The FDA launched a 'rumor control' hub May 16 aimed at combating widespread misinformation about vaccines, medicine, science and health trends.
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Do you have access to a gun? Do you live with anyone who has acces to a gun? Clinicians at the University of Michigan's psychiatric emergency department are asking these hard questions as part of an initiative to reduce gun…
This live episode from the Becker’s Hospital Review 13th Annual Meeting in Chicago features Dr. Stephen Parodi, Executive Vice President of the Permanente Federation and Associate Executive Director of the Permanente Medical Group. Here, he discusses the opportunities for care…
Weekly emergency department visits nationwide for mental health conditions and drug overdoses among adolescents, have fallen by 10 percent, but levels are still slightly increasing for adolescent female patients specifically, according to a May 12 report from the CDC.
In February, the CDC issued a warning against a brand of eyedrops linked to dozens of severe eye infections in the U.S. But the bottles were causing infections months before that.
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The CDC on May 11 released details about the nation's first two cases of a drug-resistant form of ringworm caused by an emerging pathogen known as Trichophyton indotineae.
The CDC is investigating new mpox cases, with some of the infections happening among vaccinated individuals, the agency said May 10.
The CDC published updated masking recommendations for healthcare facilities days before the nation's May 11 COVID-19 public health emergency expiration.
In the last decade, 152 million infants worldwide were born preterm — and while preterm birth rates are not changing, death rates from preterm birth complications are on the rise, according to a May 9 report from the World Health…
The bacteria that caused a massive infant formula shortage in 2022 may soon be added to a federal watch list of diseases, according to a May 9 report from NBC News affiliate WSMV.