Medicare Is Now Covering Some GLP-1s for Weight-Loss for $50....
(MedPage Today) — Popular — and expensive — GLP-1 agonists for weight loss just got a lot cheaper for many older Americans. Starting this week, the federal government is offering...
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CDC Urges People to Prevent Mosquito Bites as West Nile...
(MedPage Today) — Health officials are encouraging people to use bug spray and mosquito-control efforts as West Nile virus season is off to its earliest and worst start in over...
No One Teaches You How to Zip the Body Bag
(MedPage Today) — I don’t remember every detail about the first patient I watched die, but I remember his weight. It was shouted repeatedly across the room to the pharmacist...
Serious Potato Chip Recall; Taylor Swift $$ for Hospitals; Hantavirus...
(MedPage Today) — Note that some links may require registration or subscription. The FDA classified the recall of Zapp’s- and Dirty-branded potato chips as most serious due to a potential...
Do Same-Day COVID and Flu Shots Bring More Side Effects?
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Researchers Launch Study on Ebola Treatments as Congo Outbreak Worsens
(MedPage Today) — Researchers began a highly anticipated study of two possible Ebola treatments on Thursday in hopes of fighting the still-growing outbreak in eastern Congo, as the World Health...
Real-World Study Supports Bispecific Antibodies in Follicular Lymphoma
(MedPage Today) — Real-world data presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting reinforced the effectiveness and safety of bispecific antibodies for patients with relapsed or refractory...
Off-Label Drug Proves Its Mettle in Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis
(MedPage Today) — Off-label rituximab was noninferior to ocrelizumab (Ocrevus) in people with newly diagnosed relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) and recent disease activity, the phase III OVERLORD-MS trial showed. At...
Amnioinfusions Mitigate Lethal Lung Hypoplasia From Fetal Kidney Failure
(MedPage Today) — Over a third of infants born following pregnancies with anhydramnios due to fetal kidney failure were able to avoid death from underdeveloped lungs with serial amnioinfusions during...
Older Folks With Obesity Now Often Metabolically Similar to Those...
(MedPage Today) — For middle-age and older people, obesity was no longer associated with the same cardiovascular burden as before — though it was a different story for young adults,...
