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New Insights Into Older Hearts
Heart disease is more common in people over 65, but treatments are better than ever. That can complicate decision-making for older heart patients.
Read MoreNew Insights Into Older Hearts
Heart disease is more common in people over 65, but treatments are better than ever. That can complicate decision-making for older heart patients.
Read MoreJournalists Talk Southern Health Care: HIV Drug Access, Medicaid Expansion, Vaccination Rates
KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Read MoreWallowing in a soup of despair? Try ‘lemonading’ to buck the gloom
Linda Geddes spends a week with a clown, a comic and some toddlers to test the science behind the uplifting power of playIf foreign politics, environmental collapse and the impending takeover of the w
Read MoreSGLT1/2 Inhibitor Cut Stroke, Heart Attack Risk in Diabetic Kidney Disease
(MedPage Today) -- The dual SGLT1/2 inhibitor sotagliflozin (Inpefa) reduced the risk for myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke in high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), chronic kidney diseas
Read MoreTexas measles outbreak rises to 48 cases. It’s the state’s worst in nearly 30 years
The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state's worst in nearly 30 years.
Read MoreBird flu found in Arizona milk suggests another spillover from birds to cows
Another spillover of the H5N1 bird flu virus from wild birds to dairy cattle appears to have occurred, this time in Arizona.
Read MoreFDA OKs First Rapid-Acting Insulin Biosimilar for Diabetes
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved insulin-aspart-szjj (Merilog) as the first rapid-acting insulin biosimilar product to treat adults and children with diabetes, the agency announced Friday.
Read MoreMetastasis-Directed Therapy for Prostate Cancer a Clear Winner in Meta-Analysis
(MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO -- Progression-free survival (PFS) in oligometastatic prostate cancer improved significantly with metastasis-directed therapy (MDT) in addition to systemic treatmen
Read MoreEncouraging DOAC Data for Afib With Various Valvular Heart Diseases
(MedPage Today) -- For some patients with atrial fibrillation (Afib, AF) and valvular heart disease (VHD), direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) appeared to offer better prevention of stroke and thrombo
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