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The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared a new over-the-counter (OTC) device designed to protect children aged 13 years and older fro...

In a study, insulin retained its potency in conditions in which the temperature oscillated between 25 and 37 degrees Celsius (77 to 98.6 Fah...

Deaths and confirmed coronavirus cases have dropped sharply in US nursing homes ― a category of all long-term care facilities ― since the va...

As healthcare workers in the US began lining up for their first coronavirus vaccines on December 14, Los Angeles nursing assistant Esmeralda...

Rheumatologists can look forward to the likely regulatory approval of the oral Janus kinase inhibitors tofacitinib and upadacitinib for the...

Patients taking methotrexate for psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis were at a higher risk of developing liver disease than were patients with...

"The treatment of molluscum is still an unmet need," Leon H. Kircik, MD, clinical professor of dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine a...

In committee hearing, the surgeon general and assistant health secretary nominees vow to attack COVID-19, as well as mental health and subst...

Google supplied funds and expertise to build the repository; it's unclear how the international database will be financed in the long term....

The authors of a new study are calling for stronger public health lifestyle advice to minimize the risk for COVID-19 hospitalization. Med...

Gyms can be hot spots for COVID-19 outbreaks if people don't wear face masks, even if they follow social distancing guidelines, according to...

The Ad Council and COVID Collaborative launched a campaign to encourage Americans to get a COVID vaccine when one is available for them, mar...

Experts say that measures put in place to fend off the coronavirus -- mask wearing, social distancing, and virtual schooling -- were a big f...

Two research teams have identified a new coronavirus variant in New York City and across the Northeast that could evade natural immune respo...

Nurse Molly Longbrake and her team of healthcare providers in South Dakota have administered 4000 doses and plan to vaccinate about 12,000 p...

Researchers have developed a proprietary computer adaptive screening tool that may help emergency departments more accurately predict suicid...

Use of prophylactic negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) may not be appropriate in surgical cases where women undergo a laparotomy for pre...

Treatment with the hormone, at therapeutic doses, did not impact vascular endothelial function, nor was it additive to exercise in a randomi...

Glucose levels outside of 70-160 mg/dL and glycemic variability measured with intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitoring were iden...

Posttraumatic stress disorders may occur in as many as one third of patients who recover from severe COVID-19 infection, new research sugges...

Some women have experienced axillary node swelling after receiving the Pzifer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. The swelling mimics sy...

Many cancer drugs come to market in the US at unaffordable prices and uncertainty about benefits and harms; their uptake is often delayed el...

Neither committee has formally voted on Becerra, who also has to receive 51 votes in the full Senate. Medscape Medical News

The results provide some reassurance that use of bridging thrombolysis before endovascular therapy will not put clots out of reach in patien...

FDA placed a clinical hold on two gene therapy clinical trials for sickle cell disease after two patients developed blood diseases. Medsc...