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Life expectancy in the US fell by a year in the first half of 2020, the biggest decline since World War 2, and stood at the lowest levels si...

Patients selected for carotid revascularization who have a contralateral carotid occlusion are still best triaged toward stenting rather tha...

New COVID-19 cases in children continue to drop each week, but the total number of cases has now surpassed 3 million since the start of the...

Near-infrared hyperspectral imaging combined with machine learning may hold promise for identifying deep-tissue gastrointestinal stromal tum...

Data from two major US epidemiology studies, MESA and NHANES, provide new evidence that obesity is the attributable cause for about 40% of p...

Assessment of position and posture by a physical therapist can help reduce and prevent injury in endoscopists, based on data from a pilot st...

Around a fifth of patients with diabetes hospitalized with COVID-19 infection will die within a month, although around half will be discharg...

Patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) may require prolonged treatment with multiple lines of therapy, said a hematologist a...

Cow's milk is the leading cause of fatal anaphylaxis among children, new data show. Medscape Medical News

The specialty software is used for outreach, screening, scheduling, vaccination status, decision support, and reporting to public health aut...

Rush Limbaugh, for decades a popular, controversial, and influential talk radio host and conservative commentator, died Wednesday, according...

A cohort study reveals optimal timing for antibody testing after a positive PCR SARS-CoV-2 result and compares sensitivity by patient age, s...

The global recall follows reports of stent fractures -- including one death -- among patients who participated in a company-sponsored trial....

The new Salmonella Typhi strain is related to one in Pakistan and has infected at least 71 people in the US. Medscape Medical News

Burned by the offer of a special issue, Neuroscience Letters retracted four papers after determining that the guest editors of the supplemen...

'To our knowledge, this is the first study to bridge this knowledge gap by presenting 'real-world' data on the safety and efficacy of ICI on...

Health officials in Texas scrambled to give thousands of COVID-19 vaccines on Monday after harsh winter weather knocked out the power for de...

The government has increased the number of doses delivered weekly by 57% since Joe Biden became president on Jan. 20. Last week, about 11 mi...

The researchers say that even though the CDC has acknowledged the virus can spread through tiny airborne particles, it needs to take "strong...

Under legislation currently advancing in Congress, US scientists would gain vastly expanded capabilities to identify potentially deadlier co...

Bernard Lown, MD, a Massachusetts cardiologist who invented the first reliable heart defibrillator and later cofounded an anti-nuclear war g...

With propensity score matching and inclusion of nonhospitalized primary care patients, metformin use did not influence COVID-19 susceptibili...

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and seven other organizations are lobbying Congress to add a warning about cancer risk to a...

Cabozantinib outperforms the current standard of care for renal cell carcinoma (RCC), according to results from the Southwest Oncology Group...

Prestige Ameritech can churn out 1 million masks every 4 days but doesn't have orders for nearly that many. So, they recently got approval f...