(MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO -- Intravenous acetaminophen for critically ill patients with sepsis did not improve mortality or reduce the need for organ support, according to the phase IIb ASTER trial. In the randomized study, patients treated...

(MedPage Today) -- Cannabis legalization led to more hospital trips for cannabis poisoning among older adults, administrative data in Canada showed. Emergency department (ED) visits for cannabis poisoning among older people in Ontario doubled...

(MedPage Today) -- LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Both sparsentan (Filspari) and irbesartan were associated with significantly slower estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) decline compared with standard of care in patients with immunoglobulin A...

(MedPage Today) -- Healthcare organizations seemed pleased with a Senate Finance Committee white paper on problems with physician payment under the Medicare fee-for-service program, even though the paper was vague on some plans for addressing the...

(MedPage Today) -- Contrary to earlier studies, the not-entirely-rare condition known as monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) did not appear to raise risk for autoimmune disease when examined in the general population. In...

(MedPage Today) -- The FDA has withdrawn the approval of infigratinib (Truseltiq) as a second-line treatment for metastatic cholangiocarcinoma at the request of the drugmaker, the agency announced on Friday. Infigratinib, a fibroblast growth factor...