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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted emergency use authorization to the antiviral remdesivir to treat COVID-19....Read More

Blood clots, skin rashes and other lesions might be among the symptoms some people experience with COVID-19, according to new research released Thursday....Read More

Poverty and poor or non-existent health insurance coverage might worsen the effects of heart failure, the American Heart Association said Thursday....Read More

Tocilizumab, a drug used to treat some forms of arthritis, might be an effective treatment for those with severe cases of COVID-19, according to the preliminary findings of a study....Read More

E-cigarette users experience similar damage to their arteries and blood vessels as smokers of traditional cigarettes, an analysis published Wednesday by the Journal of the American Heart Association has found....Read More

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration might grant emergency approval for the antiviral drug remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19 following new clinical trial results that suggest the drug could help some patients....Read More

A multi-national team of researchers has determined that cancer patients were nearly twice as likely to experience severe symptoms from COVID-19 and twice as likely to die as a result of infection....Read More

Prisons are designed to keep criminals away from the general public, but if inmates become infected with COVID-19 they face serious potential health consequences — and walls and barbed wire won’t contain the virus....Read More

Upwardly mobile adults, those with lower incomes earlier in life who rose up the socioeconomic ladder, had significantly less stress and depression than those less fortunate, but had a higher risk for metabolic syndrome....Read More

Stress on the job may increase a person’s risk for peripheral artery disease, according a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association....Read More