(Reuters) -U.S. pharmaceutical industry middlemen defended their role in the healthcare system during a Congressional hearing on Tuesday after committee members accused them of pushing patients […]

Accelerated approvals for cancer drugs is a good idea in theory. This US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pathway allows promising new cancer agents to reach […]

Auto-brewery syndrome is a rare multifactorial disease in which endogenous alcohol production occurs due to an overpopulation of fermentable microorganisms (especially Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida species […]

STOCKHOLM — A large database analysis of more than 370,000 patients has found that glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists do not seem to increase the […]

Efanesoctocog alfa, a first-in-class, bioengineered human factor VIII replacement therapy, shows safety and efficacy in the prevention of bleeding in children with severe hemophilia A, with […]

The drones are coming. Starting in September, if someone in Clemmons, North Carolina, calls 911 to report a cardiac arrest, the first responder on the scene […]

Mark Hutchinson, MD, was at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio when an athlete on the US rowing team came into the medical area. Hutchinson, an […]

Individuals with preexisting sleep disturbances including obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), insomnia, and abnormal sleep duration showed significantly increased vulnerability to COVID-19, as well as an increased […]

Patients with dementia may instead have hepatic encephalopathy (HE) and should be screened with the Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) index for cirrhosis, one of the main causes of […]