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Cervical Artery Dissection and Stroke; Preventing Clotting in Cancer Patients
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115296.jpg"/> (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 the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center...


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...


Gene Therapy Shows Long-Term Benefits in Pediatric Neuron Disease
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115272.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Severe motor impairment or death was significantly less common than typical among children with late-infantile or early-juvenile metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) after they received atidarsagene autotemcel (arsa-cel; Lenmeldy...


Young-Onset Dementia Risk Rises With Metabolic Syndrome
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115253.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The risk of young-onset dementia -- dementia before age 65 -- was higher in people with metabolic syndrome, a nationwide population-based study in Korea showed. Across nearly 2 million people with a mean age of 49, metabolic...


Early Risks for Alzheimer's; Parkinson's Stem Cell Trials; Digital Dementia Debunked
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115229.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- In the U.S., key risk factors for Alzheimer's disease were tied to cognitive function as early as ages 24 to 44. (Lancet Regional Health Americas) A phase I/II trial showed that transplanting dopaminergic progenitors derived...


Fact-Checking RFK Jr.'s Claims About Measles, Autism, and Diet
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115227.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- In just 2 months as the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made sweeping changes to HHS -- and its priorities. He's dismissed 10,000 public health workers, met with state governors who want to restrict unhealthy...


Autism Science Leader Reacts to RFK Jr.'s Misinformation
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115223.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- In this MedPage Today video, Alycia Halladay, PhD, chief science officer at the Autism Science Foundation, responds to inaccurate claims made by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his April 16 press conference about the...


Common Intervention Lowers Dementia Risk, Trial Shows
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115214.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Reducing hypertension dropped dementia risk by 15% in the open-label China Rural Hypertension Control phase III (CRHC-3) trial of nearly 34,000 people. At 48 months, all-cause dementia among people with high blood pressure was...


Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Strict BP Control Not to Blame for Pinprick Brain Lesions
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115210.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The acute intensive blood pressure (BP) lowering recommended after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) did not increase small-volume infarcts compared with looser control in a small randomized trial. Of 79 patients in the ICHADAPT...


Mad Cow-Like Disease Deaths in U.S.; Measles in 27 States; Cannabis Potency Soars
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115203.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...


As Dementia Rates Increase, Experts Warn Hospital Emergency Rooms Are Underprepared
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115166.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- AURORA, Ill. -- At her mother's home in Illinois, Tracy Balhan flips through photos of her dad, Bill Speer. In one picture, he's smiling in front of a bucket of sweating beers and wearing a blue T-shirt that reads, "Pops. The...


Hearing Loss and Heart Failure; Improved TAVR Outcomes
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115190.jpg"/> (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 the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center...


Hearing Loss May Play a Bigger Role in Dementia Than Previously Thought
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115179.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Hearing loss may play a bigger role in dementia than previously thought, data from a U.S. cohort study suggested. In a sample of nearly 3,000 older adults, up to 32% (95% CI 11.0%-46.5%) of incident dementia over 8 years could...


Is Trump Getting Guideline-Recommended Care for Cardiac Risk?
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115157.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- After findings from President Trump's annual physical exam were released last week, observers were struck by the persistent aspirin use recorded in the doctor's report. Trump, 78, has no apparent history of cardiovascular disease...


RFK Jr.'s Plans on Autism Include Studying Potential Environmental Risks
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115156.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an "alarming rate," promising on Wednesday to conduct exhaustive studies to identify any environmental factors...


Autism Rates Hit Record High, CDC Data Show
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115143.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- U.S. autism rates reached a record high, with about one in 31 children identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in 2022, new CDC data suggested. The prevalence of ASD among children 8 years old was higher in 2022 than...


Your Father's Alzheimer's; Autism Gut-Brain Axis; New Parkinson's Genes Uncovered
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115134.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Cognitively unimpaired people whose fathers had Alzheimer's disease had a stronger link between global amyloid-beta and tau deposition than those whose mothers had Alzheimer's, a cohort study suggested. (Neurology) New research...


Read the Results of Trump's 2025 Physical Exam
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115125.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- On April 11, 2025, President Donald J. Trump underwent his annual physical examination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. I performed and supervised the comprehensive exam, which included diagnostic and laboratory...


The Choice Between Chemotherapy and Targeted Therapy in Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115124.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- In this fourth and final installment of MedPage Today's virtual roundtable series on pediatric low-grade glioma, moderator Jason Fangusaro, MD, of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, is joined once again by Sabine...


Emergency Care for Cannabis Use Tied to Higher Dementia Risk
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115116.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- People who required emergency department (ED) or acute hospital care for cannabis use may have an increased risk of a subsequent dementia diagnosis, a retrospective matched cohort study of 6 million people in Canada suggested...


Another Push for Upfront Ezetimibe-Statin Combo Soon After MI
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115113.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Adding ezetimibe (Zetia) therapy to statins early after a heart attack improved outcomes, Swedish national records suggested. With statins almost universally used in this setting, people who also got upfront ezetimibe in the...