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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...


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...


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...


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...


Study Questions New Proposal to Redefine Obesity
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115178.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Virtually all individuals identified as having obesity based on body mass index (BMI) also had confirmed excess adiposity, according to an analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data. Among the...


Doc Accused of 15 Murders; Actress's Cause of Death; Harvard Cuts Will 'Cost Lives'
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115159.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...


ACIP Endorses RSV Vaccine for At-Risk Adults 50 and Up
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115158.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 14-0, with one abstention, on Wednesday to recommend that high-risk patients ages 50 to 59 be vaccinated for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and also added...


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...


U.S. Measles Cases Likely Underreported, CDC Says
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115155.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The number of cases reported in the ongoing measles outbreak in the southwestern U.S. is likely an undercount, according to the CDC scientist leading the response to the outbreak. "We do believe there's quite a large amount...


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...


CDC Advisors Weigh Switch to Risk-Based COVID Vaccination
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115147.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The CDC's vaccine advisors are considering options that would narrow the recommendations for the fall COVID vaccine to only include groups at higher risk for severe illness. The news came at a Tuesday meeting of the Advisory...


Diabetes, Heart Disease Drugs Recalled; New Trump Order; Maple Syrup's Health Claims
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115144.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...


Best Time of Day for Asthma Inhaler?
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115122.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- For mild to moderate asthma, mid-afternoon dosing of inhaled beclomethasone suppressed nocturnal lung function worsening compared with other dosing strategies, a small open-label trial showed. A single 400-&#956;g dose at 3...


Former USPSTF Members Ask HHS for Protection
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115140.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Dozens of former chairs, members, and scientific directors of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) urged HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to protect its ability to improve people's health through primary care services...


The Power of Film to Change Medical Culture
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115130.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- A Q&A with a physician-filmmaker about her latest documentary


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...


Vaccine Advisors to Meet; Donated Organs Left Unused; Counterfeit Ozempic Warning
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115123.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...


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...


Flawed Flu Vaccine Study Sparks Misinformation Storm
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115110.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- In a video originally published on Inside Medicine, MedPage Today editor-in-chief Jeremy Faust takes aim at a widely circulated Cleveland Clinic preprint on flu vaccine effectiveness -- one that was touted on Fox News as proof...


Sharing in Shared Medical Decision-Making
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115107.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Just about 2 weeks ago, I had a new patient on my schedule, mixed in with the rest of my morning's packed schedule of patients. Most of the patients in my panel I've been taking care of for many years, some as long as two or...