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Black and Hispanic Americans are hospitalized for COVID-19 at a rate of up to three times their share of the general population, according to an analysis published Monday by JAMA Internal Medicine....Read More

Forty-five percent of teens who use e-cigarettes want to quit the habit, according to an analysis published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics....Read More

About half of all parents and grandparents disagree over parenting choices for children like discipline, meals and TV time, according to the results of national poll released Monday....Read More

COVID-19 causes heart problems ranging from irregular heartbeats to angina and worsens pre-existing cardiovascular conditions, according to an analysis published Friday by PLOS ONE....Read More

A program designed to increase access to treatment and infection-prevention tools has reduced malaria cases in southern Mozambique by 85%, but has not eliminated the disease, an analysis in PLOS Medicine found....Read More

More than one-third of children and adolescents across the United States eat fast food each day, according to new figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....Read More

Anxiety and depression have been widespread during COVID-19 lockdowns this spring, due in part to social distancing and declines in physical activity, two surveys published Thursday showed....Read More

Older adults with diabetes are nearly three times as likely to develop pancreatic cancer than the general population, according to an analysis published Thursday by JAMA Oncology....Read More

Deaths from COVID-19 in New York City during the first two months of the outbreak were “remarkably comparable” to those seen in the city at the height of the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, a new study says....Read More

Deaths from non-small cell lung cancer in the United States declined by at least 3% a year on average between 2006 and 2016, according to an analysis published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine....Read More