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Some Hantavirus Cruise Passengers Are Back in the U.S.
(MedPage Today) -- More than two dozen passengers potentially exposed to hantavirus aboard a cruise ship disembarked almost 2 weeks ago, several sources confirmed to MedPage Today, and Americans who were among them are now back on U.S. soil.
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Can Migraine Drugs Guard Against Glaucoma? CGRP Inhibitors Show Promise
(MedPage Today) -- People who used calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) inhibitor drugs to prevent migraine had a lower risk of glaucoma, a retrospective study showed.
Among 74,000 migraine patients, those taking CGRP inhibitors for migraine... -
IL-6 Inhibitor Shows Promise in Diabetic Macular Edema
(MedPage Today) -- DENVER -- Targeting an inflammatory pathway in diabetic macular edema (DME), in addition to angiogenesis, led to greater improvement in visual acuity and retinal anatomy, a randomized trial showed.
Single-agent ranibizumab... -
Psych Trial Halted After Death; Curbing Phone Addiction; Most Worried Racial Group
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA halted patient enrollment in a phase III trial of evenamide in treatment-resistant schizophrenia following the sudden death of a participant, Newron Pharmaceuticals said.
Magnetic seizure therapy achieved similar remission... -
Get Your Hands Off My Patients!
(MedPage Today) -- The number one rule of emergency medicine is that you never get to do anything uninterrupted.
I hear a shout from one of the rooms: "Help!" I tap a paramedic on the shoulder, address him by name, and ask, "Can you check on them... -
Details of Fauci Aide's Arrest; MAHA PAC Low on Cash; Makary on Shaky Ground
(MedPage Today) -- When David Morens, MD, a top aide to Anthony Fauci, MD, was arrested by federal agents in late April, they removed his shirt and pants before handcuffing him and driving him to a courthouse in Maryland to be fingerprinted. A... -
VEGF Inhibitor Implant Preserves Visual Acuity, Retinal Anatomy in Wet AMD
(MedPage Today) -- DENVER -- A sustained-release VEGF inhibitor implant outperformed standard anti-VEGF therapy for maintaining visual acuity in neovascular, or wet, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), showed a randomized trial reported here... -
AI Company Sued Over Chatbots Allegedly Claiming to Be Licensed Doctors
(MedPage Today) -- Pennsylvania has sued an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot maker, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and are deceiving the system's users into thinking they are getting medical advice from a licensed...