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Taking blood-thinners and diabetes drugs at higher-than-recommended doses or in error often leads to health complications that bring older adults to hospital emergency rooms, a study published Tuesday by JAMA found....Read More

People under age 40 who lose their sense of smell and taste due to COVID-19 are more likely to recover them than older adults, a study published Tuesday by the American Journal of Otolaryngology found....Read More

Black adults in the United States are at higher risk for developing heart disease than people of other racial or ethnic groups, a study published Tuesday by JAMA found....Read More

Adults with Type 2 diabetes on statin therapy may need to adjust their diabetes treatment to avoid worsening symptoms, a study published Monday by JAMA Internal Medicine found....Read More

The risk for developing heart-related complications after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine among adults is very low, particularly for women, according to the authors of a study published Monday by JAMA Internal Medicine....Read More

Drugs prescribed for Type 2 diabetes may actually increase insulin resistance in the body by boosting production of the hormone to unhealthy levels, causing the disease to worsen, researchers from Boston University said....Read More

Children age 6 to 17 had about four hours per day of “screen time” on mobile devices, computers or gaming systems daily during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States last fall, according...

More than 2 million middle school and high school students in the United States reported currently using e-cigarettes in 2021, according to data released Thursday by the FDA and CDC....Read More

More than half of deaths from police violence during a nearly 40-year period went unreported or misclassified, a new study says, with Black people 3.5 times more likely to die from police violence than White people....Read More

Fewer than one in 10 children and teens with COVID-19 still has lingering neurological and psychological effects of the virus five months after becoming infected, a study posted online found....Read More