Lynette HorsburghNorth WestCancer Research UK handoutSophie Claxton says it was a huge shock being told she had cancerA student who thought she had flu has described being "shell-shocked" when she...

James GallagherHealth and science correspondentGetty ImagesFlu should always be taken seriously. It is a virus that kills thousands of people every winter and puts intense strain on hospitals.However, I can't...

(MedPage Today) -- Radical change is needed to eliminate health inequities in the U.S., argued policy experts during the launch of the Bridging Our Divide campaign, hosted by the Institute...

(MedPage Today) -- HHS plans to remove a number of recommended vaccines from the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule early next year and create a lineup that mirrors Denmark's slimmer schedule,...

(MedPage Today) -- The U.S. military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a combat zone, ending an exercise...

(MedPage Today) -- The FDA and four drug companies, one with a link to oncology, received 2025 "Rotten Tomatoes" awards from Fierce Biotech for representing "strategic missteps, chaotic management, or...

(MedPage Today) -- A higher and less frequent dose of aflibercept (Eylea) was noninferior to the standard dose for the treatment of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) in patients with neovascular...

(MedPage Today) -- A few days ago, a recruiter pitched me a W-2 clinical role. When I mentioned preferring to manage my own insurance and retirement structure as an independent...

(MedPage Today) -- Treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in adults with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) was associated with significantly lower risks of certain cancers, a retrospective propensity-score matched analysis found....

Lisa Summers,Scotland health and social care correspondentandCatherine Lyst,BBC ScotlandGetty ImagesScotland's resident doctors are to go on strike in a dispute over pay - the first time a national walkout has...

(MedPage Today) -- Proton radiotherapy (RT) for oropharyngeal cancer matched conventional photon therapy for slowing disease progression and led to better overall survival (OS) with less toxicity, a prospective randomized...

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(MedPage Today) -- Julia Dvorak is worried her 83-year-old mother's trips to the emergency department for seizures are depleting her retirement savings and will soon force her to go on...

(MedPage Today) -- Researchers have raised concerns about an unusual federal grant made to Danish researchers to study the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose in Africa. The CDC awarded $1.6...

(MedPage Today) -- Armed with a recent authorization from the FDA, eye specialists are offering light therapy to patients with non-exudative (dry) age-related macular degeneration (AMD), aiming to stop or...

Young people will be hit hardest by successive governments' failure to focus on financial and societal challenges caused by an ageing population, a House of Lords report has suggested.They will...

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(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. After patient deaths from interstitial lung disease in a lung cancer trial testing the antibody-drug conjugate ifinatamab deruxtecan,...

Millions of chickens have been culled due to the threat of bird fluEmily Elconin/Bloomberg via Getty Images The US experienced its first known bird flu deaths this year, igniting concerns...

The perception of GLP-1s — and the people who use them — is getting better, but work still must be done to avoid stigma. Medscape Medical News Source link :...