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TV Drug Ads Could Lose Their Website Shortcut for Risk Details Under an FDA Rule Planned for December
5+ hour, 6+ min ago (775+ words) The federal government plans to propose a rule in December that would end the option allowing television and radio drug ads to send viewers to a website, phone number, or other source for a medication's full risk information instead of…...
Diabetes Care Editors Halt Manuscript Reviews as Boycott of the American Diabetes Association Escalates Over June Ejections
5+ hour, 20+ min ago (830+ words) Editors of Diabetes Care, the American Diabetes Association's (ADA) flagship medical journal, have joined a boycott of the organization launched Sept. 10 by a group of diabetes researchers and clinicians. STAT reported on Sept. 11 that four of the journal's editors will…...
Low Vitamin D Before Mastectomy Tied to Three Times the Likelihood of Moderate Pain Among 184 Egyptian Patients
5+ hour, 6+ min ago (874+ words) Breast cancer patients who were vitamin D deficient before a mastectomy were about three times as likely to report moderate to severe pain in the first 24 hours after surgery, and they used more opioid medication, according to a 184-patient study…...
AI EKG Tool Authorized by FDA Aims to Flag Heart Attacks That Standard ST-Elevation Criteria Can Miss
5+ hour, 20+ min ago (896+ words) The Food and Drug Administration has authorized an artificial intelligence model that reads a standard 12-lead EKG and flags signs of the most urgent heart attacks, including patterns that conventional EKG criteria can miss. For a family in an emergency…...
Comments Close on Medicare's Plan to Pay for AI Diagnostic Software, and Some Lab Analyses Could Gain Copays
5+ hour, 51+ min ago (894+ words) The proposal is not a coverage decision. It does not add or remove any test from Medicare. It changes how Medicare pays for certain software-based services, and that detail matters to patients because different Medicare payment systems handle patient cost…...
Some Pancreatic Cancer Families Hit Insurance Delays After Rasonque Approval Closed the Drug's Free Early Access Program
6+ hour, 20+ min ago (952+ words) When the Food and Drug Administration approved the pancreatic cancer pill Rasonque on Aug. 26, the drugmaker's free early access program closed. For some patients who had not yet enrolled, insurance coverage was not ready to take its place. Her insurer,…...
Scans Pointed to Diverticulitis, but Surgeons Found a Woman's Appendix Had Tunneled into Her Colon
8+ hour, 46+ min ago (682+ words) For three months, a 46-year-old woman in India lived with pain low in her abdomen. When a CT scan finally pointed to a cause, it suggested a perforation linked to diverticular disease in her sigmoid colon. Surgeons later found something…...
A Woman Blew Her Nose to Ease Ear Pressure, and Air Tracked Through Her Ear into Her Skull
8+ hour, 36+ min ago (991+ words) A woman in her early 70s was in the shower when she blew her nose to relieve pressure and a crackling sensation in her left ear. When she was evaluated in an emergency department, her vital signs raised concern for dangerous…...
A Boy's Mystery Illness Was Lead Poisoning, and His Grandmother Found the Source Hanging from the Curtains
8+ hour, 42+ min ago (763+ words) The case was published Sept. 9 in Frontiers in Pediatrics by a team from RWTH Aachen University Hospital, RWTH Aachen University's Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine and the health department of Germany's Rhein-Erft-Kreis district. The boy had been healthy…...
A Clear Plastic Shard Showed Up on CT Scans but Hid from Surgeons Through Two Neck Operations
8+ hour, 56+ min ago (934+ words) CT scans kept showing the same thing: a thin, wire-like object about 30 millimeters long lodged deep in a 77-year-old woman's neck, in front of her spine. Yet two operations ended without anyone finding it. On the third try, surgeons located…...