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“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver had a novel proposal for the Secret Service, which he thinks may have a file on him: Take him to a Broadway show and make sure it’s an aisle seat. In a segment on the president’s protectors Sunday, Oliver delved into the surprising fact that Secret Service agents sometimes entertain potential threats to keep them in sight during presidential visits. Oliver replayed 2018 documentary footage in which a special agent recounted how he tracked a man who once entered ex-President Ronald Reagan’s Bel Air, California, home. (One known trespasser served a two-year sentence for threatening Reagan’s life in 1990.)The agent recalled that when either President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney later came to Los Angeles, and the man was living in a halfway house, he and another agent would take him to dinner and a movie. “We would go make him happy while the president was in town to make sure we knew where he was and keep tabs on him,” he said. That got Oliver thinking. “Given just how much shit I talk about our current president, I’m guessing there’s a non-zero chance the Secret Service has a file on me,” he said.

Among cancer patients, the high financial cost of cancer care is a prevalent problem. This financial burden is also associated with potentially harmful behavioral strategies that patients might use to cope with costs, such as delaying or forgoing treatment and skipping medications. Collectively, researchers refer to this impact as financial toxicity.

Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) could transform diabetes management for millions of Americans with type 2 diabetes who don't take insulin, according to findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The clinical trial found that adults using CGMs spent approximately five additional hours each day within their target blood sugar range compared with those receiving routine care. Nearly twice as many CGM users also achieved an A1c level below 7%, a common treatment goal for people with diabetes.

Patients who wore noise-canceling headphones during minimally invasive gynecological surgery were significantly less likely to experience postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), suggest findings from a randomized clinical trial presented at the Anesthesiology 2026 annual meeting.