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As people in lockdown spend more time staring at laptops and other digital screens, they're ordering more blue light glasses, despite a lack...

The rapid expansion of COVID-19 vaccinations to senior citizens across the U.S. has led to bottlenecks, system crashes and hard feelings in...

The device, which is like a smartphone in the eye, took home an award at the year's biggest tech conference, but it's not quite ready for pr...

US President-elect Joe Biden has chosen David Kessler, the ex-head of the FDA, to help lead the COVID-19 vaccine push, his transition team s...

Since Cleavon Gilman, MD, lost his job for sharing concerns about the pandemic, he has talked with President-elect Joe Biden, got an offer f...

In Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina, less than 2% of the population had received its first dose of a vaccine at the start o...

For the first time, transmission of cancer via the birth canal has been documented: the mothers had cervical cancer, the infants later devel...

The FDA says data from two pivotal trials can be used to help support a new drug application for the dual SGLT1/2 inhibitor, according to a...

HHS intends to expand use of buprenorphine in treatment for opioid use disorder by easing a requirement that has often been cited as an 'adm...

Dr Stephanie Flores-Pollack's journey into dermatology as an underrepresented-in-medicine physician-in-training offers a window into a movem...

Depression and tobacco use in childhood significantly increased the risk for opioid use in young adults, according to data from a prospectiv...

Data from Black patients documents that use of the race coefficient for calculating eGFR systematically excludes more than a third from kidn...

The short shelf life raises the stakes by forcing clinicians to anticipate the exact number of doses they'll need each day. If they don't ge...

Moderna probably will not have clinical trial results anytime soon on how its COVID-19 vaccine affects children and adolescents, according t...

Patients with asthma–chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap (ACO) experienced a higher burden of disease than patients with either as...

In an effort to counteract alarming trends in rising hepatitis infections, the HHS has developed and released its Viral Hepatitis National S...

A new study links high childhood insulin levels to early adult psychosis and elevated childhood BMI to early adult depression, suggesting a...

High levels of physical activity during middle age are associated with greater white matter integrity and fewer lacunar strokes in later lif...

A new study shows that transfusions from recovered COVID-19 patients that contained high antibody levels reduced the number of deaths among...

Brazilian dentists propose a protocol for toothbrush disinfection as a measure to limit SARS-CoV-2 transmission in communal spaces. Medsc...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is supporting three infusion sites but gave no indication it would offer any other assistance...

Location and length of thrombus can identify those at highest risk for early neurologic deterioration, flagging those who may be the best ca...

Pending phase 3 results and emergency use approval, the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine could significantly boost availability of vaccine...

With tourism and other economic sectors largely shuttered by the pandemic, countries are eagerly looking at alternatives to travel restricti...

"Just seeing some of the things that I've had to see, I am very thankful. I had been praying for something to help me with this situation. I...