A new US randomized trial has failed to show benefit of a 35-day course of oral anticoagulation with rivaroxaban for the prevention of thrombotic events in outpatients with symptomatic COVID-19. The PREVENT-HD trial was presented at the American Heart Association (AHA)…

An international team of scientists and surgeons, including researchers from the University of Sheffield, has, for the first time, validated safe surgical access to the central core of the human cochlea. The study was funded by Rinri Therapeutics, a biotechnology…

A person doesn’t have to pack on very many extra pounds before their risk of needing a knee replacement increases substantially, a new evidence review has found. Weight gain of just 11 pounds increases a woman’s odds of needing total…

New technology can trace which populations of breast cancer cells are responsible for the spread of the disease, and for the first time highlights how the location of cancer cells could be as important as mutations in tumour growth. The…

Scientists at Scripps Research have uncovered a critical feature that a promising new class of cancer drugs, known as CELMoDs, needs to be effective. CELMoDs are designed to attack cancer in a novel way, by binding to a regulatory protein…

The cyberattacks against healthcare provider organizations just keep coming and coming. Bad actors are after that juicy patient data, which is worth much more than just a simple credit card number. This is why healthcare CIOs, CISOs and other security…

Getting out into daylight first thing in the morning could help you keep your circadian rhythm in check during dark days.  We’re a sleep-deprived nation, so we need to cling on to as much shut-eye as we can get. As…

MYDAWA, the first online pharmacy in Kenya, has received $1.2 million in grant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop and evaluate innovative Post-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, delivery. The company says its new telehealth application enables end-to-end…

A study at the University of Jyväskylä found that men are biologically older than women. The observed sex difference is partially explained by men's more frequent smoking and larger body size. In the Western world, life expectancy rapidly increased in…

A collaborative study led by the University of Oxford as part of the UK’s 100,000 Genomes Project, published in Nature Genetics today, has defined five new subgroups of the most common type of blood cancer, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and…