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A physician and epidemiologist who nearly died of measles in 1961 warns in STAT about this year's surge. Working through the essay's own figures puts the susceptible share of a childhood cohort near one in ten.
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The U.N. counts 205 attacks on Sudanese health facilities since 2023, and the WHO puts 37 percent of health centers destroyed. Neither number says how much cancer treatment is left, or where a patient can still get chemotherapy.
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Writing in STAT, two physicians who treat the behavioral effects of brain disease say nothing in the Wall Street Journal's account of Sen. John Fetterman is medically surprising, while stating plainly that they cannot diagnose him from press clippings.
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In February 2025 the FDA scrapped the blood-monitoring registry that governed clozapine for three decades. A psychiatrist who prescribes it to children says the paperwork was never the binding constraint. The number that would test that claim is missing.
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Expanding nutrition coaching and produce prescriptions runs through dietitians, whose mean pay sits roughly $40,000 below adjacent clinical licenses and whose intake has been contracting since well before the 2024 master's mandate.
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Intismeran autogene would arrive with a selection procedure where other drugs have a fixed molecule, and the outside expert STAT asked could not say what the software weighs. That makes the ranking code the hard part of any review.
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A five-month records hunt across all 64 Louisiana sheriffs produced the first detailed accounting of the carve-out, and the two tests applied to that spending both came from outside the state.
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Two August analyses of the same cohort found calcium scores only change predictions at borderline and intermediate PREVENT risk. CTs ordered for other reasons did the job as well.
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The CDC's new life table clears the pre-pandemic baseline by 0.2 years, with injury, cardiac, cancer and homicide deaths doing much of the work. The margin is thinner than one year of movement.
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An NBER working paper puts the effect at about 34 fewer cans a year per recipient. The substitution argument economists made survives, but not in the form they made it.
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The global Ervebo stockpile released doses for an outbreak the shot was not licensed against. Most of them will be given outside the trial that could tell anyone whether it works.
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Clinicians writing in STAT argue that eligibility systems keyed to an HIV diagnosis will read a cure as proof that need has ended. Roughly 300,000 long-term survivors are exposed.
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A U.K. study reports 0.1% prostate cancer mortality 10 years after focal treatment. A paper out last week finds half of the men getting it sit outside the risk band guidelines contemplate.
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A pediatrician's account in STAT puts a district-issued device at the centre of sexual chat with a 12-year-old. The only filter that caught it belonged to the parents.
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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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Higher education groups have sued DHS over a rule capping international students' and scholars' stay at four years from Sept. 15. Research directors should model the staffing gap now.
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