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High blood pressure is known as the silent killer. Researchers are finding new ways to fight back.
(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 Texas Tech Health El P
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(MedPage Today) -- Lowering lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), did not translate into better cardiovascular outcomes in a secondary prevention population, at least not with pelacarsen in the Lp(a) HORIZON trial. Among people with
Read full story: Lp(a)-Lowering Pelacarsen Shows Huge Disconnect With Cardiovascular Outcomes
(MedPage Today) -- A few clicks, a credit card, and a package arrives at your door. The same technology that has expanded access to information and consumer goods has also made it easier than ever for unregulated product
Read full story: Retatrutide Is One Click Away. That Doesn't Make it Safe.
The model is a test of Trump's most-favored nation approach to drug pricing, though its impact is likely to be limited.
(MedPage Today) -- People may have been getting high off cannabis earlier than previously thought -- at least 2,800 years ago, a new study suggests. Archaeologists who led a dig at a monumental tomb in Siberia said they
Read full story: Study Finds Evidence of Cannabis Use 2,800 Years Ago
By every measure, the drugs were no better than placebos, full data revealed on Saturday. Was it the fault of the design of the studies, or our very hypotheses about heart disease?
Read full story: How Cardiologists’ High Hopes for Two Drugs Were Dashed
Medical mystery at the AHA conference: A Novartis drug lowered a risk marker for cardiovascular disease but did not lower chance of heart attack or stroke.
“These results, the fact that they're negative, does not invalidate that inflammation plays a very important role in cardiovascular disease."
KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media in recent weeks to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Read full story: Our Reporters Discuss Healthcare Costs — And What Changes the Midterms May Portend
The blue wave in the state on Nov. 3 now runs headlong into the reality of Texas politics and a compressed legislative calendar.
(MedPage Today) -- On Friday, as some public health groups continued to call for the impeachment of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kennedy's fate remained up in the air following the Democrats' overwhelming sweep i
Read full story: Will RFK Jr. Face Impeachment Under New Congress?
(MedPage Today) -- Drugmaker Novartis acknowledged Thursday that there have been nine reports of tumors in children treated with its gene therapy onasemnogene abeparvovec (Zolgensma) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Tw
Read full story: Gene Therapy Under Scrutiny After Nine Tumor Reports
(MedPage Today) -- Treatment with both elafibranor (Iqirvo) and seladelpar (Livdelzi) led to alkaline phosphatase (ALP) normalization in the vast majority of patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) who had elevat
Read full story: New Trials Back Quickly Approved Drugs for Primary Biliary Cholangitis
The Trump administration is facing another lawsuit over its sweeping changes to Medicaid less than a week after a federal judge ruled that implementation of work requirements would cause “irreparable…
Read full story: STAT+: States sue Trump administration again to delay Medicaid work requirements
In a no-holds-barred interview with Joe Rogan, Calley Means, a former top health adviser, accused Susie Wiles of repeatedly bowing to lobbying pressures and fixating on campaign contributions.
(MedPage Today) -- More than 100,000 Hawaii residents who qualify for Medicaid may soon find their doctors prescribing them fresh food as medicine. The script could be for fresh fruit and vegetables, even ahi, beef, chic
Read full story: Hawaii Doctors May Soon Start Prescribing Fresh Food
Calley Means, a MAHA leader who just resigned from the Trump administration, says Americans "are being duped and gaslighted and lied to."
Two newly elected lawmakers with science backgrounds hope to push back against Trump administration cuts to health equity programs.
Read full story: Two incoming lawmakers plan to defend health equity from Trump administration cuts
Wait times for hospital beds are getting longer, clogging up emergency rooms, and doctors say it is only getting worse.
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