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Greatest Increases in Treatment, Survival Seen at 22 Weeks in Periviable Births
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115298.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Between 2014 and 2023, increases in active treatment and survival among infants born between 22 and 25 weeks' gestation were most pronounced at 22 weeks, according to a retrospective cohort study. Among 58,918 infants, active...


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...


'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...


Women Happier With Vaginal Tape Slings for Stress Urinary Incontinence
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115273.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Women with stress urinary incontinence reported more satisfaction with long-term outcomes when treated with a tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) procedure than bulking therapy with transurethral polyacrylamide hydrogel (PAHG) injection...


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...


HPV May Be Linked to Thyroid Eye Disease, Small Study Suggests
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115259.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- A small case-control study found potential molecular evidence that links human papillomavirus (HPV) to thyroid eye disease (TED). A homology analysis of 11 patients with TED and 11 controls pinpointed conserved motifs shared...


$5K Birth Reward in Talks; Zepbound Lawsuits; Varenicline for Vape Cessation
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115255.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...


No Extra Cancer Recurrence Risk Seen for RA Patients on Biologic Therapy
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115250.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients in Denmark with a history of solid tumor cancers, now in remission, faced no greater likelihood of cancer relapse when they were treated with biologic agents, compared with conventional disease...


Advanced Cancers Returned to Prepandemic Levels, According to a Reassuring Report
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115220.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Many Americans were forced to postpone cancer screenings -- colonoscopies, mammograms, and lung scans -- for several months in 2020 as COVID-19 overwhelmed doctors and hospitals. But that delay in screening isn't making...


Women Don't Want AI as Sole Reader of Breast Cancer Screenings
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115213.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Few women wanted artificial intelligence (AI) as the sole reader of their screening mammograms, according to a survey, though most respondents generally supported some use of the technology. Among more than 500 women who presented...


Ob/Gyns Mostly Stayed Put After SCOTUS Overturned Roe, Study Finds
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115212.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- In the post-Roe v. Wade era, ob/gyns continued to practice in similar locations as before, according to a descriptive cohort study. From the quarter right before the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision...


Trump's War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Deaths, and More
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115206.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. More children ages 1 to 4...


SCOTUS to Mull Whether Insurers Must Offer Certain Preventive Services for Free
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115201.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a case that could affect what kind of preventive care is covered at no charge under Americans' health insurance plans. The case, known as Kennedy v. Braidwood, involves Christian...


For Pregnant Women With Mechanical Valves, LMWH Tied to Worse Outcomes
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115177.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- However scant, the available data on pregnant women with prosthetic valves did suggest worse outcomes with mechanical prosthetics and low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH)-based anticoagulation. In a prospective global registry...


Clinicians Worry About Loss of a Critical CDC Contraceptive Guideline
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115176.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The team behind CDC's U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (MEC) was another casualty in the mass layoffs at HHS -- and clinicians worry what losing this critical guideline will mean for patient care. The...


Honing Indications for Endocrine Therapy in ER-Low Early Breast Cancer
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115154.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Omission of endocrine therapy in estrogen receptor (ER)-low early breast cancer had a significant association with worse survival, particularly in patients with residual disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), a large retrospective...


ACIP Considers Single-Dose HPV Vaccination
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115151.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- At its meeting on Tuesday, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) considered whether the U.S. should move to single-dose human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination instead of the currently recommended schedule...


More People Are Obtaining Abortions but Fewer Are Traveling to Other States
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115127.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Fewer people crossed state lines to obtain abortions in 2024 than a year earlier, a new survey has found. The Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, estimates in a report released Tuesday...


CT Scans in a Single Year Could Result in 100,000 Future Cancers in the U.S.
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115112.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- At current utilization and radiation dose levels, CT exams in 2023 were projected to lead to over 100,000 future cancers over the lifetime of exposed patients, according to an updated risk model. Among an estimated 62 million...