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Alcohol consumption in the United States increased by an average of 14% this spring, when most of the country was in some degree of lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey released Tuesday....Read More

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved nearly 50 new prescription opioid pain medications between 1997 and 2018, even though it lacked “critical” safety and efficacy information, an analysis said,...Read More

More women are either using cannabis or want to start doing so to manage some of the bothersome symptoms of menopause, a study presented Monday found....Read More

More than half of all clinical trials evaluating vaccines and potential treatments for COVID-19 are “at high risk for excluding older adults,” according to an analysis published Monday by JAMA Internal Medicine....Read More

A new machine learning approach added to conventional magnetic resonance imaging can identify the regions of the brain causing dissociative symptoms in people with post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers found....Read More

Being wealthy appears to reduce a person’s risk for heart disease — at least in the United States — based on the findings of an analysis published Friday by JAMA Network Open....Read More

Black Americans are five times as likely to get COVID-19 than those in other racial and ethnic groups, according to a study published Friday by JAMA Network Open....Read More

COVID-19 antibody test accuracy could be as low as 61%, depending on the type, and when and how they are used, according to an analysis published Thursday by the journal PLOS Pathogens....Read More

Researchers have linked a nearly 20% decline in “catastrophic” healthcare expenditures during the last decade to changes made as a result of the Affordable Care Act, according to an analysis published Thursday....Read More

Researchers in Sweden say they have developed a “fast, cheap, yet accurate” COVID-19 test good for situations in which frequent rescreening is needed and resources are limited....Read More