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A program designed to bring education and care services to communities most at-risk for preterm birth and infant death reduces these complications by nearly 50%, a study in the Journal of Maternal and Child Health found....Read More

COVID-19 patients treated in hospital ICUs during periods of increased demand are nearly twice as likely to die from the disease compared to those who receive care during low-demand periods, a study published by JAMA....Read More

Suicide rates among people with cancer declined by nearly 3% annually over the past 20 years, a study published Tuesday by JNCI: The Journal of the National Cancer Institute found....Read More

People who take aspirin at least three times per week are more likely to survive bladder cancer, according to an analysis published Friday by JAMA Network Open....Read More

A more contagious strain of COVID-19 could become the “predominant” one in the United States by March, potentially undermining gains in infection control spurred by vaccines, researchers from the CDC predicted....Read More

COVID-19 tests that use patients’ saliva to screen for the virus are just as effective as those that use swabs collected from the nose and throat, an analysis published by JAMA Internal Medicine found....Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic reduced life expectancy in the United States in 2020 by more than a year, from roughly 78.5 years to 77.5 years, an analysis published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

The incoming Biden administration’s plan to release more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine won’t cause supply shortages, Dr. Celine Gounder, a member of the newly created COVID-19 advisory board said Thursday....Read More

Retinal stem cells collected from human cadavers offer a potential treatment for blindness, according to the authors of an article published Thursday by Stem Cell Reports....Read More

Roughly 500,000 people across the United States are diagnosed with Lyme disease each year, according to new estimates released Wednesday by the CDC, but researchers raise concern that some people may be misdiagnosed....Read More