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MHRA Approves First UK Treatment for Thyroid Eye Disease

, 2025-05-08 14:20:00 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved teprotumumab (Tepezza, Amgen) as the first treatment to be licensed in the UK for adults with moderate to severe thyroid eye disease. Thyroid eye disease, also known as Graves’ orbitopathy, affects up to 40% of individuals with this form of hyperthyroidism. Symptoms…

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Healthcare Marketing is Missing the Mark in Three Big Ways

Meg Dietzel , 2025-05-08 13:48:00 Innovative marketing practices are the goal of every marketer; however, sometimes, it’s essential to consider not what new marketing tactic will be influential but how you can leverage existing marketing practices to solve larger business challenges. Within the healthcare space, marketing can now be used for much more than increasing…

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Is this the real reason diets fail?

Mathuln Piraba , 2025-05-08 14:00:00 ‘Diets don’t work.’ You’ve probably heard this claim many times, and for most people, statistics say it’s true. The question is, why do diets fail? Is it because they are badly thought out? Or, are we just misunderstanding how to follow them? Food scientists at William and Mary University, VA,…

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FDA’s Vinay Prasad, Eli Lilly, autism study

Elaine Chen , 2025-05-08 13:35:00 Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning, we’ve got more news today about Vinay Prasad — let’s get into it. Vinay Prasad makes his debut at FDA One day after he was named the…

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Insulin resistance in youth may inform type 2 diabetes prevention

, 2025-05-08 13:24:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have identified a mechanism underlying insulin resistance in adolescents with obesity. The findings, published in Journal of Clinical Investigation, present a targetable pathway that could one day allow clinicians to intervene and prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes. The number of youths with obesity has skyrocketed…

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Salmonella Outbreak Under Investigation

, 2025-05-08 12:32:00 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating a Salmonella outbreak that had infected seven individuals across six states as of April 24, 2025.  According to the CDC website’s information on the investigation, the first case of Salmonella Mbandaka in the current outbreak was reported on February 9, 2025, and…

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what are peptides, long covid, CDC fellowships

Theresa Gaffney , 2025-05-08 11:59:00 Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning! We got some personnel news from the Trump administration yesterday: The White House withdrew the nomination of Janette Nesheiwat for U.S. surgeon general. The new name came shortly after: Casey…

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Eating ultra-processed foods may harm your health, research indicates

, 2025-05-08 10:26:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Consumption of ultra-processed foods, such as sugar-sweetened beverages, potato chips and packaged cookies, may be associated with adverse health outcomes, according to research being presented at the ACC Asia 2025 Together with SCS 36th Annual Scientific Meeting taking place May 9–11 in Singapore. This risk for hypertension, other…

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How to cut Medicaid costs without hurting care

Sanjay Basu , 2025-05-08 08:30:00 As a primary care physician serving Medicaid patients, I recently witnessed a preventable hospitalization that perfectly illustrates America’s health care dysfunction. My homebound patient with heart failure needed a routine lab test to adjust their medication. While commercially insured patients can access electronic lab orders, my patient’s Medicaid plan contracted…

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Study traces sharp regional shifts in ischemic heart disease burden—a global warning signal

, 2025-05-08 10:20:00 Credit: AI-generated image A new study puts the spotlight on the rising burden of ischemic heart disease across Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania, and calls for localized, equity-focused interventions in these regions. The researchers identified region-specific, modifiable risk factors that influence the increasing prevalence of ischemic heart disease, such as toxic…

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Next-generation “armored” CAR T cell therapy shows promising results in lymphoma patients

, 2025-05-08 05:29:00 A next-generation “armored” CAR T cell therapy showed promising results in a small study of patients whose B-cell lymphomas continued to resist multiple rounds of other cancer treatments, including commercially available CAR T cell therapies. The new therapy diminished cancer in 81 percent of patients and resulted in complete remission in 52…

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FAQs About Orthopedics Specialty

, 2025-05-08 09:18:00 Orthopedic specialists can be generally grouped into one of two categories: Surgical and nonsurgical. Within those categories, there are several subspecialties. Orthopedic surgeons may specialize in surgery of the hand, foot and ankle, shoulder and elbow, spine, or in other areas, such as hip and knee replacement. Their training includes a 5-year…

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Inside the peptide craze: Hype, science, and risk

Alex Hogan , 2025-05-08 08:30:00 A constellation of social media wellness influencers, YouTubers, and podcasters have been extolling the health benefits of peptides. There seems to be a peptide for just about anything you could dream of. Want to lose weight? There are GLP-1s, of course. Would you like to have a year-round tan? You…

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Frail Medicare Patients Face Primary Care Follow-Up Gaps

, 2025-05-08 08:09:00 TOPLINE: Vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries with frailty and those needing short-term skilled nursing facility care post-hospitalization were less likely to receive timely primary care follow-up after returning home. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study using claims data from Medicare beneficiaries, including 94,248,326 hospital discharges (80.1% aged ≥ 65 years; 55.1% women) between…

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One-week breast cancer radiotherapy proven as safe and effective as standard three-week treatment

, 2025-05-07 20:20:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Presented at ESTRO 2025 in Vienna, Austria, a 10-year study involving over 4,000 UK patients confirms that a one-week course of post-surgery radiotherapy is just as safe and effective as the traditional three-week regimen for early-stage breast cancer patients. These long-term results from the FAST-Forward trial could further…

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LSD for Anxiety and Depression: Worth the Trip?

