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The World Health Organization strongly recommends Pfizer’s oral antiviral drug Paxlovid for people with mild to moderate COVID-19 who are at the highest risk for developing severe illness and needing hospital treatment....Read More

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory Thursday after identifying a cluster of hepatitis and adenovirus infections in U.S. children....Read More

Face coverings still help limit risk for infection in those vulnerable to severe COVID-19 despite a federal judge striking down a government-imposed mask mandate for planes, buses and trains, experts said Thursday....Read More

People with Type 2 diabetes who show declining brain function, including memory loss, may be at increased risk for strokes and heart attacks compared with people without the most common form of diabetes, a study found....Read More

People who take drugs designed to treat depression long-term do not see improvements in their overall physical and mental well-being compared with who avoid anti-depressant medication, a study says....Read More

Testing a person’s blood for the presence of circulating melanoma cells may help identify skin cancer, while allowing them to skip invasive biopsies, a study published Wednesday found....Read More

Athletes who played football at least through college experience health problems such as cognitive impairment, headaches, heart disease and high cholesterol more so than those who did not play the sport, a study found....Read More

Children ages 5 to 11 years not vaccinated against COVID-19 were hospitalized at twice the rate of those were inoculated during the Omicron surge last winter, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported....Read More

Using an online program that provides easily accessible, interactive, tailored healthy lifestyle and behavior change counseling improves health-related quality of life among adult stroke survivors, a study found....Read More

A smartwatch that can track heart rate can be used to monitor disease progression in people with COVID-19 and may predict how sick they will become, a study published Tuesday found....Read More