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Operation Warp Speed officials said they are holding 3.4 million doses in reserve. Medscape Medical News

The new indication for liraglutide for weight loss in adolescents with obesity was welcomed as a milestone. FDA Approvals

With COVID-19 surging across the country, Medscape asked three prominent public health figures to give us their best advice about immediate...

Ahead of a vote on the merits of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, FDA advisers heard experts discuss follow-up and monitoring of the product if it...

A public–private partnership, led by mental health advocate Patrick Kennedy and the head of the NIMH, want urgent action to address the wave...

For almost a decade, the treasure inspired hundreds of thousands of people around the world to search for it. A med student finally found th...

More than 1 in 8 women who undergo mastectomy with reconstruction for breast cancer treatment or prophylaxis become persistent users of cont...

The CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib provides no significant benefit in patients with HR+, HER2-negative primary breast cancer, according to fir...

Data from two prospective cohort studies of the Danish general population show that low plasma transthyretin concentrations were associated...

The controversy that upended peripheral interventions last year may never go away entirely, but the latest study to defend the devices' safe...

Women who more closely followed a diabetes risk-reduction diet before and after a diagnosis of breast cancer had lower risks for breast canc...

A new review confirms that patients with cancer are more at risk for COVID-19 and worse outcomes, but it also shows that patients with some...

The dialysis industry has poured $233 million into California campaigns, establishing its leading companies as a formidable political force...

HHS officials deny their proposal was aimed at the Biden administration. Brian Harrison, chief of staff at the department, said he first sou...

The US reported more than 3080 COVID-19 deaths Wednesday, marking the highest day so far in the pandemic and passing the number of deaths re...

The changes clarify the definition of atrial fibrillation and separate CHA2DS2-VASc risk score treatment thresholds for men and women; both...

The FDA issued an emergency use authorization on Wednesday for the first nonprescription, at-home COVID-19 test, which allows users to swab...

Arguments over mask requirements and other restrictions have turned ugly in recent days as the deadly coronavirus surge across the U.S. engu...

Extended follow-up from monarchE shows ongoing event-free survival benefits with abemaciclib + endocrine therapy in high-risk early breast c...

State COVID-19 databases are beginning to show an uptick in coronavirus cases related to Thanksgiving travel and gatherings, according to Th...

Higher rates of obesity and comorbidities in Black women with early breast cancer may explain the differences in survival, and need to be ad...

Several factors present in early adolescence may help predict eating disorders, which would create opportunities for earlier intervention an...

Recreational marijuana may face resistance from GOP-dominated state governments despite being voted into law in Montana, South Dakota and Ar...

Response rates were high without dose-limiting toxicities in a small phase 1 study that evaluated the addition of propranolol to pembrolizum...

Lower doses of many cancer drugs might work just as well, with fewer side effects and big savings, some oncologists say. Undark