral practices, the epidemiology of gastroesophageal cancer in the U.S. underwent dramatic evolution in the 20th Century. In terms of absolute and relative numbers, the incidence of esophageal...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Three lots of American Regent epinephrine injection USP 30 mg/ 30 mL were recalled nationwide due to a lack of sterility assurance and the presence of particulate...
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