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(MedPage Today) -- With H5N1 avian influenza causing unprecedented outbreaks in mammals around the world -- including U.S. dairy cattle -- infectious disease experts are raising concerns that the U.S. isn't doing enough to get ahead of any...

(MedPage Today) -- Overprescribing warning letters modestly cut the use of antipsychotic medications without apparent repercussion in people with dementia, a secondary analysis of a randomized trial indicated. Compared with primary care physicians...

(MedPage Today) -- Mutations in ESR1 do not appear to confer breast cancer resistance to cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK)4/6 inhibitors, an analysis of clinical practice data suggested. Patients with metastatic hormone receptor-positive breast cancer...

(MedPage Today) -- People with a history of uveitis were more likely to experience recurrences of the potentially dangerous eye inflammation after vaccination against COVID-19, a retrospective population-based cohort study from South Korea found...

(MedPage Today) -- Prolonged deployment to military bases with open burn pits was associated with increased risks for certain respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, according to a retrospective cohort study using Veterans Health Administration...

(MedPage Today) -- Welcome to MedAI Roundup, highlighting the latest news and research in healthcare-related artificial intelligence each month. Robert Pearl, MD, of Stanford University, wrote a book on the potential of AI in healthcare -- and...

(MedPage Today) -- Ever since college, Brad Jobling struggled with his weight, fluctuating between a low of 155 pounds when he was in his 30s to as high as 220. He spent a decade tracking calories on WeightWatchers, but the pounds he dropped always...

(MedPage Today) -- The following contains links to social media websites including X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Is Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department," an ode to medicine? According to medical student @NDAcademic...

(MedPage Today) -- Across a large population of female nurses, those identifying as lesbian or bisexual had earlier mortality compared with their heterosexual counterparts, a prospective cohort study showed. Among 90,833 women in the Nurses' Health...

(MedPage Today) -- Several relatives of patients who died while waiting for a new liver said Wednesday they want to know if their loved ones were wrongfully denied a transplant by a Houston doctor accused of manipulating the waitlist to make some...

(MedPage Today) -- We are emergency medicine physicians familiar with burnout. We're not alone. In fact, 65% of emergency medicine doctors are burned out. The irony is that the people who take an oath to care for sick people are themselves working...

(MedPage Today) -- Doctors in Japan have sued Google over bad reviews. (Japan Times) A pharmacy employee at UPMC Presbyterian has been accused of stealing more than $425,000 from the hospital. (Trib Live) Retired Navy doctor Bruce Coval Meneley...

(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Former White House Chief Medical Adviser and NIAID director Anthony Fauci, MD, will testify before Congress about COVID-19's origin and the government's response...

(MedPage Today) -- A majority of pregnant individuals or those trying to become pregnant were interested in getting a maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine once it became available, a nationwide survey found. Of 1,528 respondents...

(MedPage Today) -- The Supreme Court appeared divided during oral arguments Wednesday in a case involving whether states can determine if emergency departments may provide abortions to pregnant people in cases where their life is not in immediate...