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WeightWatchers scraps business model to team up with anti-obesity drugs provider

Brand shifts away from dieting towards weight-loss injections after filing for bankruptcy in the USWeightWatchers is teaming up with a provider of weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro, in a s

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Abbott launches TactiFlex Sensor Enabled ablation catheter for atrial fibrillation treatment

New catheter offers flexible tip and contact force technology to improve cardiac ablation procedures for AFib patients

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The extraordinary promise of gene editing – podcast

Doctors in the US have become the first to treat a baby with a customised gene-editing therapy after diagnosing the child with a severe genetic disorder that kills about half of those affected in earl

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Extra cancer scans for women with dense breasts could save 700 lives a year – UK study

Adding scans to existing screening could catch harder-to-detect early-stage cases of disease, research showsHundreds of lives could be saved every year with extra cancer checks for women with very den

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Supplementary Contrast Imaging Techniques for Dense Breasts Better Than Ultrasound

(MedPage Today) -- Supplementary breast cancer imaging with abbreviated MRI and contrast-enhanced mammography detected more cancers than automated whole-breast ultrasound (ABUS) in women with normal

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STAT+: Trump, building on Biden policy, to speed up audits of Medicare Advantage insurers

CMS will hire nearly 2,000 coders to conduct audits to confirm diagnoses used for payment are backed by medical records.

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Link Between Viral Infection and Alzheimer's Emerges in New Data

(MedPage Today) -- People diagnosed with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), the virus responsible for cold sores, were more likely to have a subsequent Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, an analysis of

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Judge Vacates Federal Rules Requiring Employers to Provide Abortion Accommodations

(MedPage Today) -- A federal judge on Wednesday struck down regulations requiring most U.S. employers to provide workers with time off and other accommodations for abortions. The ruling by U.S.

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Intravascular Lithotripsy Ekes Out a First Trial Win for PCI on Calcified Lesions

(MedPage Today) -- Balloon lithotripsy better prepared severely calcified lesions for stenting compared with conventional techniques, based on results of intravascular imaging in the small, 200-perso

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LGBTQ+ researchers sue HHS, NIH over grant cuts

The suit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, charges that cutting $800 million in medical research endangers lives.

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