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Seven public health groups and five medical doctors sued the Food and Drug Administration for delaying the regulation of e-cigarettes, cigars and hookah....Read More

The rubber ducky, those yellow bath-time toys used to entertain kids, contained high numbers of bacteria and fungal species, according to a study in Switzerland....Read More

Less than 13 percent of baby boomers have undergone screening for the hepatitis C virus despite a steady increase in liver cancer in the United States....Read More

Prices for the most-used drugs for seniors have risen at 10 times the rate of inflation, according to a report from a U.S. Senate committee....Read More

A smartphone app can accurately track the severity of symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, leading to better drugs and treatment, according researchers....Read More

Children with autism and their younger siblings were less likely to be fully vaccinated compared to the general population, according to a new study....Read More

The drug varenicline, marketed as Chantix, reduced smoking among patients who had suffered a heart attack one year earlier, according to a controlled trial....Read More

Less than 40 percent of people who have high cholesterol levels are taking the right medications, according to a national study....Read More

Age-adjusted biomarker thresholds accurately diagnose or rule out acute heart failure in patients seen for shortness of breath at emergency departments....Read More

A new drug designed to treat advanced cases of multiple sclerosis delays progression of the disease in the short term, according to a Phase 3 clinical trial....Read More