Preparing for the Next Era in Early Breast Cancer: Integrating Oral SERDs Into Clinical Practice

Preparing for the Next Era in Early Breast Cancer: Integrating Oral SERDs Into Clinical Practice Engage in this educational curriculum to hear top breast cancer experts discuss the current treatment landscape for EBC and how oral SERDs may change the way patients are managed. Clinical trial designs and available data using oral SERDs will be discussed, as well as patient eligibility criteria to be able to select the best treatment options for patients to improve outcomes. https://www.medscape.org/advances/integrating-oral-serds-into-ebc-2026a1001284

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Medscape Issues in Cardiology Report 2026: Balancing Medical Advances and Practice Demands Tony Stasiek

https://www.medscape.com/p11/medscape-issues-cardiology-report-2026-balancing-medical-2026a100145j Cardiologists have a growing range of tools to prevent and treat heart disease. But with each comes more decisions: Which patients need additional testing? What's the best cholesterol target? And who are really the best candidates for GLP-1s? Medscape surveyed 152 US cardiologists to learn more about the top challenges they face, how their practices are evolving, and which approaches they've gravitated to when delivering care.

Medscape Residents Lifestyle and AI Report 2026: What 'Learning by Doing' Looks Like Today Tony Stasiek

https://www.medscape.com/p11/medscape-residents-lifestyle-and-ai-report-2026-what-2026a100144l A meme making the rounds on LinkedIn includes text that says something like, "It takes 4.5 people to do my job" — only with the "4.5 people" crossed out and replaced with "83,000 AI tokens." It's one of many signals of the threats and promises that AI presents in the professional world. For folks in medical residency, stepping into what's often their first job, AI also looms large on their future as well as on how they're feeling about their residency right now.

The Doctors Are In: A Bigger, Bluer Physician Class Heads to a Divided Washington Debbie Koenig

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/doctors-are-bigger-bluer-physician-class-heads-divided-2026a10016ju?ecd=WNL_trdalrt_pos1_ous_261109_etid8882980&uac=148436CN&impID=8882980 When Annie Andrews, MD, a South Carolina pediatric hospitalist, defeated Sen. Darline Graham on election night, she became the first Democrat to win a Senate race in the state since 1998. Her upset helped Democrats retake the Senate majority. It also capped a decade-long shift: Physicians in Congress have gone from a largely Republican bloc to one more mixed.

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Science Literacy Project Daily Digest Science Controversies in the Media 4 key ways the Blue Wave will upend science policy New York Times https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/11/09/4-key-ways-the-blue-wave-will-upend-science-policy/ Democrats are poised to take control of Congress, and some are vowing to do more than play defense against the Trump administration’s overhaul of federal research. But much of that overhaul may lie beyond their reach, as The New York Times reports. More than 80% of ‘pro-science’ candidates were swept into office. Will they have a policy impact? Wired https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/11/09/more-than-80-of-pro-science-candidates-were-swept-into-office-will-they-have-a-policy-impact/ The midterms sent an unusual wave of doctors and scientists into office, and many shared the same backer: the 314 Action Fund, a political action committee dedicated to electing pro-science Democrats. As Wired’s Katie Knibbs reports, 14 of the PAC’s 17 U.S. House candidates won, along with hundreds of down-ballot candidates, a success rate topping 80 percent. Blue, purple and red states passed or reaffirmed bans on trans females competing in women’s sports Washington Post https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/11/09/blue-purple-and-red-states-passed-or-reaffirmed-bans-on-trans-females-competing-in-womens-sports/ Voters in four states this week approved or tightened limits on transgender athletes competing in girls’ and women’s sports — a rare conservative win in an otherwise historic blue-wave midterm, as the Washington Post’s Annie Gowen and Todd Wallack report. Voters hate AI data centers, yet they are crucial to establishing a critical technology. So what’s next? Wall Street Journal https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/11/09/voters-hate-ai-data-centers-yet-they-are-crucial-to-establishing-a-critical-technology-so-whats-next/ Midterms delivered a jolt to the AI industry: candidates promising to freeze data-center development won statehouses in Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan, four of the country’s biggest data-center markets. Now tech giants are scrambling to adjust, as The Wall Street Journal’s Meghan Bobrowsky and Maxwell Zeff report. Viewpoint: Democratic tsunami: As the red tide recedes, here are the most likely shifts in food and agricultural policy Civil Eats https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/11/06/viewpoint-democratic-tsunami-as-the-red-tide-recedes-here-are-the-most-likely-shifts-in-food-and-agricultural-policy/ Democrats retook both the House and Senate in Tuesday’s midterms, and the shift could ripple from the farm bill to the grocery aisle, as Civil Eats’ Lisa Held reports. “Tariffs, diesel, fertilizer, farm labor, and grocery bills were all on the ballot,” said David Ortega, a professor of food economics and policy at Michigan State University. “The question now is what those results change about food and farm policy.” $7.35 billion PFAS settlement: 3M to pay people who blame health problems on ‘forever chemicals’ phased out of firefighting foam for more than 20 years Associated Press https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/11/06/7-35-billion-pfas-settlement-3m-to-pay-people-who-blame-health-problems-on-forever-chemicals-phased-out-of-firefighting-foam-for-more-than-20-years/ 3M will pay up to $7.35 billion to settle lawsuits from as many as 120,000 people who say groundwater tainted by its “forever chemicals” made them sick, as Rebecca Boone reports for the Associated Press. The St. Paul, Minnesota-based manufacturer announced the deal on November 6, 2026, and will pay out over nine years — without admitting liability. Collagen supplements are not a wrinkle-reducing silver bullet, but they sure cost a lot New Scientist https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/11/06/collagen-supplements-are-not-a-wrinkle-reducing-silver-bullet-but-they-sure-cost-a-lot/ Collagen supplements won’t iron out your wrinkles, at least not in any way the evidence convincingly shows, as Alice Klein reports for New Scientist after digging into the research for a forthcoming book on the science of skin. How climate change is driving increased pesticide usage Yale Climate Connections https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/11/06/how-climate-change-is-driving-increased-pesticide-usage/ Climate change isn’t just stressing crops — it’s giving the insects that eat them a leg up. Warmer temperatures are expanding pests’ ranges, lengthening their breeding seasons and, in some cases, helping them shrug off the very pesticides meant to kill them, as Yale Climate Connections’ Sanket Jain reports.