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Assessing how much elderly people exercise may help determine their risk for heart disease, a study published Friday in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality and Outcomes has found....Read More

Flavored e-cigarettes may help adults quit smoking, but they may make teenagers more inclined to start, a study published Friday by JAMA Network Open found....Read More

Regularly sleeping poorly may increase a person’s risk for heart disease, a study has found. The connection may be that fragmented sleep increases inflammation in the body, which in turn raises risk for atherosclerosis....Read More

The Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine announced Thursday that the authors of published studies on use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 have retracted their findings....Read More

Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act increased access to more effective birth control methods for women beneficiaries, according to a study published Thursday by JAMA Network Open....Read More

Visits to hospital emergency rooms across the country have dropped by more than 40 percent so far in 2020, compared to the same period last year, according to figures released Wednesday by the CDC....Read More

Occasional smokers are nearly four times as likely to die from smoking-related cancers as non-smokers, a study published Wednesday has found. Daily smokers are nearly five times as likely to die, researchers said....Read More

Children age 2 or older who met the criteria for obesity were three times more likely to require a ventilator to treat their COVID-19 than those who had a healthy weight. Severe illness remains rare in...

Limited spread of COVID-19 at a U.S. military base shows public health measures — screening, testing, quarantining, social distancing and contact tracing — offer some protection, the CDC said Tuesday....Read More

Efforts to encourage women with a history of cesarean section, or C-section, to opt for vaginal birth at the time of delivery are going high-tech, but based on the findings of a new study improvements are...