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Arizona schools without mask requirements for students and staff were nearly four times more likely to experience a COVID-19 outbreak than those who mandate face coverings, according to data released Friday by the CDC....Read More

Changes in heart function observed on electrocardiograms of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 or influenza can help predict a time frame for worsening health, a study says....Read More

Nearly one in three people who reported being reluctant to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine ultimately received at least one dose, a study published Friday by JAMA Network Open found....Read More

Bisexual women are more likely to report experiencing male-perpetrated, “non-voluntary” or “forced” vaginal intercourse in their lifetime than heterosexual women, according to survey findings released by the CDC....Read More

Researchers have identified two new subtypes of metastatic prostate cancer that respond differently to treatment, they reported in a study published Thursday by JAMA Oncology....Read More

Roughly half of adults worldwide experienced declines in quality of life in 2020 because of restrictions intended to limit COVID-19 spread, a survey published Wednesday by the Journal of Sleep Research found....Read More

Drug overdose deaths linked with illegal stimulants other than cocaine — mostly methamphetamine — nearly tripled between 2015 and 2019, an analysis published Wednesday by JAMA Psychiatry found....Read More

People with diets high in dairy fat are at lower risk for heart disease than those who consume less fat from milk-based foods, a study published Tuesday by the journal PLOS Medicine found....Read More

Treatment with monoclonal antibodies reduced the need for hospital care in adults at high risk for serious illness from COVID-19, a study published Tuesday by JAMA Network Open found....Read More

Hispanic people in the United States are up to 30% less likely to develop cancer and die from the disease compared to White people, according to an analysis published Tuesday by CA: A Cancer Journal for...