Caroline StaffordTry hard enough, we are often told, and eventually you'll get what you want.But sometimes the hardest - and bravest - thing to do, is to stop trying.After years...

Work to fix hospitals built using unsafe concrete will not be completed in time to meet the government's target, a new report has warned.Seven hospitals built using Raac, or reinforced...

Love Island's Dr Alex George believes his ADHD and OCD diagnoses "completely changed" his life.The former A&E medic, who grew up in Carmarthenshire but lives in London, wants improved waiting...

(MedPage Today) -- The safety of medication abortion got a contentious Senate hearing Wednesday as Republican lawmakers put pressure on the FDA to return to in-person prescribing requirements for mifepristone....

(MedPage Today) -- In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app among young Chinese people is definitively the latter....

(MedPage Today) -- Some of the experts who advised on the development of the most recent national dietary guidelines told MedPage Today that their work wasn't considered, and that the...

(MedPage Today) -- President Trump unveiled a health proposal Thursday that he said would lower costs for Americans and give them more money to pay their own health insurance costs...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has reinstated nearly $2 billion in grants to thousands of mental health and addiction treatment programs. Medscape Medical News Source link :...

(MedPage Today) -- The California department of health recommended that people avoid mushroom foraging, warning that death cap mushrooms have been linked to three deaths, three liver transplants, and 35...

(MedPage Today) -- One in four dementia patients received a potentially inappropriate drug prescription, an analysis of Medicare claims data suggested. Overall, 25.1% of people with dementia and 21.7% of...

Lithium-ion batteries could eventually last longerShutterstock/Bokeh Art Photo It may be possible to extend the life of lithium-ion batteries using standard, low-cost chemistry. Lithium-ion batteries consist of a negative anode...

(MedPage Today) -- A controversial study on hepatitis B vaccination in Guinea-Bissau that was funded in part by the U.S. CDC has been halted. Yap Boum, PhD, MPH, a senior...

(MedPage Today) -- The use of emojis in electronic health record (EHR) notes shot up last year compared with recent years, according to an analysis from a single academic medical...

Too much body fat isn’t healthy, but some kinds can be beneficialDR RAY CLARK & MERVYN GOFF/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY If you thought body fat was just a passive storage depot...

Pharmacy leaders warn that the end of business rate discounts could push many community pharmacies in England to the brink without urgent government support. Medscape News UK Source link :...

A collection of “little red dots” spotted by the James Webb Space TelescopeNASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and D. Kocevski (Colby U.)/Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach Impossibly bright...

(MedPage Today) -- As yet another government shutdown looms, telehealth's uncertainty remains -- and seniors risk paying the price. While headlines about the last government closure focused on insurance premiums,...

(MedPage Today) -- Pharmacists and female pharmacy technicians are at higher risk of suicide compared with their peers in the general population, a retrospective cohort study suggested. Using data from...

(MedPage Today) -- The share of medication spending attributable to physician associates/assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) for newer biologics to treat dermatologic conditions has tripled over the last decade,...

(MedPage Today) -- Organ donations from the recently deceased dropped last year for the first time in over a decade, resulting in fewer kidney transplants, according to an analysis issued...