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Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A growing number of nations – and one state – are coming up with rules that encourage or require travelers to get a booster vaccine, Forbes…

A new drug has become the first and only treatment for people with cold agglutinin disease (CAD) that is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). CAD is a rare autoimmune hemolytic anemia, affecting about 5000 people in…

People with lower incomes are exposed to heat waves for longer periods of time compared to their higher income counterparts due to a combination of location and access to heat adaptations like air conditioning. This inequality is expected to rise…

Research led by Washington State University scientists supports a novel theory that the innate immune system people are born with can respond differently to specific pathogens. This quality, known as immunological specificity, was previously ascribed only to the adaptive immune…

Lung cancer: Dr Amir describes the symptoms We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You…

Type 2 diabetes can be a 'devastating diagnosis' says expert We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on…

Dr Ranj helps promote Arla's getfussed fibre campaign We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding….

Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research from Wellesley College published in the Journal of Vision has found that bar graphs are frequently…

Most coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests can be split into categories. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays can identify viral genetic material taken from nasopharyngeal swabs to discriminate between individuals who are currently infected and those who are not. Lateral flow…

In a study posted to the preprint server Research Square*, researchers conducted a retrospective cohort analysis by reviewing medical records of pregnant women to examine the impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) maternal infection on maternal and…