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Journalists 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.

Wallowing 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

SGLT1/2 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

Texas 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.

Bird 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.

FDA 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.

Metastasis-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

Encouraging 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

Second Drug for Benign Synovial Tumor Condition Wins FDA Approval

(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved the small-molecule inhibitor vimseltinib (Romvimza) for adults with symptomatic tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT), a rare, non-malignant, but debilitating, cond

Meet the Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5 Seconds

This month, Vishvaa Rajakumar won the Memory League World Championship, which tests memorization skills. He shared some of his techniques with The Times.

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