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Depression experienced early in life may carry the risk for a surprising number of illnesses and premature death later in life. Medscape...

Mental health experts continue to push for early COVID vaccination for patients with serious mental illness, citing their increased vulnerab...

Race accounted for most of the change, as a diminishing proportion of black patients were hospitalized; now a greater percentage of younger...

Pregnant women who used cannabis to alleviate depressive symptoms while enrolled in a treatment program for opioid use disorder (OUD) experi...

Spionimod, a second-generation MS drug, achieves clinically meaningful improvement in cognitive processing speed for patients with advanced...

Lung cancer now ranks second behind breast cancer in terms of new cancer cases but remains the leading overall cause of cancer mortality....

The approach, which is based on application programming interfaces, would initially apply only to Medicaid managed care plans and plans on t...

Most FDA advisers agreed data from TOPCAT were flawed but could support a new indication for the decades-old generic drug. Medscape Medic...

Doctor dramas have returned to television at a peak in the pandemic. From public messaging to portraying the struggles of medical profession...

If initial success continues and more vaccines gain FDA emergency approval, there could be a surplus in US vaccine supplies by next summer,...

Two vaccines could be approved for use in the United States by the end of next week, and a third is coming soon. Here's a closer look at all...

Physicians should find out why patients want to try something different. The approved medication may not be working or they may feel lack of...

Why REDUCE-IT and JELIS, but not OMEMI, STRENGTH, ASCEND, or OMEGA? Why did CV risk fall in patients taking marine-oil-derived omega-3 polyu...

Safety and quality watchdog group recognizes hospital care teams and individuals who went the extra mile for patients. Medscape Medical...

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging Alabama's mandatory face mask mandate, which opponents claimed is unconstitutional....

The FDA issued a staff report on Tuesday that recommends monitoring people who take the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for potential c...

The oral AKT inhibitor ipatasertib does not seem to offer any clinical benefit when added to paclitaxel for women with gene-altered advanced...

Recently updated CDC guidance allows that in some situations, contact tracing exposures to SARS-CoV-2 among healthcare workers 'may not be p...

The measure passed 10-1, with Board President Norman Yee the only no vote. Associated Press

Hospitals are filling up so fast in California that officials are rolling out mobile field facilities and scrambling to hire more doctors an...

The FDA has received over 200 medical device reports regarding the Penumbra JET 7 Xtra Flex catheter, including reports of deaths, serious i...

A proposal to reduce Medicare Part B reimbursement for 50 physician-administered products is being challenged in court hearings over the nex...

The onset of hypertension in middle age is associated with declining memory, and onset at later ages is associated with decreases in both me...

After last week's ever-so-slightly positive news, the COVID-19 numbers in children have gone back to their old ways. Medscape Medical New...

Patients with isolated severe TBI often receive tranexamic acid before hospitalization to mitigate bleeding risk, but new results suggest th...