(MedPage Today) -- Many of President-elect Donald Trump's candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with one another or with Trump's choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services ...

(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved tirzepatide (Zepbound) for adults with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and obesity, the agency announced late Friday. Used along with diet and exercise, this marks the first and only prescription...

(MedPage Today) -- Antibiotic use didn't raise the risk of dementia in healthy older adults, a prospective study suggested. Over about 5 years of follow-up, antibiotic use was not tied to higher dementia incidence (HR 1.03, 95% CI 0.84-1.25) compared...

(MedPage Today) -- In the wake of state public health officials barring promotion of certain vaccines -- as is occurring in Louisiana -- physicians and medical societies must speak out about the value of vaccination in children as well as adults...

(MedPage Today) -- The U.S. flu season is underway, with cases surging across much of the country, health officials said Friday. The CDC noted sharp increases in several measures, including lab tests and emergency department visits. "It's been...

(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Louisiana is no longer allowing public health workers to promote vaccines for COVID, the flu, or mpox. (NPR) In an effort to avert a government shutdown, House...

(MedPage Today) -- Self-reported physical function was better for long COVID patients after a brief outpatient program based on cognitive and behavioral therapy, a pragmatic trial in Norway showed. Scores on the Short-Form Health Survey 36 Physical...

(MedPage Today) -- Salmon, low-fat yogurt, trail mix, olive oil, and eggs are among the foods that can now be called "healthy" under a final rule issued by the FDA on Thursday. Meanwhile, fortified white bread and highly sweetened yogurt and cereal...

(MedPage Today) -- A man in western Congo died Thursday with hemorrhagic fever symptoms, leading officials to suspect that a still-unidentified virus may be involved alongside malaria in a mysterious outbreak that has killed dozens of people, health...

(MedPage Today) -- The shortage of the diabetes and obesity injectable tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) has been resolved, the FDA announced Thursday. As a result, compounders will have a grace period of 60 to 90 days to wrap up production and...

(MedPage Today) -- President-elect Donald Trump may have once scored a perfect 30/30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), but artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots didn't perform nearly as well. On the well-known cognitive screen, most...

(MedPage Today) -- Non-randomized evidence on standard Ebola virus disease (EVD) control measures and ring vaccination in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reinforced previous randomized evidence of vaccine efficacy 10 or more days after...

(MedPage Today) -- Moderate wine consumption maintained its association with cardiovascular benefit when self-reports were taken out of the equation, the large PREDIMED trial showed. Using urinary tartaric acid as an objective biomarker measuring...

(MedPage Today) -- The U.S. has reported its first severe case of H5N1 bird flu requiring hospitalization, the CDC announced. The patient, in Louisiana, had exposure to sick and dead birds in a backyard flock, according to CDC, which confirmed...

(MedPage Today) -- In an update 12 years in the making, two orthopedic surgeons' organizations have issued new guidance on preventing periprosthetic joint infections (PJIs) when patients undergo dental procedures before or after hip and knee replacements...

(MedPage Today) -- Among the biggest-grossing films in America in February 2002 were a war drama about American troops in Somalia ("Black Hawk Down"), an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie ("Collateral Damage"), and a future Oscar winner about...

(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- Policy experts and advocates debated the best ways to use opioid settlement funds during an event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute on Monday. Opioid manufacturers and other stakeholders have been directed...

(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. A discredited paper that backed the use of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment early on in the pandemic has been retracted. (USA Today) Do you live in one...

(MedPage Today) -- Luigi Mangione, the person charged with murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, reportedly had spinal surgery for chronic back pain caused by spondylolisthesis. Spondylolisthesis occurs when a vertebra slips forward...

(MedPage Today) -- Teen drug use hasn't rebounded from its drop during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results from a large annual national survey released Tuesday. About two-thirds of 12th graders this year said they...

(MedPage Today) -- Taxi drivers and ambulance drivers -- two groups of people with jobs that require frequent spatial and navigational processing -- had the lowest proportions of deaths attributed to Alzheimer's disease, an analysis of U.S...