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(MedPage Today) — Hospitals that don’t contract with Medicare aren’t beholden to federal regulations that guarantee treatment for all-comers. One of those hospitals is Nutex Health in New Mexico. The...
(MedPage Today) — People with HIV and solid organ transplant recipients were significantly more likely to develop human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated anal, penile, vulvar, and cervical cancers, according to a Swedish...
(MedPage Today) — Head injuries among cheerleaders declined after a 2012 rule change that banned the “double down” twisting dismount in stunts performed in high school and lower-level grades, a...
(MedPage Today) — Higher vitamin A levels were linked to better lung function in adults and children, with the benefit seen with vitamin D among adults as well, a study...
(MedPage Today) — A patient in her 50s came to my eye clinic for flashes of light in one eye. Before she sat down, she told me, calmly, that she...
(MedPage Today) — Lung cancer screening criteria based on smoking duration appeared to be a better method of evaluating lung cancer risk than current guidelines that use pack-years and years...
(MedPage Today) — A large population-based cohort study in Hong Kong demonstrated that acetaminophen (Tylenol) use during pregnancy was unlikely to increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder or attention...
(MedPage Today) — When U.S. health officials meet next month to reconsider a list of controversial peptide drugs, they will hear from a new set of voices: doctors and pharmacists...
(MedPage Today) — The FDA expanded the indications for risankizumab (Skyrizi) in plaque psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis to include treatment of children 6 years and older, AbbVie announced. An interleukin...
(MedPage Today) — Treatment with a once-daily FGFR1-3 tyrosine kinase inhibitor led to significant increases in growth among children with achondroplasia, the phase III PROPEL 3 study showed. The least-squares...
