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Voters in Red and Blue States Repudiate Lenient Drug Policies

Californians voted for tougher penalties for dealers. Florida, North Dakota and South Dakota rejected proposals to legalize marijuana.

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New CAR T-Cell Therapy Approved for Leukemia

(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved obecabtagene autoleucel (obe-cel; Aucatzyl) for treating relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in adults, the agency announced

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MedPAC Tackles Accuracy of Medicare Advantage Network Directories

(MedPage Today) -- Inaccuracies in Medicare Advantage (MA) directories listing in-network providers -- often criticized as being too "narrow" -- and flaws in rules governing them need to be addre

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Trump Likely to Undo Several of Biden's Executive Orders on Health

(MedPage Today) -- Passing laws to overturn Democrats' healthcare initiatives might take a while, but there are plenty of Biden administration health policies that the Trump administration may undo i

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FDA Adds New Warning to GLP-1 Drugs

(MedPage Today) -- Labels of all GLP-1 receptor agonists now carry a warning about pulmonary aspiration during general anesthesia or deep sedation.

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FDA Panel Backs Cryoablation in Early Breast Cancer as Alternative to Surgery

(MedPage Today) -- An FDA panel on Thursday endorsed a cryoablation system as an alternative to surgery for some early breast cancer patients.

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Clinicians who provide trans health care brace for the Trump era

Trump has pledged to stop federal funding of gender-affirming care and to expel from Medicare and Medicaid any hospitals that provide it to minors

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Promising OS at 5 Years With Chemo-Free Combo in Urothelial Cancer

(MedPage Today) -- Combination therapy with enfortumab vedotin (Padcev) and pembrolizumab (Keytruda) was associated with durable responses and meaningful survival in cisplatin-ineligible patients wit

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RFK Jr. is crowdsourcing reams of nominees for Trump’s health administration

Peter McCullough, Casey Means, Joel Salatin, and Simone Gold are all getting upvotes on a MAHA nomination site for the Trump administration.

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Midlife Choices May Offset Genetic Risk for Dementia, Stroke, Late-Life Depression

(MedPage Today) -- Healthier lifestyle behaviors in midlife were linked with better outcomes in people with genetic predisposition for age-related brain diseases, longitudinal data from the U.K.

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