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Sensitive details of Australian IVF patients posted to dark web after Genea data breach

Genea CEO told patients information accessed includes contact details, Medicare card numbers, medical histories, test results and medicationsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet o

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Almost twice as many boys as girls cycle in UK, Sustrans report finds

Charity sounds alarm over gender gap – but finds children enthusiastic about measures to make cycling easier Almost twice as many boys as girls routinely cycle in the UK, a pioneering report on you

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UK ‘falling short’ in fight against rise of superbugs resistant to antibiotics

Antimicrobial resistance contributing to estimated 35,000 deaths a year in UK, and government ‘a long way’ from containing the problem, says NAOSuperbugs are on the rise in the UK and the governme

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STAT+: Budget bill passes in House, but clashes over spending and Medicaid cuts still loom 

The House budget bill that passed does not include specific policies, and targeted spending cuts are too big to achieve without cutting Medicaid.

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F.D.A. Expands Access to Clozapine, a Key Treatment for Schizophrenia

Federal regulators will no longer require patients to provide blood tests before receiving the drug from pharmacies.

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STAT+: Trump signs order doubling down on making health care prices clearer

President Trump on Tuesday reaffirmed a priority from his first term: making health care prices public. But hospitals have long loathed price transparency rules.

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Finerenone and Outpatient Worsening Heart Failure With Mildly Reduced or Preserved Ejection Fraction

This secondary analysis of the Finerenone Trial to Investigate Efficacy and Safety Superior to Placebo in Patients With Heart Failure (FINEARTS-HF) randomized clinical trial evaluates the effect of fi

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STAT+: A bill is re-introduced in Congress to erase distinctions between small and large molecule drugs in the IRA

The bill would allow Medicare to begin negotiating with pharmaceutical companies over prices for small molecule medicines 13 years after they reach the market, just as with biologics.

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Tiny Ocean Plastics Tied to Big Brain Problems

(MedPage Today) -- Marine microplastic levels in ocean water were associated with cognitive and other disabilities among people living in adjacent coastal counties, cross-sectional data showed.

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Aspirin for Sepsis Flops in Trial

(MedPage Today) -- ORLANDO -- Aspirin failed to cut the intensity of organ dysfunction in patients with sepsis, a placebo-controlled phase II trial from Brazil showed.

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