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Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Congestive heart failure is a terminal disease that affects nearly 6 million Americans. Yet its management is limited to symptomatic...

Kaiser Permanente members in Northern California are 52 percent less likely to die from colorectal cancer since the health care system launched a comprehensive, organized...

An innovative program in community health centers to mail free colorectal cancer screening tests to patients' homes led to a nearly 4 percentage point increase...

Credit: Martin420/Wikimedia Commons New therapies could be on the horizon for people living with epilepsy or anxiety, thanks to a breakthrough discovery by UNLV, Tufts...

DURHAM, N.H. -- A mystery shopper approach uncovered a need for more education about Title IX regulations and sexual assault on college campuses, according to...

ATLANTA - The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) today expressed its extreme disappointment with a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) decision to...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--August 9, 2018--Trillions of tiny microbes and bacteria live in your gut, each with their own set of genes. These gut microbes can...

Credit: Photo by Don Boomer, Scripps Research A one-two punch of powerful antibodies may be the best way to stop Ebola virus, reports an international...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, has reduced the number of Americans without health insurance from 18 percent to...

Older kidney disease patients who are sick enough to require the blood-filtering treatment known as dialysis are at high risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease,...

While there has been much effort to control spending for individuals eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare in the United States, for the first time...

Will clinicians become more careful in prescribing opioids if they are made of aware of the risks of these drugs first-hand? That was one of...

You might want to think before you go out drinking again tonight. Research by Mariann Piano, senior associate dean of research at Vanderbilt University School...

Each day, health-care providers are bombarded with electronic notifications in patients' electronic health records, alerting them to potential drug interactions. Many of these notifications go..

GALVESTON, Texas - A new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has found that although the...