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Amid Measles Outbreak, Texas Is Poised to Make Vaccine Exemptions for Kids Easier
<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...


French Court Sentences Former Surgeon to 20 Years for Raping 299 Children
<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. Jo&#235;l Le Scouarnec was found...


Lung, Diaphragm Protective Ventilation Strategy Cuts Kids' Wean Time
<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...


Autism Tied to Early-Onset Parkinson's Disease
<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...


Preterm Infants Treated Early for Patent Ductus Arteriosus Had Worse Outcomes
<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...


Trump's Team Cited Safety in Limiting COVID Vaccines. Some See More Risk.
<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...


Measles Case Count Climbs Slightly to 1,046 Cases, While Indiana's Outbreak Ends
<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...


Self-Reported Maternal Mental Health Declined in Recent Years
<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...


RFK Jr. Ends CDC Recommendation for COVID Vaccine in Healthy Kids, Pregnant Women
<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...


Med School Morgue Staff Pleads Guilty; Baby Food Recall; Sperm Donor Carried Cancer
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115759.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. 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...


Trump's Budget Bill Includes Medicaid Work Requirement, Limits Transgender Care
<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...


'There's No Conspiracy': An Inside Look at CDC's Key Vaccine Safety Database
<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...


These European Countries Give the Chickenpox Vaccine
<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...


New Dads, Non-Birthing Partners Less Likely to Get Prenatal Counseling on Vaccines
<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...


Combo Inhaler Better for Mild Asthma
<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...


RFK Jr. Pledged Not to Upend U.S. Vaccine System, but Big Changes Are Underway
<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...


Childhood Cancer Survivors at Increased Risk of CKD, Hypertension
<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...


LARC Counseling Vital for Adolescent Mothers at Risk for a Short-Interval Pregnancy
<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...


FDA Approves Novavax COVID-19 Shot, but With Unusual Restrictions
<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...


A Half-Century of Vaccination Ups and Downs
<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...


What's Lost if We 'Play the Game' to Get Research Funding?
<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...