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Medicare Faces Funding Problems in 2033
(MedPage Today) -- Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits in 2033, unchanged from last year's estimate, while Social Security's retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, according...
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Nearly a Third of Americans Will Live in States With Legal Aid in Dying by September
(MedPage Today) -- Jules Netherland traveled from her home in the Bronx to the New York state Capitol in Albany several times in the past few years, hoping to persuade the legislature to pass a medical aid in dying (MAID) bill, allowing terminally...
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Cancer Panelist's Ivermectin Paper; RFK Jr.'s Work Style; Measles Outbreak Genetics
(MedPage Today) -- Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, the chair of the President's Cancer Panel, is a co-author on a new paper in Anticancer Research promoting ivermectin and mebendazole as a cancer treatment. The paper is backed by anti-vaccine organizations...
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AMA to Fund Studies Comparing Care From Physicians vs NPs, PAs
(MedPage Today) -- Concerned that unsupervised nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) provide patient care that is not as good or safe as that provided by physicians, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates voted...
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The Diabetes Burden Inside and Outside the ADA Conference Hall
(MedPage Today) -- I did not see the police officers muscle the five diabetes experts out of the convention center in New Orleans at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting because I was inside the meeting room where the opening session...
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AMA Adopts Policy Pushing Back on AI Creep in Medicine
(MedPage Today) -- Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine must always be overseen by physicians, according to a policy adopted by the American Medical Association (AMA) on Tuesday. At its annual meeting on Tuesday, AMA's House of Delegates passed...
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Lawsuits Claiming Social Media Is 'Addictive' Gain Momentum
(MedPage Today) -- Social media has been on trial for allegedly harming youth mental health, and tech companies have been facing uphill legal battles in recent months. In a landmark case in March, a California jury found Meta and Google liable...
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Video: ADA Leader Apologizes to Researchers Ejected From Meeting
(MedPage Today) -- The CEO of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has apologized to five members who were escorted by police out of the organization's annual meeting in New Orleans last week after they distributed an editorial criticizing the...
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FDA Issues Safety Alert on Weight-Loss Drug's Kidney Risks
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA issued a drug safety communication approving a label change that warns about the risk of kidney stones or kidney injury with the over-the-counter (OTC) weight loss drug orlistat (Alli), the agency said Wednesday.
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Genetic Risk of Autism, ADHD Decreased as Diagnoses Increased
(MedPage Today) -- Among people with diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), genetic risk has decreased over time, a cohort study from Denmark suggested.
