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'This Situation Is Unusually Chaotic and Costly': What We Heard This Week
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115193.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- "Organizational changes are not unusual, but this situation is unusually chaotic and costly." -- Anne Schuchat, MD, former principal deputy director of the CDC, on the agency's mass layoffs and axed offices. "Without that...


The U.S. Organ Transplant System Is Undergoing Massive Change
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115197.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The need to revamp the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) is dire. Nearly 25% of livers and 33% of kidneys collected for donation go unused. The average transplant wait time is 3-5 years, but it can stretch...


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...


Who Said the Medical System Has 'Perverse Incentives' for Doctors?
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115195.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz


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...


It's Time for Meaningful Action on Medical AI
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115189.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- It is the policy of the United States to sustain and enhance America's global AI dominance in order to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security. -- Executive Order on "Removing Barriers to...


Video Shows Doctor With Measles Treating Kids. RFK Jr. Later Praised Him.
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115199.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- A Texas doctor who has been treating children in a measles outbreak was shown on video with a measles rash on his face in a clinic a week before HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met him and praised him as an "extraordinary...


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...


Encouraging Results After Discontinuation of Cancer Immunotherapy Due to Immune AEs
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115200.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Patients who discontinued cancer immunotherapy because of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) often had durable benefits despite not receiving the planned course of treatment, a retrospective study of patients with lung cancer...


Trump Turns COVID Info Website Into a Promotion Page for 'Lab Leak' Theory
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115198.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing, and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak. The covid.gov website shows...


Sexual Toxicity of Cancer Drugs; Guilt and Non-Beneficial Care; Effects of Cannabis
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115196.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Cancer drugs' sexual toxicity warrants a "call to action" among oncologists to address the problem. (Lancet Oncology) U.S. medical centers have appealed to the FDA for compassionate use approval of the adenosine receptor inhibitor...


FDA Approves New Option for Chronic Hives
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115194.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved dupilumab (Dupixent) for chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) in patients 12 years and older, the first new targeted drug for the inflammatory skin disease in over a decade, drugmakers Regeneron and Sanofi announced...


Appendectomy Reduced Relapse Rates in Ulcerative Colitis
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115192.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Appendectomy alongside standard medical therapy reduced relapse rates in patients with ulcerative colitis who were in remission compared with standard medical therapy alone, a randomized superiority trial showed. Among nearly...


Hydroxyurea Remains Effective Long-Term in Children With Sickle Cell Disease
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115191.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Hydroxyurea, a myelosuppressive agent that has been a standard treatment in sickle cell disease (SCD) for decades, remains effective over the long term in children with the disease, according to a single-center, real-world study...


Our Green-Energy Future Hangs in the Balance
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115188.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- At 39 years old, Danny Smith should have been enjoying the prime of his life. Instead, he was struggling to breathe after receiving the devastating diagnosis of progressive massive fibrosis, more commonly known as complicated...


Phototherapy Promising as Add-On to Oral Ritlecitinib for Vitiligo
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115187.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Adding narrowband ultraviolet B (UVB) phototherapy to oral treatment with ritlecitinib (Litfulo) enhanced repigmentation in patients with nonsegmental vitiligo compared with the drug alone, exploratory analysis of a phase IIb...


FDA Hiring Contractors to Replace Fired Staff Who Supported Safety Inspections
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115186.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- When HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced sweeping job cuts at his department last month, he said that safety inspectors who oversee U.S. foods and drugs wouldn't be impacted. Those employees remain at the FDA, but...


Leaked HHS Budget Draft Deletes Federal Spending for SHIP Counseling Programs
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115185.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The leaked "pre-decisional" HHS budget for fiscal year 2026 would eliminate some $55 million in discretionary funding for the State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIP), whose counselors help seniors navigate and understand...


Believers Say Microdosing Psychedelics Helps as Scientists Try to Measure the Claims
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115183.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Microdosing is gaining popularity with a new breed of health seekers. These self-experimenters take a very small amount of psilocybin mushrooms or lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to try to reduce anxiety, stress, and depression...


American Doc Told to 'Self-Deport'; FDA Ends Food Inspections; New Measles Outbreaks
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115181.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...