After years of debate and disagreement, could an improved, more user-friendly version of iPLEDGE be on the horizon?iPLEDGE, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-required Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy...

TOPLINE:The prevalence of recurrent urinary tract infections (rUTIs) and the use of antibiotics for prevention are substantial among women in Wales, particularly among those over the age of 57 years....

TOPLINE:Zasocitinib , a tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) inhibitor, at oral doses of ≥ 5 mg led to greater skin clearance than placebo over a period of 12 weeks, in a...

We know exercise can be a powerful medical intervention. Now scientists are finally starting to understand why.A recent study in rats found that exercise positively changes virtually every tissue in...

More than half of Black kidney transplant candidates have already benefited from a new race-neutral policy for estimating kidney function, according to recent national data.Between January 5, 2023, and August...

TOPLINE:Researchers detail best practices for pediatricians in evaluating dental indications of child abuse and how to work with other physicians to detect and report these incidents.METHODOLOGY:Approximately 323,000 children in the...

Infection with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk for complications and miscarriage. That is why vaccination against COVID-19 is recommended for pregnant women. Initial data have not...

In older individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD), a higher intake of animal or plant protein is associated with reduced mortality. This finding comes from an analysis of three cohorts...

"It can certainly happen in patients who are not surfers." -- Matthew Gorski, MD, of Northwell Health in Great Neck, New York, on the risk for pterygium, an ultraviolet radiation-induced...

Claire Panosian Dunavan is a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a past-president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine...

AMES, Iowa -- At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm. Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A milking barn sits in the distance with a tractor parked alongside....

The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up can...

Anthony Fauci, MD, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), spent time in the hospital after being infected with West Nile virus and is...

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas...

Lazarus is an adjunct professor of psychiatry. In 2021, Congress ordered the Defense Department to look into renaming military bases, ships, and anything else that was named in honor of...

Jeremy Faust is editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and a public health researcher. He is author of the Substack column...