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Hospital emergency rooms in the United States saw an increase in patients requiring treatment for drug overdoses and suicide attempts in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic raged, according to the CDC....Read More

Almost one in three teens and young adults who take prescription stimulants or tranquilizers misuses the drugs for recreational purposes, according to a study published Tuesday by Family Medicine & Community Health....Read More

Younger adults are driving the spread of COVID-19 across the United States, accounting for nearly two-thirds of new cases nationally, according to a study published Tuesday by Science....Read More

An MRI-guided ultrasound treatment is effective against intermediate-risk prostate cancer and causes minimal side effects, according to a study published Tuesday by Radiology....Read More

Just over 5% of people vaccinated against COVID-19 in the United States during the first month of the rollout were Black, according to data released Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...Read More

Nearly half of all concussions sustained by college football players occur during preseason practice, according to a study published Monday by JAMA Neurology....Read More

Children who suffer from frequent or severe headaches are more than twice as likely to miss school and to perform poorly than their peers, according to a study published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics....Read More

Black children in the United States are 18% less likely to get imaging tests during visits to the emergency room compared with White children, according to a study published Friday by JAMA Network Open....Read More

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine effectively prevents infection from the “U.K. strain” of the virus, according to a study published Friday by Science....Read More

Most babies born to mothers with COVID-19 antibodies show evidence of the immune cells against the virus in their own blood, according to a study published Friday by JAMA Pediatrics....Read More