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Measles Outbreak Hits Town in Texas

As of Tuesday, 22 children and two adults had been infected, all of whom were unvaccinated, local officials said.

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Medicare removes sexual orientation, gender identity questions from enrollment forms

President Trump ordered federal agencies to scrub references to “gender ideology” across the government.

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Blood Test for Early Pancreatic Cancer Shows Promise

(MedPage Today) -- A blood test for early-stage pancreatic cancer performed well in preliminary studies involving samples from patients with known diagnostic status.

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Epidural Steroid Shots for Back Pain Have Limited Efficacy, Review Shows

(MedPage Today) -- Epidural steroid injections demonstrated limited efficacy in reducing back pain and disability, according to a systematic review from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).

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CDC, FDA Restore Some Webpages and Datasets Following Judge's Order

(MedPage Today) -- Federal health agencies have restored several webpages and datasets, following a judge's order to bring back public access to information that had been removed to comply with a pre

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STAT+: As Trump pauses enforcement of an anti-bribery law, will pharma engage in bad behavior?

The Trump administration's decision to pause enforcement of an anti-bribery law raised the specter that drugmakers could engage in bad behavior as a result.

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GOP, Dems on Two Different Tracks at House Health Hearing

(MedPage Today) -- Democrats and Republicans on the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee appeared to hold two different hearings Tuesday on improving healthcare -- or at least it might have s

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Behind Kennedy’s Vow to ‘Follow the Science’ on Vaccines

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited a disputed study from a close network of fellow vaccine skeptics during his confirmation hearings.

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Archives Host Missing CDC Data

(MedPage Today) -- After learning the hard way that government data may not always be available or reliable, the research community is finding alternative ways to host important government health dat

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Psilocybin Paper Corrected; Fewer Psychiatrists Billing Medicare; Cannabis and Death

(MedPage Today) -- A 2024 meta-analysis on psilocybin's effects on depression published in The BMJ was corrected earlier this week following methodological errors, but conclusions indicating a benefi

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