(MedPage Today) -- Diabetes patients on dulaglutide (Trulicity) had better glycemic control and more weight loss if they switched to tirzepatide (Mounjaro) rather than increasing the dose of the earlier-generation GLP-1 receptor agonist, an open...

(MedPage Today) -- Use of large language model (LLM)-generated plain language summaries for ophthalmology notes was associated with improved understanding and satisfaction among non-ophthalmology clinicians, a randomized quality improvement study...

(MedPage Today) -- The CDC's Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) was eliminated in its entirety during the mass layoffs at HHS this week, sources told MedPage Today. Hundreds of people who worked for the office have lost their jobs, according to...

(MedPage Today) -- A 60-year-old patient of mine was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. He described the treatment options that were discussed with him -- surgery or radiation -- and then told me the surgeon said, "If you were my father...

(MedPage Today) -- Internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, takes a look at visible signs of thyroid disease. Following is a partial transcript of the video (note that errors are possible): Deshauer: There's a small...

(MedPage Today) -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled for the FDA in its crackdown on sweet-flavored vaping products following a surge in teen electronic cigarette use. But the justices' unanimous decision throwing out a federal appeals court...

(MedPage Today) -- Americans eligible for lung cancer screening are about four times less likely to undergo screening for the disease than for breast cancer or colorectal cancer (CRC), an analysis of CDC survey data found. Population-weighted...

(MedPage Today) -- There was no overall increased risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes after SARS-CoV-2 infection in a highly vaccinated and boosted Asian cohort when milder COVID-19 variants were predominant, a study in Singapore showed. Compared...

(MedPage Today) -- Vaccination against herpes zoster, or shingles, was tied to significantly less dementia risk, a large-scale analysis of electronic health records in Wales showed. Receiving the live-attenuated zoster vaccine (Zostavax) reduced...

(MedPage Today) -- Calley Means and Casey Means, MD, have leveraged their entrepreneurial and medical backgrounds to launch themselves into HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s orbit and hold increasing influence in Washington. The sibling pair...

(MedPage Today) -- A novel plasma-based assay was more strongly associated with tau tangle pathology in Alzheimer's disease than other established blood biomarkers, researchers said. The assay measured a new plasma tau species known as endogenously...

(MedPage Today) -- People invited to undergo fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) were more likely to participate in colorectal cancer screening compared with those invited to undergo colonoscopy, the randomized COLONPREV trial showed. In an intention...

(MedPage Today) -- A patient navigation program significantly increased follow-up colonoscopy among those with an abnormal fecal immunochemical test (FIT), a randomized trial showed. In an intention-to-treat analysis of 967 patients at a community...

(MedPage Today) -- Three days of intermittent fasting (IMF) each week was a bit better for weight loss than daily caloric restriction (DCR), the DRIFT randomized trial found. Over 12 months, participants who restricted their energy intake by 80...

(MedPage Today) -- The number of U.S. adults without diabetes using GLP-1 receptor agonists more than tripled from 2018 to 2022, boosting annual spending from $1.6 billion to $5.8 billion, survey data showed. Based on an unweighted sample of nearly...

(MedPage Today) -- Prenatal use of smoking cessation therapies was not linked to increased risks of major congenital malformations (MCMs) compared with smoking during the first trimester, a retrospective cohort study suggested. Compared with unexposed...

(MedPage Today) -- Every day, as all of us try to take care of so many patients in so many settings, we are faced with a seemingly endless stream of tasks. From our last visit with them, we look back when we pre-chart and see the things that we...

(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- For people with heart failure (HF), the long-presumed benefits of fluid restriction did not pan out in the FRESH-UP randomized trial. Patients showed similar changes in their Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire...

(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- The WARRIOR trial was not able to prove that intensive medical therapy reduced major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in women with ischemia but no obstructive disease. For symptomatic patients with suspected...

(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Semaglutide further solidified its efficacy for diabetes-associated cardiovascular conditions, this time building its positions in peripheral artery disease (PAD) and with an oral formulation, based on two major...

(MedPage Today) -- Education level was associated with the trajectory of cognitive decline following stroke, an individual participant data meta-analysis of four U.S. cohort studies showed. After adjusting for pre-stroke cognition, college-educated...