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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...


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...


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...


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...


Surgery for Acute Cholecystitis in Older Adults Tied to Reduced Readmissions
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115149.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Operative treatment of acute cholecystitis in older adults with multiple comorbidities was associated with lower rates of readmissions and emergency department (ED) revisits compared with nonoperative treatment, according to...


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...


Study Pinpoints Barriers to Kids Receiving Living-Donor Kidney Transplants
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115118.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- BOSTON -- Several factors may decrease a child's chances of receiving a living-donor kidney transplant, a mixed-methods study found. In a review of 93 pediatric kidney transplants, the following patient characteristics were...


Doctors Remove Pig Kidney From Alabama Woman After a Record 130 Days
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115088.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday -- a disappointment in the ongoing quest for animal...


Renal Outcomes Seem to Differ by Gender After Living Kidney Donation
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115095.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- BOSTON -- After living kidney donation, projection of renal function may vary by gender, a retrospective cohort study of 174,311 living kidney donors suggested. Over a median 6.7 months, the incidence rate of worsening post...


Soaring Temps Spell Trouble for Kidney Transplant Recipients
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115080.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- BOSTON -- Exposure to high temperatures may be renally taxing for kidney transplant recipients, a researcher reported here. Among nearly 64,000 recipients from 250 transplant centers around the U.S., every additional year...


Standard Antibiotic Ordering Improves With Electronic Prompts in More Settings
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115079.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Computerized prompts recommending standard-spectrum empiric antibiotics for low-risk patients in the hospital with either skin and soft tissue or abdominal infection reduced use of extended-spectrum antibiotics without escalating...


LuX-Valve Shows Promise, a Nod to Growing Diversity of TTVR Devices
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115067.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- The global flurry of innovation in tricuspid valve interventions continues in the wake of Evoque's release, as illustrated by the 1-year report for a Chinese-made device that has already progressed to a second-generation iteration...


Upfront Surgery for Diverticulitis Reduced Recurrence Without Affecting QOL
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115039.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- In patients with recurring, persistent painful, or complicated diverticulitis, early surgery prevented recurrences but did not significantly improve quality of life (QOL) compared with conservative treatment, according to results...


Randomized Trial Tests Yoga as Knee Osteoarthritis Therapy
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/115xxx/115010.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee got at least as much benefit from yoga as from conventional strength training in a randomized trial, researchers said. Pain was reduced about equally with yoga and strength training...


Penicillin to Prevent Pharyngitis; Prothrombin vs Frozen Plasma
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114974.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...


Embattled TAVR Device Myval Meets Expectations in Trial, but Trouble Still Ahead
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114984.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- For a balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR or TAVI) platform, the much-litigated Myval performed well enough in the COMPARE-TAVI 1 randomized trial, but its rates of pacemakers and paravalvular leaks...


CDC Cancer Team Fired; NIH Ordered to Study Transgender 'Regret'; AI May Help in OUD
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114963.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...


The Surgical 'Gold Standard' Fails Endometriosis Patients
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114934.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- Bindi Irwin's endometriosis journey began like many others'. Eight years of nausea, pain, and fatigue met with dismissive doctors and no diagnosis. Her suffering isolated her from people outside of her family, stealing joy from...


How Much Will That Surgery Cost? Hospital Prices Remain Largely Unhelpful.
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114933.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- It's a holy grail of healthcare: forcing the industry to reveal prices negotiated between health plans and hospitals -- information that had long been treated as a trade secret. And among the flurry of executive orders President...


TriClip's Tricuspid TEER Cuts Heart Failure Hospitalizations
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114921.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Champions of tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) were buoyed by 2-year results of the TRILUMINATE trial marking the first report of reduced heart failure (HF) hospitalization for this technology....


Evolut Low Risk TAVR Still Chugging Along, Now Halfway to Trial's Finish Line
<img src="https://clf1.medpagetoday.com/media/images/114xxx/114889.jpg"/> (MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) continued to hold its own against surgery for younger patients at low surgical risk, with the Evolut Low Risk trial now halfway to its goal of 10-year follow-up. In...