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Pretty sure you have COVID, but unsure about what you need to do next? A new U.S. federal website can now direct you to locations in your community where you can pick up a free prescription for lifesaving antiviral COVID…

A recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server assessed the impact of prior severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccination on the human immune response against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infection. Various studies have reported lower susceptibility of the SARS-CoV-2…

Wylie James Prescott, 3, had to wait more than a year after his autism diagnosis to begin behavioral therapy, even though research shows early treatment of autism can be crucial for children’s long-term development. His mother, Brandie Kurtz, said his…

More than half of all people who recover from COVID-19 continue to experience lingering symptoms — known as ‘long COVID’ — 6 months later. A new observational study suggests that, compared with the original variant of SARS-CoV-2, the Alpha variant…

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For adults with type-2 diabetes not well controlled with sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i), adding incretin-based drugs may be a better option than replacing SGLT2i with a new drug class, a retrospective study suggests. “Evidence is…

One of the easiest and most low-cost things you can do in this world when it comes to other people’s bodies is mind your own business. That’s the sort of 2022 etiquette lesson some people might need a reminder for…

Sodium thiosulfate showed no benefits for reducing injury to damaged areas of heart muscle following a heart attack, in a study presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 71st Annual Scientific Session. This was the first clinical trial to test…

Early discontinuation and nonreporting/nonpublication of findings continue to be common issues for conducting pediatric clinical trials, according to a study published online March 22 in Pediatrics. Ryan Brewster, M.D., from the Stanford University School of Medicine in California, and colleagues…

People who seek information on how to get a COVID-19 vaccine get widely different answers from the people who handle COVID-19 information hotlines and electronic communications, and those inconsistencies may play a role in whether someone pursues getting vaccinated, according…

While there are effective therapies to reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or "bad" cholesterol, and other lipids, to date there are no approved treatments to lower lipoprotein(a), a lesser-known driver of heart disease risk….