FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, issued a statement March 14 about the agency's issuance of a notice aimed at lowering the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to minimally or nonaddictive levels.
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Healthcare officials at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine's specialty clinic in Livonia, Mich., expect to complete 50 to 60 vasectomies during the month of March, up from an average of 27 per month during the rest of the year, according to…
A study conducted by researchers in the United Kingdom showed the likelihood of urological cancer patients committing suicide is higher than for people without cancer.
African Americans face higher levels of air pollution as compared to the white population, and this may be the reason they are more susceptible to heart disease and death, according to a study published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.
The statistics on the sheer size of the Baby Boomer cohort and the stresses that it will generationally place on numerous disparate eco-systems are easy to find.
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According to the 2018 County Health Rankings report from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, health gaps exist not only by geographical location, but among racial and ethnic groups.
A study published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research investigated the link between smoking and hearing loss.
Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare deployed a mobile application called Twiage to connect emergency departments with first responders in the field.
Only a small portion of Americans who could benefit from taking a daily pill for HIV prevention filled prescriptions for the medication in 2015, according to a CDC analysis presented March 6 at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic…
Acting CDC Director Anne Schuchat, MD, on March 12 denied recent media reports suggesting the CDC epidemiologist who's been missing for a month was passed over for a promotion prior to his disappearance, according to a report from CBS News.