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Accepting hearts from older donors and those with some chronic health conditions allowed surgeons at Yale New Haven Hospital to perform more transplants and reduce the time recipients spent on the waiting list....Read More

Private insurers paid roughly 2.5 times what Medicare paid for hospital-based treatment in 2018, an analysis released Friday by the RAND Corp. found....Read More

Vaccine manufacturers have ramped up production of the 2020-21 flu shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the two viruses expected to overlap this winter, experts told UPI....Read More

Vitamin D deficiency increases a person’s risk for getting infected with COVID-19 by more than 50%, a study published Thursday in the journal PLOS ONE found....Read More

A commercially available nasal antiseptic solution “inactivates” COVID-19 15 seconds after the coronavirus is exposed to it, effectively preventing the infection from developing, according to a study published Thursday....Read More

Taking aspirin, statins and the drug metformin together reduces the risk for lung cancer by 17%, a study published Thursday by the Journal of Thoracic Oncology found....Read More

Facemasks offer more individual protection against COVID-19 than any potential vaccine, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told lawmakers Wednesday....Read More

Women who experience adverse pregnancy outcomes ranging from high blood pressure to gestational diabetes have a more than 25% higher risk for heart disease later in life than those who don’t....Read More

A change in drug manufacturing regulations played a more significant role in reducing opioid-related overdose deaths in the United States in 2018 than any domestic public health initiatives, an analysis found....Read More

Nearly 60% of people undergoing treatment for lung cancer experienced disruptions in care this spring because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis published Wednesday by JAMA Oncology....Read More