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Digital Intervention to Protect Cognitive Health; Afib Ablation and Quality of Life
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical... -
You Can Argue With a Machine, Doctor
(MedPage Today) -- In the "Star Trek: The Original Series" episode "The Deadly Years," Captain Kirk isn't defeated by an enemy ship. He's brought down, at least for a while, by medical findings. Radiation poisoning has accelerated his aging. He... -
A Vaccine Researcher Pleaded Guilty to What?
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Judge Declares Mistrial in Lindsay Clancy Case
(MedPage Today) -- A judge declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial on Friday after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict on whether she was criminally responsible for killing her three young children.
The mistrial... -
Blood Cancer's First New Drug in 29 Years; AI for Mammography? Phase III Myeloma Win
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved ropeginterferon alfa-2b (Besremi) injection to treat adults with essential thrombocythemia, the first new therapy for the chronic blood cancer since the 1997 approval of anagrelide.
A national survey showed... -
Docs Alarmed by NIH Plan to Redirect Medical Research $$ to Pentagon
(MedPage Today) -- Infectious disease specialists are sounding the alarm about a Trump administration plan to eliminate a clinical research unit at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Democrats in Congress say... -
AI System Faster but Not More Accurate Than Docs for Diagnosing Rheum Disease
(MedPage Today) -- Prof. Valmed, a large language model (LLM) cleared by European regulators for medical diagnosis, outperformed human physicians for diagnosing rheumatologic conditions in terms of speed but not accuracy, a randomized trial showed... -
Rare Brain Disorder Gets Its First FDA Drug Approval
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved zilganersen (Zanvastro) to treat Alexander disease in pediatric and adult patients, the agency announced Thursday.
The antisense oligonucleotide, the first approved treatment for Alexander disease, directly...