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Smoking pot from a bong at home generates four times as much potentially harmful secondhand smoke as tobacco cigarettes, a study published Wednesday by JAMA Network Open found....Read More

American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States are more likely to die from COVID-19 than Black and White Americans, even without the chronic conditions that place people at higher risk for serious illness....Read More

UnitedHealth, the largest healthcare insurance company in the United States, announced Tuesday that it intends to purchase LHC Group, a leader in home healthcare services, for approximately $5.4 billion....Read More

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University announced Tuesday they have developed a sensor device they say provides faster, more accurate COVID-19 test results....Read More

Cardiovascular disease deaths in older men are more likely to occur on warmer-than-usual summer nights, a study published Monday found....Read More

Children whose mothers used disinfectants during pregnancy were more likely to develop asthma or eczema, a study published Monday found....Read More

Nearly 30% of adolescents and teens in the United States meet the criteria for prediabetes, an analysis published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics found....Read More

As many as half of women who undergo breast-cancer screenings experience a false-positive mammogram result during 10 years of annual evaluations, a study published Friday by JAMA Network Open found....Read More

A tablet that contains cannabidiol, or CBD, reduces pain after shoulder surgery with no safety concerns, a study presented Friday during the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting found....Read More

New variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 may generate different “long COVID” symptoms than earlier strains of the virus, a European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases study found....Read More