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Inappropriate first-line opioid use was found in more than 40% of patients, dropping over time but without a concurrent rise in use of recom...

Patients as young as 40 with type 2 diabetes have a markedly increased risk of dying from COVID-19, compared with those without diabetes, ma...

The company has launched its Intelligent Vaccine Impact software. Google and other tech companies, however, may be missing essential pieces...

The FDA has approved trilaciclib (Cosela), a first-in-class drug given before chemotherapy to protect against chemo-induced bone marrow supp...

Fed up with a lack of federal action to lower prescription drug costs, state legislators around the country are pushing bills to penalize dr...

Care by locum tenens hospitalists, often thought to be an expensive solution to staffing shortages, may have advantages in patient outcomes...

The NIH and FDA reached out to Maryland state officials to try to secure doses of vaccines for employees considered to be at higher-than-ave...

President Joe Biden says he wants most K–12 students back in the classroom in the first 100 days of his administration, giving school admini...

COVID caseloads are higher, and doctors are burned out after a year of fighting the pandemic. Are med schools planning to send in the cavalr...

The impact of structural racism needs to be considered in health-disparities research, say the editors of Circulation: Cardiovascular Qualit...

The New York Times said Trump had lower blood oxygen levels than his doctor reported, that X-rays found lung infiltrates, and that officials...

It seems unfathomable that Los Angeles would be forced to temporarily close its largest vaccination site at Dodger Stadium and four other lo...

Patients who received intensive lifestyle training in the primary care setting experienced improvement in several indicators of cardiometabo...

With the exception of clozapine, the selection of an antipsychotic medication for acute treatment is driven by side effects. Medscape Med...

The incidence of metastatic prostate cancers at diagnosis increased as prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screenings across U.S. states decreas...

Adding apalutamide to standard care significantly slows progression of chemotherapy-naive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, a...

A lack of federal tracking means no one knows how many people in disability group housing have fallen ill or died from the virus. Some state...

Combining the tyrosine kinase inhibitor saracatinib with docetaxel does not benefit patients with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate...

Rates vary around the US, but nearly 4 in 10 cancer deaths are attributable to cigarette smoking in parts of the South and Appalachia. Me...

In those 270 days, the paper, reporting findings that were literally directionally incorrect, was freely available for download for all thos...

Physicians too often fail to recognize cluster headache, and it is among the most severe and debilitating headache types. Medscape Medica...

The study was prompted by the fact that older adults are greatly underrepresented in clinical trials of approved inflammatory bowel disease...

Developmental outcomes in the first 2 years of life improved in children whose mothers received the revised Special Supplemental Nutrition P...

'Going forward...[kidney] transplant centers using steroids should justify why they are using [them], given that there is no evidence of imp...

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has endorsed guidelines on radiation therapy for patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC...