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Scott Hadland's Medicaid study of nearly 230,000 youth with opioid use disorder found medication starts edged up while six-month retention may have fallen. Most patients are lost before that point, since five in six young people engaged in care receive no medication at all.
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Rutgers researchers found that 97% of the 175,000 comments on the FDA's proposed menthol ban were form letters, with only 2% unique. The Biden administration later cited that response when it postponed the rule, and the study shows how little of it was independent.
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A year after quitting in protest, the authors argue the vulnerability at the CDC is structural rather than personal, and they point to the agency's unchanged vaccine-autism webpage as the cheapest available test of whether anything has improved.
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A JAMA Network Open study set Reddit's menopause talk beside UCSF's charts. Cognitive complaints ran nearly four times heavier online, and the cause is a coding decision, not a mystery.
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A UK cohort of more than 180,000 women links HRT to 10 percent lower dementia risk, and 26 percent after surgical menopause. Neither of this week's papers is a trial, and they disagree on mechanism.
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Nearly half the menthol form letters trace to Reynolds and Altria campaigns. Raw comment volume, uncorrected for duplication, is not a measurement of public sentiment.
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A STAT opinion piece argues the measurable shift in medical AI is not benchmark wins over physicians but the removal of the safety text that used to route people to care.
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Harvard researchers matched federal fatal-crash records to Spotify's ten biggest release days and found roughly 18 extra deaths per drop. The risky moment is picking the album, not playing it.
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