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<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115785.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Texas this year has been the center of the nation's largest measles outbreak in more than two decades, as a mostly eradicated disease has sickened more than 700 in the state, sent dozens to hospitals, and led to the death of...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115784.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- A 74-year-old pedophile and former surgeon who raped hundreds of victims over a period spanning more than two decades was given a maximum 20-year prison sentence on Friday by a French court.
Joël Le Scouarnec was found...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115782.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Using a lung and diaphragm protective ventilation strategy guided by a computerized decision support (CDS) tool during the acute phase of ventilation shortened the duration of weaning, a pediatric phase II trial showed.
The...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115776.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) had a higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease early in life, a nationwide population-based study in Sweden showed.
After controlling for birth year, age, and sex, the risk of...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115769.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Active treatment of hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in preterm infants within the first 2 weeks of life was associated with worse outcomes than expectant management, a meta-analysis suggested.
In the...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115770.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Retired doctor Larry Saltzman, MD, has blood cancer. He knows getting COVID-19 could be dangerous for him -- his underlying illness puts him at high risk of serious complications and death. To avoid getting sick, he stays away...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115768.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The U.S. saw a small increase in measles cases last week, an indicator that outbreaks are slowing down, though exposures at a busy airport in Colorado and a Shakira concert in New Jersey are keeping public health experts on their...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115766.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Self-reported maternal mental health declined in recent years, as did maternal physical health, though less drastically, a cross-sectional study suggested.
After adjustments for secular changes in sociodemographic groups, "excellent...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115762.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The CDC dropped its recommendation that healthy children and pregnant women get routine COVID-19 shots, health regulators announced.
In a video posted to X, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared alongside NIH Director...
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Harvard Medical School morgue's former manager, who allegedly stole and sold human remains, pled guilty to interstate transport of human remains, the Justice Department...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115738.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The U.S. social safety net would be jolted if the budget bill backed by President Trump and passed Thursday by the House of Representatives becomes law.
It would impose work requirements for low-income adults to receive Medicaid...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115717.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Frank DeStefano, MD, MPH, was there in the early days of the CDC's Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), which first came online in 1990, when the agency convinced four health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to contribute data to assess...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115707.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- During a hearing before the House Appropriations Committee last week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. stopped short of answering whether he would vaccinate his own child against chickenpox.
"Again, I don't want to give...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115659.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- MINNEAPOLIS -- Non-birthing partners were far less likely to have received prenatal vaccine counseling than their birthing partners, but those who were vaccinated were more likely to have received counseling, according to a...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115646.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- As-needed use of a metered-dose inhaler with albuterol plus budesonide (Airsupra) lowered the risk of severe exacerbations compared with albuterol alone for people with normally mild asthma, the phase III BATURA trial showed...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115650.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clinched the political support needed to become the nation's top health official by pledging to work within the decades-old federal system for approval and use of vaccines. Yet his regulators are promising...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115647.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Childhood cancer survivors had an increased risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and hypertension, a Canadian population-based matched cohort study suggested.
Over up to 27 years of observation, the cumulative incidence of CKD...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115641.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- MINNEAPOLIS -- Contraceptive counseling for adolescent mothers, particularly on long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), is critical for reducing the likelihood of recurrent pregnancies with a short interpregnancy interval...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115638.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The FDA has issued a long-awaited approval of Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine (Nuvaxovid), but with unusual restrictions.
Novavax makes the nation's only traditional protein-based coronavirus vaccine -- and until now it had emergency...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115626.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- I am well into my ninth decade and have been a health communications consultant for a half-century.
I am young enough to have been vaccinated against smallpox, diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus. I am old enough to have had...
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115618.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The research atmosphere over the last few months has been rife with fear and uncertainty due to countless grant pauses or cancellations under the current administration, including for the use of certain "buzzwords" that have...