An international consortium found a remarkable global spread of strains of a multi-resistant bacterium that can cause severe infections—Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. The study, published under the supervision of the Research ...
May 14, 2020
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Eight times as many babies were born with syphilis in Colorado in 2022 as in 2017, and while the numbers are still small, the public health community is racing to get the disease under control.
May 8, 2023
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A mind-altering medication related to the club drug Special K won U.S. approval Tuesday for patients with hard-to-treat depression, the first in a series of long-overlooked substances being reconsidered for severe forms of ...
Mar 6, 2019
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Global opioid sales increased by an estimated 4% annually from 2015 to 2019, but massive disparities in access to essential pain relief medications persist between countries, finds a study led by UCL researchers.
Mar 30, 2022
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More than half a billion people are living with diabetes worldwide, affecting men, women, and children of all ages in every country, and that number is projected to more than double to 1.3 billion people in the next 30 years, ...
Jun 22, 2023
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Researchers led by a team at UT Southwestern Medical Center have created a statistical model to identify standards for typical, high, or low rates of bleeding after pediatric tonsillectomies. The findings, published in JAMA ...
Mar 31, 2023
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Despite large declines since 1990 in child deaths from pneumonia and the flu, these and other lower respiratory infections (LRIs) remain a leading killer of children under age 5.
Oct 30, 2019
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During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians across Mayo Clinic transitioned to virtual modes of care to continue to treat patients safely—resulting in an increase of over 10,000% in video telemedicine visits ...
Dec 2, 2022
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The abortion landscape has changed in the United States since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. A leaked draft of a Supreme Court decision suggests a majority of justices support throwing out that ruling, ...
May 3, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Deaths from drugs, alcohol and suicide in the United States hit an all-time high in 2017—more than 150,000 in all.
Mar 5, 2019
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