TORONTO -- People who grew up in U.S. areas with high atmospheric lead levels were about 20% more likely to report memory problems 50 years later, a study of more than 600,000 older adults showed.

Nobody knew anything." Worse still, she added, they "really didn't want to hear about it." Many clinicians remain unaware of ...

Each person has valuable and unique lived experiences to contribute to the design process. They can identify pain points in ...

People's brains aged faster during the COVID-19 pandemic whether they were infected or not, serial imaging data from the U.K. Biobank suggested. Among nearly 1,000 adults, MRIs after the pandemic ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to fire all the members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and replace them with members of his own ...

When glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1s) like semaglutide (Wegovy) and liraglutide (Saxenda) were approved for ...

About one in five women may discontinue IUD use within a year, often due to increased bleeding and cramping. A smaller IUD ...

As hospitals continue to grapple with long wait times in emergency departments (EDs), some patient advocates have pushed for "safe staffing committees" to deal with the problem, but the idea has ...

According to Varma, African Americans have a high rate of visual impairment and are especially likely to develop open-angle ...

As researchers keep looking for ways to deescalate treatment in HER2-positive breast cancer, a trial from China looked at a chemotherapy-free regimen with endocrine therapy, a CDK4/6 inhibitor, and ...

Medicaid and other government health insurance programs, in particular, have proved to be a powerful economic backstop for ...