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Buprenorphine for OUD Tied to Better Outcomes for Mother and Baby
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115301.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Buprenorphine treatment was linked with better outcomes for mother and infant, according to a study of pregnant individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD). Among 14,463 maternal-infant dyads, there was a statistically significant...


Here's a Replacement for Prior Authorization
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115289.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- For many clinicians, it's the small victories -- saving a patient from a life-threatening injury, helping a patient obtain much-needed medical treatment for cancer -- that bring immense satisfaction and joy in medicine....


Kids Were More Likely to Stop Inhaled Steroids for Asthma After Flovent's Exit
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115295.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The market withdrawal of the brand-name asthma drug fluticasone propionate (Flovent) was linked to increased discontinuation of inhaled steroid therapy among children who had used the drug, a difference-in-differences analysis...


Healthcare Is America's Largest Escape Room
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115287.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- "All great changes are preceded by chaos." -- Deepak Chopra Escape rooms have become quite popular these days. This is a game where people are locked in a room and must work as a team to discover clues, solve puzzles, and...


Race-Neutral Spirometry Equations Catch Missed Lung Abnormalities in Black Adults
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115294.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Race-neutral equations for assessing lung function appeared to catch more true-abnormal findings for Black patients than did previously standard race-adjusted spirometry equations, a study showed. In a large single center cohort...


Luigi Mangione Enters Plea in CEO's Murder Case
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115286.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty Friday to a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as prosecutors formally declared their intent to seek the death penalty against him. Mangione, 26, stood...


Trump Order Targets Med School, Residency Accreditors Over 'Unlawful' DEI Standards
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115285.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- President Trump issued an executive order Wednesday that lambasted the nation's two medical school and graduate training accreditation organizations for their "unlawful discriminatory practices" that compel their institutions...


'Fertilization President' Trump Can Learn From State Efforts to Expand IVF Access
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115284.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- For nearly 3 agonizing years, Mariah Freschi and her husband have been trying to have a second baby. The California mother recently underwent surgery to remove her blocked fallopian tubes, leaving in vitro fertilization (IVF...


MedPod Today: DOJ's Med Journal Letters; Supreme Court Hears ACA Case; More HHS Cuts
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115282.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The following is a transcript of the podcast episode: Rachael Robertson: Hey everybody, welcome to MedPod Today, the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories...


Funding for Pivotal Women's Health Study Restored After Outcry
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115281.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- In a lightning quick reversal, the Trump administration has reportedly restored funding for the pivotal Women's Health Initiative (WHI). Yesterday evening -- hours after MedPage Today reported on HHS's decision to cut funding...


ACA's Preventive Services Mandate: What's at Stake?
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115280.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Since its enactment in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has afforded millions of people access to comprehensive and affordable health insurance -- improving their health and financial security. Despite this, the ACA has...


RFK Jr. Recounts Heroin Addiction, Urges Focus on Prevention and Community
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115279.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction, spiritual awakening, and recovery at a conference on drug addiction Thursday and emphasized that young people need a sense of purpose in their...


Popular Juice Recalled; Make Measles Endemic Again? HHS Denies Autism Registry
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115274.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. MedPage Today is collecting stories of HHS staffers across all agencies affected by Trump administration cuts. If you want to share your story, please email MPT_Editorial...


Whooping Cough Cases Are Rising Again in the U.S., Challenging Health Departments
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115271.jpg"/> (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. That's twice as many cases as this time last year...


New PD-1 Inhibitor Approved for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115270.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved the PD-1 inhibitor penpulimab, with two indications, for treating non-keratinizing nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) in adults. No trade name was indicated for the drug. The first indication -- for the first...


Remember That Simulation Training You Did? HHS Cuts Could Affect the Research for It
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115269.jpg"/> (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 -- in particular, the one that occurs between...


Would You Rather Get Care in the U.S. or Abroad?
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115266.jpg"/> (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 with other healthcare professionals in the U.K...


HHS Cuts Funding for NIH's Largest and Longest Study of Women's Health
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115265.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Editor's Note: After this story was published, HHS reversed its decision and announced that funding for the Women's Health Initiative would not be cut. With the stroke of a pen, the NIH's largest and longest study of women...


Trump Science Cuts Roil University Labs, Targeting AI Literacy Research and More
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115263.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Ashley Dayer's dream of winning a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to pursue discoveries in bird conservation started when she was an early-career professor with an infant in her arms and a shoestring laboratory budget...


Doc Charged for Child Sex Abuse Materials; Jury Awards $45M in Heart Patient Death
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115262.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Sven Knudsen Ljaamo, MD, a Veterans Affairs' physician in Massachusetts, was charged with possessing child sexual abuse material, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced. Walgreens will pay $300 million to resolve allegations...


NEJM Gets Letter From DOJ
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115256.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has received a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting information on alleged bias at the publication. The letter follows others -- sent to CHEST and at least...