(MedPage Today) -- U.S. adolescents may spend more time on their smartphones during school hours than their parents would like, according to data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD)...

(MedPage Today) -- Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism therapy centers across the U.S. in the past decade, an analysis showed. Between 2015 and 2024, 574 sites that...

An overhaul of US childhood immunisation guidelines has dropped the number of diseases children should be vaccinated against from 17 to 11.The new list of recommended vaccines, issued by the...

(MedPage Today) -- States will no longer have to report how many children they vaccinate to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), according to a Dec. 30 letter...

(MedPage Today) -- The CDC on Monday cut the number of universally recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, contrary to the advice of public health experts. The new guidance...

(MedPage Today) -- A newer D-dimer cutoff safely ruled out leg deep vein thrombosis (DVT) for more people, sparing them from further imaging and anticoagulation, according to a prospective validation...

(MedPage Today) -- Racial disparities in gout and gout treatment are an ongoing but tractable problem, research at the 2025 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)'s annual meeting suggested. In a...

(MedPage Today) -- America is debating expanding involuntary treatment for people with serious mental illness and/or addictions who are experiencing homelessness. The recent executive order "Ending Crime and Disorder on...

(MedPage Today) -- The nation's health department starting Monday can resume sharing the personal data of certain Medicaid enrollees with deportation officials, according to a federal judge's ruling, in a...

Available for 32 daysIn Can I Believe My Eyes? writer and presenter Chris Tally Evans takes a deep dive into the fascinating world of Charles Bonnet Syndrome. Through the lens...

(MedPage Today) -- Maternal-fetal medicine doctors regularly care for high-risk pregnancies and rare complications, but a California medical team saw an exceedingly unique case: a healthy baby born at term...

Researchers working at Prudhoe Dome in GreenlandCaleb K. Walcott-George An ice dome in northern Greenland once melted completely at temperatures the region could experience again this century, a finding that...

(MedPage Today) -- U.S. flu infections surged over the holidays, and health officials are calling it a severe season that is likely to get worse. New government data posted Monday...

(MedPage Today) -- Just returning from a few days of vacation -- I took off a bit around the holidays to relax around the house, catch up on some household...

(MedPage Today) -- Enhanced tax credits that have helped reduce the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Affordable Care Act enrollees expired overnight, cementing higher health costs...

“On the spectrum.” These three words have become synonymous with autism, yet behind them lies a common misunderstanding. The idea of “the spectrum” suggests that all autistic people share similar...

(MedPage Today) -- Three days after Christmas, Deborah Greenhouse, MD, of Columbia, South Carolina, voiced her frustration on social media about the measles outbreak in her state: "Things that I...

This galaxy cluster should be much, much colder than it isLingxiao Yuan A young galaxy cluster in the early universe is defying our understanding of how these huge structures formed...

(MedPage Today) -- For too long, nurses have been referred to as "patient advocates." While well-intentioned, this is actually harmful to patient care and the nursing profession. It is time...

Megan Eaves-Egenes’s Nightfaring explores our connection with the night skyShutterstock / danm12 Here in the northern hemisphere, January always feels like the longest, drabbest month of the year, so how...