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Most people who receive treatment for cancer continue to produce antibodies against COVID-19 up to four months after their second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, a study published Wednesday by JAMA Oncology found....Read More

Long-term exposure to loud noise on the job leads to a slight increase in a person’s risk for heart attack, stroke or high blood pressure, a study published by the Journal of the Acoustical Society of...

More than two-thirds of calories consumed by children and teens in the United States come from ultra-processed foods, a study published Tuesday by JAMA found....Read More

Teens who develop myocarditis after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine typically do so within six days of their second dose, and most are “mildly affected” by it, an analysis published Tuesday by JAMA Cardiology....Read More

Men diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis or another inflammatory form of the disease have higher rates of infertility and involuntary childlessness than those without these joint conditions, a study found....Read More

States that placed limits on the duration of opioid pain medication prescriptions saw a more than 25% reduction in the length of time people used the potentially addictive drugs, a JAMA Internal Medicine study found....Read More

Mother-to-infant transmission of COVID-19 during pregnancy and delivery is rare, according to a study published Monday by JAMA Network Open....Read More

Questions to patients about firearm access during routine primary care and mental health visits can help prevent suicide, according to a study published Friday by JAMA Health Forum....Read More

People infected with COVID-19 earlier in the pandemic, but who opt to not get vaccinated against the virus, are more than twice as likely to get sickened again compared with those who receive the shot, based...

People infected with COVID-19 continue to produce antibodies against the virus for up to seven months, a study published Friday by Nature Communications found....Read More