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Rollout of the available COVID-19 vaccines in the United States continues to be slow, due in part to “20 years of disinvestment in the country’s public health infrastructure,” experts said Thursday....Read More

Brand-name prescription drug prices in the United States are nearly three times higher than those in 32 other high-income countries, according to a report released Thursday by the RAND Corporation....Read More

Healthcare workers sickened with COVID-19 appear to have a much lower risk for more severe disease, according to a study published Thursday by JAMA Network Open....Read More

Hormonal intrauterine devices are just as effective as their copper and plastic counterparts at providing emergency contraception and preventing unwanted pregnancies, according to a study published Wednesday by NEJM....Read More

Drugmakers Lilly, Vir Biotechnology and GlaxoSmithKline on Wednesday announced plans to conduct a clinical trial to evaluate a combination of two drugs in people with mild to moderate COVID-19....Read More

More than half of adults hospitalized with COVID-19 had diminished lung function four months after they have recovered and returned home, a study published Wednesday by JAMA Network Open found....Read More

Young children who use touchscreens extensively are more easily distracted than peers who engage less with the technology, a study published Tuesday by Scientific Reports found....Read More

People who suffer from a mini-stroke have a four times higher risk for a future, more serious stroke during the next 10 years compared with those without a history of these events, according to a study...

One in five people in the United States has a sexually transmitted infection, according to estimates released Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....Read More

Current and former long-time smokers are more than twice as likely to require hospital care after COVID-19 infection and nearly twice as likely to die from the virus compared to those who never smoked....Read More