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Vanessa Trump, 48, the former wife of Donald Trump Jr., announced she has breast canceropens in a new tab or window. (People)
Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch died at age 41 after being hospitalized with a severe illness.opens in a new tab or window (AP)
The Justice Department filed criminal charges against Minnesota autism therapy providersopens in a new tab or window accused of $46 million in Medicaid fraud. (New York Times)
In a phase III study, patients with obesity treated with a 12-mg dose of the investigational triple-receptor agonist retatrutide dropped a mean 28% of their body weight over 80 weeks, Eli Lilly announcedopens in a new tab or window. Nearly half had weight loss of 30% or greater, levels typically only seen with bariatric surgery.
Planned Parenthood clinics in two states will begin providing “advanced provisions” of abortion medicationopens in a new tab or window for future use. (NPR)
The FDA will hold an advisory committee meeting next month to review Moderna’s novel mRNA flu vaccineopens in a new tab or window, according to a notice in the Federal Register.
As vaccine policy at the federal level adopts a skeptical stance, here’s what Colorado is doing to maintain and even bolster accessopens in a new tab or window. (KFF Health News)
Investigators in New Mexico are trying to identify a mysterious substance that may have contributed to the deaths of three peopleopens in a new tab or window and led to more than a dozen first responders being briefly quarantined. (AP)
In Tennessee, a death row inmate has been given a 1-year reprieveopens in a new tab or window from his planned execution after a backup vein for the lethal injection could not be identified. (USA Today)
Actor Noah Wyle — who stars as Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch in “The Pitt” — told Congress that healthcare workers “should not have to beg for basic supportopens in a new tab or window from a system that they hold together.” (The Hill)
Citing 10 cases of locally acquired malaria in 2023, a CDC report warned that the U.S. is still susceptibleopens in a new tab or window to the reintroduction of malaria transmission.
Over a third of U.S. adults responding to the 2024 National Health Interview Survey said they experienced a sunburn in the prior 12 monthsopens in a new tab or window, often despite sunscreen use, and 7.5% reported four or more sunburns. (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Radiologist Nicole Saphier, MD, the latest nominee for surgeon general, uses a tax break intended for farmersopens in a new tab or window to shave dollars off her property taxes. (Politico)
A New York man who was a passenger on the hantavirus-hit cruise ship said the quarantine center in Nebraska feels like a prisonopens in a new tab or window. (NBC News)
People set fire to an Ebola treatment centeropens in a new tab or window in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man. (AP)
The State Department ordered Americans returning from Ebola-affected countries to pass through Dulles airportopens in a new tab or window in Washington, D.C., for enhanced screening measures.
Meanwhile, amid U.S. flight restrictions tied to the Ebola outbreak, an Air France flight bound for Detroit was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the Congo boardedopens in a new tab or window in Paris “in error.” (AP)
Fuente: https://www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyoncology/breastcancer/121408
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