(Reuters) - Bristol Myers Squibb won the dismissal on Monday of a $6.4 billion lawsuit claiming it cheated former Celgene shareholders by delaying federal approval for the cancer drug Breyanzi...

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published its first clinical practical guidelines on opioid prescriptions for children with acute pain, outlining 12 evidence-based recommendations for safely and appropriately treating pain...

Kigali, RWANDA -- Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, just days after the country declared an outbreak of the deadly...

Fred Pelzman is an associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, and has been a practicing internist for nearly 30 years. He is medical director of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine...

An invitation to undergo screening for Helicobacter pylori stool antigen did not reduce rates of gastric cancer incidence or mortality, according to results from a Taiwanese randomized trial. Among participants...

There needs to be an independent review of physician and anaesthesia associates (PAs and AAs) in England, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says.The group, which brings together leading doctors...

Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Some Florida voters accused Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) of an "intimidation campaign" against abortion rights supporters. (The Guardian) The Department of...

VIENNA — Artificial Intelligence (AI) can assist doctors in assessing and diagnosing respiratory illnesses in infants and children, according to two new studies presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS)...

Clozapine is considered the drug of choice for treatment-resistant schizophrenia in guidelines globally, but it remains significantly underutilized. This is largely due to its range of side effects, particularly its...

TOPLINE:A new epigenetic assay is able to stratify patients with Barrett's esophagus into lower-risk and higher-risk categories for progression to high-grade dysplasia or esophageal adenocarcinoma within 5 years, aiding in...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Growing evidence supports the use of highly effective disease-modifying therapies for children with multiple sclerosis (MS). However, only few of these medications are licensed for pediatric use,...

A fourth case of locally acquired dengue has been reported in California, according to a press release from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The affected individual, a...

Eliezer Masliah, MD, director of the neuroscience division at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), has been "relieved of his position" following an investigation by the National Institutes of Health...

Demand for new weight loss drugs has surged over the past few years. Led by the antiobesity drugs semaglutide (Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Zepbound), these popular medications — more commonly known as...

A noninvasive eye test could help people with Sjögren disease — a disorder that can go undiagnosed for years — get relief sooner, suggested a pilot study published in Therapeutic...

It is likely that some of the approximately 428,500 doctors in Germany have addiction. They conduct patient consultations, perform surgeries, respond to emergency ambulance calls, and administer anesthesia. Accordingly, the...

MILAN — Antidepressants escitalopram and duloxetine have been shown to improve verbal memory in moderate to severe depression, a clinical effect linked to changes in serotonin 4 (5-HT4) receptor levels...

Late last week, a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel met to discuss whether to limit the use of nivolumab (Opdivo) and pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in patients with unresectable or...

AMSTERDAM — For patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) who responded to the anti-interleukin (IL)-13 monoclonal antibody lebrikizumab in the pivotal trials, the level of response, including 90% skin clearance, has...

Nonprofit hospitals in the United States received tax breaks worth $37.4 billion in 2021, subsidized partly by property taxes in surrounding communities, a new JAMA study reported.The findings are likely...