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Quietly Beating Cancer? Lost in Prior Authorization; FDA Generic Drug Office Lives

(MedPage Today) -- Are we winning the war on cancer and don't realize it? (Vox) A national survey showed that 85% of patients with cancer had to deal with insurers' prior authorization requirements f

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Zap the Skull to Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain?

(MedPage Today) -- BARCELONA -- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients saw significant reductions in pain with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) delivered at home, a sham-controlled trial

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People Are Swearing Off Cold Drinks to Prevent Afib

(MedPage Today) -- Avoiding ice water, smoothies, and ice cream seemed to work as a lifestyle change for some with atrial fibrillation (Afib or AF), according to the first cross-sectional survey of p

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NIH Workers Risk Retaliation by Openly Protesting Trump Policies

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Adding Menin Inhibitor Promising in Certain AML Patients

(MedPage Today) -- Adding the menin inhibitor revumenib (Revuforj) to azacitidine and venetoclax (Venclexta) seemed to benefit older adults with newly diagnosed NPM1-mutated or KMT2A-rearranged acute

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Trump Admin Providing Data on Immigrant Medicaid Enrollees to Deportation Officials

(MedPage Today) -- President Trump's administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data -- including the immigration status -- on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move th

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‘They entrusted me with their daughter’s memory’: Women’s prize winner Rachel Clarke on her story of a life-saving transplant

The Story of a Heart, which won this year’s award for nonfiction, tells how one child saved the life of another.

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Anti-Vaxxers on CDC Panel: A Broken Promise From RFK Jr.?

(MedPage Today) -- Despite promising on social media that new vaccine advisors would not be "ideological anti-vaxxers," some of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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STAT+: HHS tries pushing pharma to the negotiating table

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Resident doctors have good reason to strike over pay | Letters

Readers reflect on the hardships faced by younger medics and those training, and the degradation of an entire public serviceI write in response to the letter from senior clinicians urging resident doc

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