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Former President Biden diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer
Biden's health became a major focus before he gave up his campaign to be reelected.
Read More'The Next World War Will Be a Biowar': What We Heard This Week
(MedPage Today) -- "The next world war will be a biowar. It won't be a nuclear war; it won't be a chemical war; it will be a biowar.
Read MoreAdding CT, Symptoms Improves COPD Diagnosis
(MedPage Today) -- Incorporating chest CT imaging and respiratory symptoms into the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnostic schema improved identification of individuals with poor res
Read MoreThyroid Storm Bumps Death Rate in Thyrotoxicosis
(MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO -- Patients with thyrotoxicosis who developed thyroid storm died at nearly double the rate as those without thyroid storm, according to an analysis using National Inpatie
Read MoreFDA Approves Novavax COVID-19 Shot, but With Unusual Restrictions
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA has issued a long-awaited approval of Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine (Nuvaxovid), but with unusual restrictions.
Read MorePublix Recalls Baby Food Pouches Over Lead Contamination Concerns
The voluntary recall was prompted after routine testing. It is the second such recall recently of baby food over possible lead contamination.
Read MoreMethotrexate Proves Its Mettle as First-Line Therapy for Pulmonary Sarcoidosis
(MedPage Today) -- For initial treatment of symptomatic pulmonary sarcoidosis, methotrexate appeared to work as well as prednisone over 24 weeks, the randomized PREDMETH trial showed.
Read MoreOver 400 with heart valve condition dying each year on NHS waiting list, research finds
Exclusive: Survey shows 8% of people in UK with aortic stenosis die because they cannot get life-saving procedure quickly enough‘She was so fit, so well’: the heart patient who died before getting
Read More‘She was so fit, so well’: the heart patient who died before getting vital surgery
Sue Griffin’s severe aortic stenosis progressed quickly, resulting in her death while on NHS waiting list Sue Griffin was an active 68-year-old, retraining to become a nurse and indulging her love o
Read MoreA Half-Century of Vaccination Ups and Downs
(MedPage Today) -- I am well into my ninth decade and have been a health communications consultant for a half-century.
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