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FEMA opened its first COVID-19 mass vaccination sites Tuesday, setting up in Los Angeles and Oakland as part of an effort by the Biden admin...

The newly approved labeling for sacubitril/valsartan (Entresto) is simply for "chronic heart failure" but almost teasingly adds, "the benefi...

Many public health organizations recommend that people wear masks in public settings to reduce the spread of COVID-19. However, one study fo...

Prompt initiation of prophylactic anticoagulation in COVID patients newly admitted to the hospital is better than no treatment in reducing 3...

Many healthcare workers who try to volunteer as vaccinators run into an ad hoc system just as chaotic as the rollout of the vaccines. Med...

Rebecca Benson felt her tires lose their grip on the black ice on the bridge and saw the wall of crashed vehicles in front of her. Medsc...

The use of a new rapid tapering regimen resulted in a lower cumulative dose of prednisone with similar clinical outcomes in a new randomized...

Daily counts fell under 100,000 last week and continue to drop, with 55,000 reported on Monday, according to data from the COVID Tracking Pr...

The balloon catheter uses acoustic energy to break up heavily calcified coronary lesions and facilitate stent delivery and expansion. FDA...

As of March 15, healthcare providers can use their 'clinical judgment' to vaccinate those with conditions that could lead to death or severe...

Critical care staff are less likely to acquire COVID-19 infection from ICU patients than they are from areas away from the bedside, a new st...

Women with psoriasis can expect healthy pregnancy outcomes at a rate similar to that of the general population, according to one of the larg...

One patient threatened to shoot Terry Hunt, MD, if physical therapy didn't relieve his pain as effectively as opioids did. Associated Pre...

A safety review found no evidence of acute kidney injury with remdesivir; the committee will look into cases of sinus bradycardia in patient...

At Oxford and three partner sites in London, Southampton, and Bristol, the phase 2 clinical trial will test whether kids and teens have a go...

Patients on dialysis are on par with long-term care residents in terms of risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 death, and should there...

Many medical practices turned to telemedicine when the pandemic shut down the economy last spring, but what do dermatology patients think ab...

The news of restricted first doses comes as California prepares to open two new large-scale mass vaccination sites Tuesday in Oakland and Ea...

As government scrutiny of hospital-physician transactions has heightened in recent years, more instances of improper payments have come to l...

It doesn't make sense that alcoholic drink labels don't provide calorie and standard serving information, just as food products do, says one...

A patient with classic Hodgkin lymphoma seemingly achieved a partial remission following COVID-19. Medscape Medical News

The genomic landscape of circulating tumor DNA was comparable to the landscape of tissue biopsies in a large study of patients with metastat...

Nivolumab is efficacious and well tolerated when used as adjuvant therapy in patients who have undergone radical surgery for high-risk, musc...

The clinical cell-cycle risk score can identify patients with intermediate- and high-risk localized prostate cancer who could potentially fo...

Only half the women with ER+ breast cancer who get endocrine therapy respond. Could functional tests and a PET scan identify those women?...