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Cases of poisoning -- intentional and unintentional -- from ingestion of alcohol-based hand sanitizer have soared during the COVID-19 pandem...

Medicare stuck with a plan to raise payments for specialties that focus on helping patients manage chronic conditions. The increases will be...

Records from six EDs suggest that about a third of ulna fractures in women may be related to intimate-partner violence, but many of those wo...

Citing new evidence and an acceptable risk, CDC officials announced two options for people to quarantine for less time after COVID-19 exposu...

Higher levels of air pollution were associated with an increased risk for amyloid-beta pathology in a new study of older adults with cogniti...

The news on children and COVID-19 for Thanksgiving week does not provide a lot of room for thankfulness. Medscape Medical News

Initial doses of a coronavirus vaccine could be sent out as early as mid-December, Vice President Mike Pence told governors during a call on...

Nurses at both hospitals are being forced to reuse N95 respirator masks as many as 20 times. That is far beyond the maximum of five times re...

'But here's the kicker,' said Dr Alex Jahangir. 'They're not getting infected in the hospitals. In fact, hospitals for the most part are fai...

The agency will next decide the order for who receives the vaccination, with priority going to "care home residents, health and care staff,...

The study found a drop in new cases in all adult age ranges, including older adults. However, more infections were found in school-aged chil...

For many clinicians, the pandemic has forced difficult conversations about the limits of medical tests. It has also revealed the catastrophi...

When a patient with cancer develops venous thromboembolism despite anticoagulation, how to help them comes down to clinical judgment, accord...

Neumara Medical's SugarBEAT device plus digital coaching aims to reverse, or at least better manage, type 2 diabetes and should be available...

A new diagnostic agent, Gallium 68 PSMA-11, has been approved for institutional use in the PET imaging of PSMA-positive lesions in men with...

An AHA scientific statement aims to raise awareness of healthcare providers and women about the menopause transition as a time of increasing...

The recommendation from the CDC's vaccine advisory committee aims to preserve healthcare capacity and reduce illness and death among the mos...

Mikhail Varshavski, aka "Dr Mike," apologized after he was seen without a mask amid partiers on a crowded boat deck. Then a nurse bragged ab...

If you're looking for ways to boost revenue and patient compliance to recommended treatment intervals for aesthetic procedures, consider off...

"The 6-week posthysterectomy pelvic examination in asymptomatic women may not be necessary, as it neither detected cuff dehiscence nor negat...

Yana B. Aznaurova, MD, and colleagues identified and validated a genetic biomarker based on differences in the endometrium of women with and...

Within a multidrug therapeutic regimen to control acne in patients with relatively dark skin, chemical peels should be considered to reduce...

An international panel has developed the first set of recommendations for use of ketogenic diets in adults with epilepsy. Medscape Medic...

Weary of Washington's restrictions, thousands of residents made the easy drive over the border to vacation, shop and dine in Idaho. ProPu...

A staggering rise in coronavirus cases could overwhelm California's health system within weeks and "drastic" action such as a widespread sta...