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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.

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This 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

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Gene 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

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Whooping 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.

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New 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.

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Remember 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

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STAT+: 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.

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STAT+: 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.

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RFK 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.

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Would 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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