U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020, according to a government report being released Wednesday. In the first two […]

The EU’s drug regulator is on Thursday expected to authorize the first COVID-19 vaccines for the Omicron variant, although they do not target the latest strains. The adapted vaccines made […]

In a recent case report posted to the Research Square* preprint server, scientists showed that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection provokes immunoglobulin A (IgA)-associated vasculitis (IgAV). Study: Infection […]

In June of 2022, the Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of coronavirus vaccines for children under five. Apprehension was to be expected. After all, four in 10 parents […]

A UC Davis Health study finds that the antiviral tecovirimat appears to be safe and effective for the treatment of monkeypox symptoms and skin lesions. The study is one of […]

Pesticides are abundantly used throughout the world, both in farming practices and domestically. Yet, despite their widespread use, there is little evidence on how pesticides affect the development of children […]

The eHealth-based Bavarian Alternative Detection of Atrial Fibrillation (eBRAVE-AF) trial asked older adult members of one German health insurer to use a smartphone app that measured pulse irregularities using the […]

Medicaid patients admitted to hospitals with a larger proportion of private payers received more diagnoses on Medicaid insurance claims than those in hospitals with a lower proportion of private payers, […]

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers pursued two monkeypox virus (MPXV) immune targets, A35R and H3L, that could be deployed in a serological assay to […]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The number of people living with type 1 diabetes worldwide is expected to double by 2040, with most new cases among adults living in low- and middle-income countries, […]