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It also had additional repercussions within the membership.

Diabetes researcher Mark Atkinson, the chair of the conference scientific sessions, and endocrinologist Jennifer Green, the ADA's president-elect, both resigned in the immediate wake of the controversy in New Orleans on June 5th, as first reported by MedPage Today.

While event organizers can't present every disruption, it's worth reviewing some tactics that will help shape where and when this sort of thing can happen at an event.

For organizations being impacted by some of the sweeping changes in government, this can be especially timely.

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I'll kick off today's episode with details on why a physician group is suing the US government over the most recent dietary guidelines.

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With only a few weeks left before people start voting in the midterms, MedPage Today has been looking at healthcare professionals who are running for federal and statewide offices.

Today, Washington editor Joyce Frieden tells us about her interview with Annie Andrews, a pediatric hospitalist who is the Democratic candidate in the race to succeed the late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.

All but two members of PCAC were appointed while Trump was in office.

Uh, via MedPage Today, a consumer watchdog group is demanding that the HHS Office of Inspector General look into potential conflicts of interest among members of the FDA advisory committee that recommended the six peptides be added to the list of substances that can be compounded, despite a lack of evidence of their efficacy.

Several members of the 2026 Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee appear to have had disqualifying financial interests in the pharmaceutical and peptide industries at the time of the July meeting.

They wrote last week in a letter to HHS Inspector General T.