, 2025-05-07 12:15:00 A year after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) opened the door to clinical use of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), US-based MindMed has launched phase 3 trials in the United States and Europe of MM120 (lysergide d-tartrate) for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD). The…

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Robotic surgery upskilling in Korea, India and more briefs

, 2025-05-08 04:13:00 Intuitive Surgical signs investment, workforce training in Korea, India Intuitive Surgical, a developer of robotic surgical systems based in the United States, has signed deals in South Korea and India to help upskill healthcare professionals.   Under its memorandum of understanding with the government of Seoul, capital city of South Korea, it will…

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A letter to my future physician self

Kayla R. Vaccaro , 2025-05-07 15:01:00 Dear future me (aka Dr. Probably Still Running on 4 Hours of Sleep, DO) … Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ” data-action=subscribe> Subscribe We…

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Marea, Novo, Inductive Bio, Met Gala

Elaine Chen , 2025-05-07 13:28:00 Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning. Biotech was not faring well yesterday, after we got the news that Vinay Prasad was chosen to be the next director of the FDA’s biologics center. We’ll get…

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New guidelines on the role of emerging therapies in managing adults with metastatic brain tumors

, 2025-05-07 20:30:00 Credit: Anna Shvets from Pexels The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) has updated its guidelines on using emerging therapies to treat metastatic brain tumors, reflecting improvements in pharmaceuticals, radiation therapy software and hardware, and surgical equipment. Jeffrey J. Olson, MD, of the Department of Neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine in…

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Study shows no connection between PM2.5 spikes and major cardiovascular events

, 2025-05-08 03:55:00 Despite concerns over air pollution spikes, this decades-long Danish study finds that repeated PM2.5 peaks are not linked to increased cardiovascular risk, highlighting the greater importance of chronic exposure. The role of long-term PM2.5 peaks in cardiovascular risk: an AIRCARD substudy. Image Credit: winnond / Shutterstock In a recent study published in the Journal of…

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Anticoagulation in Subclinical AF May Offer Little Benefit

, 2025-05-07 12:17:00 TOPLINE: In a modeling analysis, initiating direct acting or nonvitamin K oral anticoagulants (DOAC/NOAC) in patients with device-detected subclinical atrial fibrillation (AF) provided a net gain of approximately 1 additional quality-adjusted week of life per patient over 10 years, equating to a 65.8% chance of treatment offering more benefits than withholding it….

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Anticoagulation in Subclinical AF May Offer Little Benefit

, 2025-05-07 12:17:00 TOPLINE: In a modeling analysis, initiating direct acting or nonvitamin K oral anticoagulants (DOAC/NOAC) in patients with device-detected subclinical atrial fibrillation (AF) provided a net gain of approximately 1 additional quality-adjusted week of life per patient over 10 years, equating to a 65.8% chance of treatment offering more benefits than withholding it….

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Coreline Soft’s lung cancer screening AI added to Bayer’s Calantic platform

, 2025-05-08 04:17:00 An AI-powered lung cancer screening analysis software by South Korean company Coreline Soft has been added to the medical AI platform of global pharmaceutical firm Bayer.  Its flagship product, AVIEW LCS, is now among the selections of medical imaging AI software offered in Bayer’s vendor-neutral, cloud-based marketplace, Calantic, along with similar solutions from fellow Korean…

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How satisfaction with your partner’s looks directly boosts relationship quality

, 2025-05-08 03:27:00 Canadian researchers reveal how your view of your partner’s looks, and how you think they see you, can make or break relationship satisfaction. Mutual appreciation and reduced body criticism are key. Study: Satisfaction with partner’s appearance, body criticism, and relationship quality in heterosexual couples: A dyadic study. Image Credit: Prostock-studio / Shutterstock In a…

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Over 1000 GP Surgeries to Receive Modernisation Funding

, 2025-05-07 12:17:00 More than 1000 GP surgeries across England will receive government funding to upgrade outdated premises and boost patient access, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced. The £102 million investment for 2025-2026 will be delivered through the Primary Care Utilisation and Modernisation Fund. The fund was announced during the…

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How 4 Employers Are Supporting Workers Through Challenging Times

Marissa Plescia , 2025-05-08 00:24:00 Americans are facing difficult times, including rising healthcare costs and increasing prevalence of mental health challenges. And many are looking to their employer for support. That’s why during a Wednesday panel discussion at the Midwest Business Group on Health conference in Chicago, four employers shared the strategies they’ve implemented to…

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Vinay Prasad’s FDA speech: Praises staff, embraces evidence

Lizzy Lawrence , 2025-05-08 02:15:00 WASHINGTON — In his first address to FDA staff on Wednesday, Vinay Prasad emphasized his commitment to evidence, his admiration for agency employees, and his desire to serve the American public.  The new director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research sounded very different from his online firebrand persona….

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Researchers secure funding to advance Chagas disease research

, 2025-05-08 02:08:00 A team of researchers at Texas A&M University and the University of Georgia (UGA) has received more than $4 million from federal and non-governmental organizations to support research on Chagas disease prevalence, diagnostics and treatment to benefit both dogs and humans. Chagas disease is a tropical illness caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi,…

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Measles Is Back: A Wake-Up Call

, 2025-05-07 12:34:00 Many still believe that measles is a harmless disease and that vaccinations are more harmful, citing autism as a potential side effect, a claim debunked by numerous studies, including a notable 2015 cohort study in the United States. Vaccine expert Peter Jay Hotez, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Vaccine Development…

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