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Health news and commentary gathered by MedPage Today staff
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MedPage Today Staff
October 28, 2024
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When former president Donald Trump talks about the “bad genes” of undocumented immigrants, experts hear rhetoric from the eugenics movement. (STAT)
If elected to a second term, Trump said he would let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health, medicine, and food. (The Hill)
With flu season about to hit, monitoring for bird flu cases is about to get much more complicated. (STAT)
Long COVID symptoms differ from the post-acute symptoms of other respiratory viruses, researchers found. (JAMA Network Open)
More than half of insured Americans don’t know how much their prescription drugs will cost. (Axios)
McDonald’s said it will resume selling Quarter Pounders this week, though in some states without the slivered onions linked to 75 cases of E. coli.
Both Republicans and Democrats are promising to crack down on fentanyl traffickers, focusing on law enforcement over treatment. (Politico)
Anti-abortion groups want the Supreme Court to overturn a 2000 ruling that prevented protesting outside of abortion clinics. (USA Today)
In what could be a first for the state, doctors at two medical centers in Oregon voted to authorize a strike over wages and work conditions. (KGW8)
Bariatric surgeries plunged 26% from 2022 to 2023 amid a rise in prescriptions for GLP-1 receptor agonists. (JAMA Network Open)
Dozens in Wisconsin were sickened by contaminated pizza after a cook inadvertently purchased oil containing Delta-9, a form of THC, after running out of cooking oil. (AP)
An astronaut who manned SpaceX’s Crew-8 mission was released from the hospital following an unspecified “medical issue.” (ABC News)
A federal lawsuit alleges a New Jersey hospital misplaced a stillborn infant’s remains and performed an autopsy against the parent’s wishes. (NJ.com)
Nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital may be penalized for enrolling in insurance plans that were not compliant with Massachusetts state law. (Boston.com)
This ICU nurse studies the administrative burdens that makes healthcare all the more challenging for patients. (STAT)
Grateful Dead bassist and founding member Phil Lesh has died at 84. (Los Angeles Times)
NPR offers an explainer on Internal Family Systems therapy and why it has surged in popularity.
The FDA warned not to use Hologic’s BioZorb Markers, which were recalled following a host of serious adverse events in patients who had the radiographic marker devices implanted in breast tissue.
Meanwhile, the agency released guidance for tattoo-ink makers to help identify and prevent microbial contamination.
The source of this woman’s abdominal pain and infections came from an unlikely source years after a complicated delivery. (Washington Post)
Ever heard of a “cancerversary“? This woman threw one 5 years after her stage IV breast cancer diagnosis. (Washington Post)
In Ethiopia, a surge in malaria is undoing years of progress against the disease. (New York Times)
The New York Times looks at cancer care in Gaza.
