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Trump Rejects Proposal for Medicare to Cover Wegovy and Other Obesity Drugs

Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid.

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Embattled TAVR Device Myval Meets Expectations in Trial, but Trouble Still Ahead

(MedPage Today) -- For a balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR or TAVI) platform, the much-litigated Myval performed well enough in the COMPARE-TAVI 1 randomized trial, but

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Switch to Tirzepatide in T2D More Effective Than Upping Dulaglutide Dose

(MedPage Today) -- Diabetes patients on dulaglutide (Trulicity) had better glycemic control and more weight loss if they switched to tirzepatide (Mounjaro) rather than increasing the dose of the earl

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STAT+: Trump administration declines to expand Medicare coverage for obesity drugs

The Trump administration has chosen not to finalize a rule proposed by the Biden administration that would have allowed Medicare to cover blockbuster weight loss drugs.

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NIOSH Workers Wonder, 'Who Is Going to Carry on My Work?'

(MedPage Today) -- This week's cuts to HHS staffing have left employees at one agency division wondering what will become of all of their research.

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Medicare Spends Billions on Oncology Drugs Offering Little Added Benefit

(MedPage Today) -- In an analysis of Medicare's top-selling brand-name oncology drugs, researchers found that while the vast majority provided high added therapeutic benefit, 10 were classified as pr

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U.S. Has Twice as Many Measles Cases so Far This Year Than in All of 2024

(MedPage Today) -- The U.S. now has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024, with Texas reporting another large jump in cases and hospitalizations on Friday.

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Cerebrospinal Fluid Liquid Biopsy for Glioma Shows Clinical Management Potential

(MedPage Today) -- Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with glioma had a high concordance with tumor DNA and showed potentially useful prognostic potential, a small

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STAT+: FDA tells drugmakers to redo studies run by a contract research firm due to data integrity issues

Citing "objectionable conditions," the agency said there were problems with the way Raptim Research tested medicines in India.

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Amid Measles Outbreaks, Poison Centers See Uptick in Vit A Exposures in Kids

(MedPage Today) -- Poison control centers have received more reports of vitamin A exposures than usual -- a trend that lines up with the growing measles outbreaks in Texas and other states.

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