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More than 11,800 COVID deaths were reported last week, passing heart disease at 10,700 deaths, lung/tracheal cancer at nearly 4000 deaths, C...

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate the California attorney general and former Congress member as his secretary for the US Department of...

Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) may explain 3% of all sudden deaths in children – a prevalence rate that is at least three times...

"If we don't act now, we'll continue to see our death rate climb, more lives lost," Newsom said. Associated Press

During the pandemic, some medical groups are extending memberships, waiving facility or conference registration fees, or forgoing cost-of-li...

A nurse researcher experienced distressing symptoms when she received the COVID-19 vaccine in a trial. She urges training on answering patie...

Small RCT will look at whether metformin has an impact on COVID-19, starting with inflammatory markers and viral load, but hoping to expand...

"People talk about the anti-vaccine people being able to kind of squelch uptake. I don't see that happening," said Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccino...

Rudy Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City and President Donald Trump's lawyer, tested positive for the coronavirus, Trump posted on Twi...

In late September, Moscow municipal official Sergei Martyanov sent a series of text messages to his subordinates: 'Colleagues!!!... What is...

Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a 'stampede for vaccines' to...

Drug industry trade groups filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration on Friday challenging new US rules to lower drug prices, pote...

Tranexamic acid prophylaxis did not reduce bleeding among patients with hematologic malignancies and severe thrombocytopenia and may do more...

By targeting providers with attacks that scramble and lock up data until victims pay a ransom, hackers can demand thousands or millions of d...

Solomon Carter Fuller's hard-fought path to the pantheon of neurology and psychiatry took him from Liberia, to the labs of Dr Alois Alzheime...

Transplants offer a chance for a cure in myelodysplastic syndrome, and are often offered to younger patients; new results show they increase...

When the lone emergency room doctor in a Colorado town of 900 got sick with COVID, the repercussions were felt throughout the region. Kai...

Highest number of applicants ever are matched to subspecialty training positions, as number of US MD and international grads both rise. M...

The FDA reminds clinicians about the need for "at least yearly, lifelong follow-up" to monitor for endoleaks in patients with any type of En...

Nearly 3 in 4 infection prevention experts say facilities remain in crisis mode, with shortages of respirators, masks, face shields, and oth...

President-elect Joe Biden plans to ask all Americans to mask up 'not forever' but just for 100 days to help get the virus under control in t...

'We would not recommend initiating treatment with SGLT2 inhibitor in eGFR < 30 until results of the other pending trials are available,' but...

States drafted plans Thursday for who will go to the front of the line when the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine become available later this...

Researchers urge investments in substance use treatment, harm reduction, and the structural drivers of overdose as core elements of the COVI...

There is "compelling" evidence of the harmful effects of alcohol on the brain. The greatest risk occurs during three periods of life that ar...