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Black people with cancer are more likely to have metastatic disease when they are diagnosed, a new analysis published Wednesday by JAMA Network Open has suggested....Read More

Shortages in testing kits for COVID-19 have not only led to confusion about who has the virus, but who has recovered from it, experts say....Read More

Celiac disease may increase risk for premature death by more than 20 percent, according to a Swedish study published Tuesday in JAMA....Read More

Since the coronavirus outbreak exploded in early March, 95 percent of people in the United States have made changes to their lifestyle, including stockpiling food and practicing social distancing, researchers report....Read More

South Korea is using blood plasma from recovered coronavirus patients to test and potentially treat others....Read More

Researchers have identified a new drug that reduced the lung damage associated with COVID-19 in human lung cultures and mice, but it still needs to be tested for safety and efficacy in humans....Read More

Researchers at the University of Arizona say they may be able to track the presence of coronavirus in communities by analyzing municipal wastewater....Read More

A diet rich in fiber may reduce a woman’s risk for breast cancer, a new study has found....Read More

Researchers may have found a weakness in SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes COVID-19, that provides clues as to how to treat the infection — and possibly develop a vaccine to prevent its spread....Read More

More than 8 percent of all deaths across the United States in the last week have been linked with pneumonia and influenza, a number on the rise likely because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC reported...