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The Canadian government has assured the pharmaceutical industry that new features of its plan to cut drug costs would apply only to new medicines, Health Canada said, offering some relief to drugmakers even as other regulations could still lower prices of medicines already on the market.

(Reuters Health) - Older women who get in enough steps each day to walk the equivalent of about two miles - far less than the five-mile goal set by many Americans - might still live longer than their less active counterparts, a U.S. study suggests.

(MedPage Today) -- Too much focus on cutting hospitalizations, not enough $$ for docs, critics say

The father of a university football player who died of a drug overdose provided emotional testimony about the U.S. opioid epidemic's personal cost on Wednesday during the second day of trial in a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusing Johnson & Johnson of fueling the crisis.

(MedPage Today) -- Combo improved PFS over sunitinib, but no OS benefit in IMmotion151

The term gender incongruence is used by the WHO to describe people whose gender identity is different from the gender they were assigned at birth.

Ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s disease is the latest in the growing field of focused ultrasound. With focused ultrasound, doctors use the sound waves to actively treat a condition rather than passively produce images of it.

The case, Oklahoma vs. J&J, is being closely watched by lawyers in nearly 1,900 similar state and federal cases in the U.S.

The FDA has cleared a noninvasive device that uses smartphone-controlled electronic pulses to relieve acute migraine pain.

(Reuters Health) - Between 2003 and 2011, rates of insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis among U.S. Army soldiers increased by more than 600 percent, a new study finds.

(MedPage Today) -- "One of the most complex health emergencies the world has faced," expert says

If research confirms that high cholesterol plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease, officials may need to reduce our target levels for “bad” LDL cholesterol, the study author said.

(MedPage Today) -- The OVER trial, a decade later, holds some surprises

(MedPage Today) -- Tumor lysis syndrome tamed with upfront ibrutinib plus venetoclax

(Reuters Health) - Many patients with life-threatening food allergies may feel anxious or overwhelmed at times, but it's rare for mental health professionals to be involved in their care, suggests a survey of U.S. centers of excellence in allergy treatment.

(MedPage Today) -- Fuel efficiency among taxi fleet more than doubled, study finds

The father of a university football player who died of a drug overdose provided emotional testimony about the personal cost of the nationwide opioid epidemic on Wednesday during the second day of trial in a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusing drugmaker Johnson & Johnson of fueling the crisis.

(MedPage Today) -- 'Usual suspect' risk factors don't fully explain surprising increase, mostly among white adults

Good Omens co-stars, David Tennant and Michael Sheen, discuss the difficulty of losing your anonymity after fame.

(MedPage Today) -- Findings "consistent with imitation effect," but cannot show causality