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House GOP Backs Off Some Medicaid Cuts as Report Says Millions Would Lose Healthcare

(MedPage Today) -- House Republicans appear to be backing off some, but not all, of the steep reductions to the Medicaid program as part of their big tax breaks bill, as they run into resistance from

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Afatinib Improved PFS in Lung Cancer With Uncommon Mutations

(MedPage Today) -- Patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer and uncommon EGFR mutations lived almost twice as long without disease progression with the targeted agent afatinib (Gilotrif) ver

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Oral Obicetrapib Takes Lipid Lowering to Another Level in Trials

(MedPage Today) -- Obicetrapib provided dramatic reductions in LDL cholesterol, without noticeable side effects, in a phase III trial of high-risk individuals already on maximal lipid-lowering therap

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STAT+: The state of antibiotic development: ‘Deplorable comes to mind’

Since launching four years ago with industry backing, the AMR Action Fund has closed on 10 investments for antibiotics and antifungals.

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Test Scores Never Defined My Competence as an Effective Clinician

(MedPage Today) -- In late April, the White House issued an executive order instructing accrediting bodies to rely only on "data on program-level student outcomes ...

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The Guardian view on bias in medical research: disregard for women’s health belongs in the past | Editorial

It is shocking that while illnesses specific to men are studied, those affecting women are ignoredSix years after Caroline Criado Perez’s bestselling book Invisible Women drew a mass readership’s

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Meds Without Therapy Declining; Conversion Therapy Effects; Trial Diversity Needed

(MedPage Today) -- Psychotherapy became more popular in outpatient mental health care in recent years, while psychotropic medication without psychotherapy became less common.

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It took five minutes of practice a day to make me a guitarist | Letter

Matthew Butte on how taking small steps to do something can be transformationalI loved Emily Bratt’s article (The one change that worked, I could never get fit – until I tried a 40-second plank ev

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Study Findings Do Not Support Omitting Surgery for Breast Cancer

(MedPage Today) -- Adding tumor-bed biopsy to trimodality imaging after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients who had clinical complete response did not reliably predict pathological complete response

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STAT+: Vinay Prasad is outraged, and now at the FDA. How will biotech deal?

Vinay Prasad, a skeptic of mainstream medicine, is now a top FDA official. Change is coming for some drugmakers, one way or the other.

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