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Regular caffeine consumption appears to be tied to decreased gray matter volume, but only temporarily. Medscape Medical News

A new report from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) advises that decriminalising drug possession. Medscape News UK

Will primary care physicians face additional competition as insurers promote a new kind of plan based on telehealth? The trend raises questi...

Now considered a landmark trial, a seemingly modest study surprisingly improved overall survival in a rare and incurable blood cancer. Me...

New research estimates that 60% of the US population now lives with one or more of these disorders ― a much greater rate than was previously...

Houston is the first city in the United States to report all the major variants, a finding that comes the same day governor lifts state's ma...

Texas is lifting its mask mandate, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday, making it the largest state to end an order intended to prevent the spread...

The incidence was similar to that seen after transcatheter aortic valve replacement and, likewise, associated with worse outcomes in a cohor...

President Biden announced the accelerated schedule after a new deal with Merck will help Johnson & Johnson ramp up production of their recen...

CDC's ACIP panel underscores challenges of managing a limited supply of COVID-19 shots amid rising concern about viral variants. Medscape...

Opt-out programs that allow residents to reject wellness support, rather than seek it out, are seeing results. Medscape Medical News

Although the experiments so far are only in mice, they hold promise for people who have these bothersome and sometimes painful infections ov...

A new report by the Human Rights Center identified more than 1100 threats or acts of violence against health care workers and facilities las...

The supplement market, valued at $48 billion in 2019, is projected to grow to $58 billion this year, but misleading claims take advantage of...

The UK has updated its code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care staff, to align with the World Health Or...

Twitter says it will start attaching warning labels to tweets that contain misleading information about the coronavirus vaccine and institut...

Neoadjuvant chemoradiation plus esophagectomy can be performed safely in well-selected older patients with locally advanced esophageal or es...

One Merck facility will make the actual vaccine and the other Merck facility will provide "fill-finish" services, in which the vaccine is pl...

More recent studies suggest that "girls with greater childhood adiposity have earlier thelarche and progress through puberty at a faster rat...

Getting the recommended amount of exercise can help reduce migraine days and mi-graine triggers such as stress, depression, and sleep proble...

The committee opinion provides guidance for ob-gyns. on topics including inclusivity, routine screening, fertility and reproductive issues,...

Remote interventions using an internet-based app and telephone outreach to engage patients with osteoarthritis to self-manage their disease...

Major ECG abnormalities were found in 13% of 8000 unselected patients with type 2 diabetes in a Dutch cohort. Hypertension, male sex, older...

Many nursing home residents with diabetes may be treated to intensive glycemic targets even though such aggressive management may have limit...

"Truthfully, a lot of people don't know what they're doing," lead author Derek Jones, MD, of Skin Care and Laser Physicians of Beverly Hills...