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In patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes, bariatric surgery is more likely to produce lasting remission among individuals with shorter d...

Air pollution contributed to the death of a London schoolgirl, a coroner ruled on Wednesday in a landmark case that could push Britain to ge...

Many types of plastics pose an unrecognized threat to human health by leaching endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and a new report from the End...

A small group of patients with SLE who have high costs and needs and frequent hospitalizations can be identified through a shared set of soc...

The updated guidelines address six priority topics but notably exclude any recommendations for the use of fast-emerging biological therapy....

But the decline in admissions and in observation and ED visits is nowhere near as large as last spring; some nonurgent non-COVID patients ar...

Following regulatory authorizations, healthcare workers are starting to get COVID-19 vaccines. Medscape Reader Polls

The advisors overwhelmingly favored an expanded indication, which they then narrowed to what guidelines call 'mid-range LVEF.' But there was...

The brothers developed symptoms simultaneously and received the same treatments, but only one became critically ill. Medscape Medical Ne...

"There's a vacuum of information, and it's been filled for the last 6, 8, 9 months with misinformation -- just massive amounts -- to the poi...

Dermatologists are more likely than are nondermatologists to follow practice guidelines when prescribing antihistamines to treat pruritus as...

Judicious use of stimulants may help patients with ADHD and comorbid substance use disorder stay in addiction treatment programs, new resear...

Differences in gene expression between the skin and synovial tissues of people with psoriatic arthritis could explain why treatments targeti...

Most in the first quarter will stay virtual, but some are returning to in-person meetings or a hybrid. Organizers say in-person meetings are...

More than 200 hospitals are using VR. Patients can float in outer space, swim with dolphins, or learn breathing techniques to manage pain or...

Across the US, state and local public health officials have found themselves at the center of a political storm as they combat the worst pan...

Public health officials and community leaders who are concerned about COVID-19 vaccine skepticism are speaking up and trying to build trust,...

Psychiatric diagnosis has a long and complicated past, and hopefully a clearer, more scientific future. Medscape Medical News

The type of chemotherapy regimen accompanying pembrolizumab does not appear to affect outcomes in women with untreated advanced triple negat...

The CDC has released a template for health care facilities to create orange-and-white stickers and buttons that say, "I got my COVID-19 vacc...

The FDA briefing ahead of Thursday's advisory committee meeting indicates that Moderna's vaccine will be judged safe and effective enough fo...

The Ellume COVID-19 Home Test is a rapid antigen test that detects fragments of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from a nasal swab sample taken from any...

Although most pediatricians believe the eventual vaccination of children will be crucial to subduing the COVID-19 virus, they're split on ho...

Individuals who have experienced sexual trauma have more than a tenfold increased risk of developing psychogenic nonepileptic seizures and a...

The beneficial effects of sacubitril/valsartan on reverse cardiac remodeling in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction ex...