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STAT+: From boom to bitcoin: A device maker’s surprising pivot amid a Medicare crackdown

Semler Scientific is now focused on bitcoin, after a series of escalating threats to its core artery-testing business.

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How can RFK Jr ‘Make America healthy again’? He is ignoring the two biggest killers of American children | Devi Sridhar

The US health secretary’s latest report is more interested in vaccine scepticism than the brutal toll inflicted by guns and road traffic accidents“Make America healthy again”.

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Meril launches MyClip, India’s first Transcatheter-Edge-to-Edge Repair (TEER) system for treatment of severe mitral regurgitation

The MyClip TEER System enables precise closure of the mitral valve flaps, effectively preventing the backwards flow of purified blood into the lungs

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New Zealand ad campaign to make country ‘best place in the world to have herpes’ wins top prize at Cannes Lions

Retro-style tourism video fronted by a former All Blacks coach won the Cannes Lions grand prix for good awardA public health advertisement that campaigned to make New Zealand “the best place in the

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Cassidy calls to delay meeting of CDC’s vaccine panel in challenge to RFK Jr.

A key GOP senator is calling for the CDC's vaccine meeting to be postponed after RFK Jr. shook up the panel.

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STAT+: Health insurers promise to reduce barriers to care under pressure from Trump administration

Under Trump administration pressure, health insurers promise to limit and speed up prior authorizations.

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Metabolic Syndrome and Psoriatic Arthritis: Common but Unwanted Bedfellows

(MedPage Today) -- Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients who also qualified for a diagnosis of metabolic syndrome were far more likely to meet criteria for a difficult-to-treat (D2T) form of their rheum

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CMS Tightens Reins on Obamacare Access

(MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration announced a plan to curb Affordable Care Act (ACA)-related spending by beefing up income verification for subsidies, tightening open enrollment periods, an

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Test Predicts Cognitive Decline in Parkinson's Disease

(MedPage Today) -- Kinetic measures of a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker test predicted cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease and distinguished it from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), an

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STAT+: GLP-1 drug helped type 1 diabetes patients keep healthy glucose levels and lose weight

A small study offered new data that supports an emerging push to use GLP-1 drugs to manage type 1 diabetes.

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