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STAT+: Women’s Health Initiative to receive NIH funding after all
A spokesperson said Thursday that "NIH initially exceeded its internal targets for contract reductions" in explaining the reversal days after cuts had been announced.
Read MoreThis Common, Safe Drug Relieved Osteoarthritis Pain in Randomized Trial
(MedPage Today) -- The diabetes drug metformin provided overweight/obese patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee with significantly greater pain relief than did placebo in a small randomized tr
Read MoreGene Therapy Shows Long-Term Benefits in Pediatric Neuron Disease
(MedPage Today) -- Severe motor impairment or death was significantly less common than typical among children with late-infantile or early-juvenile metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) after they recei
Read MoreWhooping Cough Cases Are Rising Again in the U.S., Challenging Health Departments
(MedPage Today) -- Whooping cough cases are rising, and doctors are bracing for yet another tough year. There have been 8,485 cases reported in 2025, according to preliminary data from the CDC.
Read MoreNew PD-1 Inhibitor Approved for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved the PD-1 inhibitor penpulimab, with two indications, for treating non-keratinizing nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) in adults.
Read MoreRemember That Simulation Training You Did? HHS Cuts Could Affect the Research for It
(MedPage Today) -- How do you train hospital staff to do a "warm" handoff from one team to another? What's the best way to make sure nothing gets missed in the communication? Improving that handoff
Read MoreSTAT+: Caribou delays readout, discontinues programs, betting on off-the-shelf CAR-T therapies
The company is hoping longer follow-up will deliver enough positive trial data on its CRISPR T-cell therapies for blood cancer.
Read MoreSTAT+: No new autism registry, HHS says walking back NIH director’s claim
The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.
Read MoreRFK Jr. faces mixed reception, unruly crowd at major addiction conference
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at a large meeting of addiction experts, encountering both cheers and repeated protests.
Read MoreWould You Rather Get Care in the U.S. or Abroad?
(MedPage Today) -- We both recently interacted with the healthcare system in other developed regions -- one of us (Friedman) as a patient in Hong Kong and the other (Brown) through conversations wi
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