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Rural health study is told it’s losing federal funds, and other major heart studies are worried
A federal health study that was examining the high burden of chronic disease in rural areas learned its funding has been cut off.
Read MoreRace-Neutral Spirometry Equations Catch Missed Lung Abnormalities in Black Adults
(MedPage Today) -- Race-neutral equations for assessing lung function appeared to catch more true-abnormal findings for Black patients than did previously standard race-adjusted spirometry equations,
Read MoreSTAT+: Sutter Health will pay nearly $230 million to settle class-action antitrust case
Sutter Health has agreed to pay about $230 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit accusing it of anticompetitive behavior
Read MoreDavid Paton, Creator of Flying Eye Hospital, Dies at 94
An idealistic ophthalmologist, he came up with an ingenious way to treat blindness in far-flung places: by outfitting an airplane with an operating room.
Read MorePulsed Field Ablation's Safety Challenged by Evidence of Collateral Damage
(MedPage Today) -- The newer, supposedly safer atrial fibrillation (Afib) ablation systems had safety issues of their own, researchers reported based on multicenter registry data.
Read MoreModified FLOT Beats FOLFOX for Advanced Gastric Cancer
(MedPage Today) -- A modified FLOT regimen (fluorouracil, oxaliplatin, and docetaxel; TFOX) outperformed a standard chemotherapy triplet for the first-line treatment of advanced HER2-negative gastric
Read MoreSTAT+: NIH announces six new acting institute directors, many of them filling posts of ousted predecessors
The NIH announced six acting directors to run institutes, many to fill vacancies created by the ouster of predecessors
Read MoreAlternative to Anti-VEGF Shows Safety, Efficacy in Diabetic Macular Edema
(MedPage Today) -- A single intravitreal injection of UBX1325 (foselutoclax), a novel senolytic small molecule inhibitor, had a tolerable safety profile and "trends suggestive of potential efficacy"
Read MoreLuigi Mangione pleads not guilty to federal murder charge in killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty Friday to a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as prosecutors formally declared their intent to seek the death penalty agai
Read MoreMontana Hospitals Preserve Medicaid Expansion, Fend Off Regulations
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