— Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today's reporters
October 25, 2026 • 2 min read
"The cat is out of the bag." -- Adam Waickman, PhD, of SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, discussing the large dengue outbreaksopens in a new tab or window in Florida and warning of further spread across the U.S.
"It's an open question, and it's a really interesting one." -- Christina Chambers, PhD, MPH, of the University of California San Diego, on whether early-life exposure to dupilumab (Dupixent)opens in a new tab or window could lower a child's long-term risk of atopic conditions, amid data showing exposure in pregnancy appeared safe.
"It is a reality in the MS field that this does happen." -- Marisa McGinley, DO, of the Cleveland Clinic, discussing actress Christina Applegate's incorrect multiple sclerosis diagnosisopens in a new tab or window.
"Everyone just attributed it to straightforward constipation without stopping to think, why? Is there something else going on?" -- Lynn Sinitsky, MBBS, of the West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in England, on the exceptionally rare case of a misdiagnosed infant who was later found to have a second colonopens in a new tab or window.
"This is good news for women." -- JoAnn Manson, MD, MPH, DrPH, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, on a meta-analysis showing that non-hormonal menopause drugs can ease sleep disturbancesopens in a new tab or window.
"Medicine is very good at recording what is wrong with a patient; we need to be just as good at preserving what matters to them." -- Angelo Volandes, MD, MPH, of Dartmouth Health in Lebanon, New Hampshire, who presented research on a video decision support toolopens in a new tab or window that boosted advance care planning documentation in patients nearing kidney failure.
"That gives us and other researchers super-interesting biological questions to pursue." -- Ellen Bradley, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, on a small trial that linked the psychedelic psilocybinopens in a new tab or window with reduced markers of systemic inflammation and mitochondrial stress in patients with Parkinson's disease.