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Alzheimer's Researcher Placed on Leave; War on Drug Recovery; Lax Coroner Oversight

(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week.

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STAT+: Incoming Senate Majority Leader Thune hails from a state that relies on rural hospitals, telehealth

The South Dakota Republican has a track record on telehealth, supporting rural hospitals, accountability for pharmacy benefit managers.

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Legalisation of assisted dying may force NHS cuts, Wes Streeting warns

Minister has asked officials at Department of Health to analyse implications for other servicesCivil servants are looking at the extra costs that assisted dying would impose on the NHS amid a warning

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Electronic Symptom Screening in Kids With Cancer Boosts Quality of Care

(MedPage Today) -- Symptom screening improved symptom scores among children with cancer compared with usual care, two randomized trials showed.

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Does your jaw click? Do you grind your teeth? It could be this little-known condition

About 10-15% of adults have temporomandibular disorder, a condition connected with TMJ โ€“ hereโ€™s what to knowIt seems like all of my friends are having jaw pain.

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Trump's Age: Is It a Risk?

(MedPage Today) -- When president-elect Donald Trump is sworn in for a second term he will become the oldest president ever inaugurated -- raising questions as to whether the 78-year-old is at risk

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Targeted Magnetic Stimulation Slows Alzheimer's Progression in Phase II Study

(MedPage Today) -- A personalized transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) protocol, designed to stimulate the precuneus within the default mode network, was well tolerated and significantly slowed cl

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STI Epidemic Slows as New Syphilis and Gonorrhea Cases Fall in the U.S.

(MedPage Today) -- The U.S. syphilis epidemic slowed dramatically last year, gonorrhea cases fell, and chlamydia cases remained below prepandemic levels, according to federal data released Tuesday.

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Tribal Leaders Ask Feds To Declare Syphilis Outbreak a Public Health Emergency

For Native American communities in the Great Plains, data paints a clear picture of the devastation caused by an ongoing syphilis outbreak.

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Wes Streeting, you must have a better plan for ailing hospitals than public humiliation | Rachel Clarke

The plan to introduce league tables is a simplistic, retrograde gimmick that will demoralise NHS staff โ€“ and sideline their incredible workRachel Clarke is a palliative care doctorSeriously, Wes Str

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