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Two Weeks into a GLP-1 Diabetes Shot, His Family Noticed a Smell That Stopped When the Drug Did

A 57-year-old man developed an unpleasant body odor on dulaglutide. It faded when he stopped and returned when doctors gave it again.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Nine Children Have Been Caught in Electric Nail Trimmers, and the Newest Cases Needed Stitches

Four journal reports in two years describe nine children with lips, tongues, eyelids and facial skin caught in motorized nail trimmers.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

A Toy Cup Sat in Her Lung 51 Years Because Doctors Assumed She Had Coughed It Up

She inhaled a Barbie doll house cup at age 8 and told doctors for decades. Plastic is invisible on X-rays, so nobody ever looked inside.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

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A Rat in His Toilet Bit His Fingers and Gave Him a Disease That Normally Spreads Through Urine

A Montreal man bitten by a rat in his toilet developed organ failure. The bacteria that nearly killed him spread through urine, not saliva.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Freeing a 4-Year-Old's Lip from an Electric Nail Trimmer Took a Fire Crew and a Rotary Cutting Tool

Doctors in Riyadh needed a rotary cutting tool to free a preschooler's lip from an electric nail trimmer. Pulling would have made it worse.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Two Drugmakers Paid More Than a Quarter Million American Prescribers as Weight Loss Drug Sales Climbed

An analysis of federal payment data found Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk paid over 250,000 US prescribers as GLP-1 weight loss drug sales grew.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

A Tennessee Forensic Center Now Links 63 Deaths to a Synthetic Opioid Federal Officials Flagged in April

A Knox County forensic center has tied 63 deaths to cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid most laboratories are not equipped to test for.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

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Baltimore Has Already Matched Last Year's Infant Sleep Death Total with Four Months Left in 2026

Baltimore has recorded 11 sleep-related infant deaths in 2026, matching all of last year. Officials say bed sharing was involved in most cases.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Democratic Lawmakers Ask Federal Regulators to Halt a Program Collecting Identifiable Emergency Room Records from US Hospitals

Lawmakers want the CPSC to suspend a program collecting identifiable ER records, warning it could discourage people from seeking urgent care.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Newly Public 9/11 Records Show City Lawyers Estimated 35,000 Potential Toxic Exposure Plaintiffs Weeks After the Attacks

New York City released 170,000 pages of 9/11 records. One memo shows that officials estimated 35,000 potential toxic-exposure plaintiffs in 2001.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

A Drug-Resistant Ringworm Strain Is Now Confirmed in Twenty-Nine Countries as US Testing Capacity Stays Thin

A study in the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases traced drug-resistant ringworm across 29 countries. US surveillance stays thin and voluntary.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Federal Regulators Bar Eleven Medical Equipment Suppliers That Billed Medicare for Beneficiaries Who Had Already Died

CMS barred 11 medical equipment suppliers tied to $3.4 billion in suspected fraudulent billing, saying all of them billed for deceased beneficiaries.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Weight Loss Drug Prescriptions for Children Aged Eight to Eleven Rose Sharply but Remain Rare Nationally

A new Pediatrics study found GLP-1 prescribing in children aged 8 to 11 rose 310-fold since 2019, though only 0.6 percent ever received one.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Supreme Court Declines to Block New York School Vaccine Rule for Kindergartner as Measles Cases Climb

The Supreme Court denied an emergency bid to exempt a New York kindergartner from school vaccine rules. The order sets no precedent on the merits.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

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Medical Daily · Sep 10

Nearly 200 Women Died After Ectopic Pregnancies Since 2020 and No Federal Agency Has Publicly Responded

Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled since 2020 in federal data, and no US health agency has publicly responded. Here is what patients should know.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Wire Cutters and Bolt Cutters Failed on the Zipper Holding Her Eyelid, So Doctors Grabbed a Cast Saw

A 10-year-old caught her upper eyelid in a sweatshirt zipper. After cutters failed, emergency doctors used a vibrating cast saw to free her.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

His Sneezing Attacks Hit 78 a Day for Nine Years and Neurologists Gave the Pattern a New Name

A man had sneeze-like attacks up to 78 times a day for nine years. Neurologists diagnosed a functional disorder and proposed a new subtype.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Dr. Sarah Daccarett on the Estradiol Patch Shortage and the Delivery Route That Isn't Affected

Women across the United States are being told their estradiol patches are unavailable. The Food and Drug Administration says there is no shortage. Both statements are, in a narrow sense, accurate, and the space between them is where patients are losing access to treatment.

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Medical Daily · Sep 10

He Coughed the Growth Off His Vocal Cord During a Morning Walk and It Came Back Anyway

A man coughed up a vocal cord polyp mid-walk and carried it to an ENT clinic. The relief did not last, and the case has a lesson.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

A Patient Accidentally Received 12.5 Grams of a Painkiller Banned in the US and Never Got Sick

An accidental 12.5-gram dipyrone dose produced no organ toxicity across 62 days of monitoring, and the pharmacokinetics explain why.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Doctors Tried a Hacksaw and Two Cutters Before an Orthopedic Tool Freed the Ring Strangling His Penis

A metal ring trapped at the penile base defeated a hacksaw and two surgical cutters before a tungsten carbide orthopedic tool cut it free.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Planned San Diego Power Outages Continue This Week and Home Medical Equipment Users Should Prepare Now

SDG&E has planned outages in Ocean Beach, Lemon Grove, Escondido, Ramona, and more this week. Here is what medically vulnerable households should do.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Chikungunya Cases in US Travelers Reach 89 with No Local Spread as Six Countries Carry Outbreak Notices

Federal data show 89 travel-associated chikungunya cases in US states with no local spread, while outbreak notices cover six countries.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

HHS Names Permanent Leaders of FDA Drug and Vaccine Centers, Setting the Direction for Future Reviews

HHS has named permanent directors for the FDA centers that regulate drugs, vaccines, and tobacco, plus a first deputy commissioner for AI.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

Blood Levels of the Sugar Free Sweetener Xylitol Linked to 57 Percent Higher Six Year Heart Risk

Adults with the highest blood xylitol had a 57% higher six-year risk of heart attack, stroke, or death in a new cohort analysis.

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