Passengers aboard the MV Hondius, the ship afflicted by a hantavirus outbreak, remain at sea, with plans to dock in the Canary Islands on Sunday. James Lawler, MD, MPH, of...

LOS ANGELES -- Shula Jassell is insecure about the size of her chin and has periodically considered getting filler to make it bigger. But when the 25-year-old from Southern California...

Share on PinterestNew research found that the drug endoxifen reduced mammographic breast density with fewer side effects. praetorianphoto/Getty ImagesA study has found promising results with the breast cancer prevention drug...

The Bering Strait separates Alaska and RussiaOcean Color/OB.DAAC/OBPG/NASA It would be an engineering project on a truly epic scale, but we may one day need to consider building a dam...

The FDA on Friday issued guidance for manufacturers collecting postmarketing data on the safety of approved drugs and biologics in pregnancy, with the goal of better understanding potential risks for...

Inequities persisted among female nephrologists at U.S. academic institutions, with barriers to advancement and burnout among the reasons many felt a lack of satisfaction, an interim analysis of survey data...

Hantaviruses do not spread easily between people, which makes health officials confident the recent outbreak on a cruise ship that has killed three people will not turn into an epidemic....

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...

MRI-detected sacroiliac bone marrow edema is a key diagnostic marker for axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), but its value in ruling out other causes of patients' symptoms depends on how common it...

The brain appeared to process complex sensory information under general anesthesia, neural recordings suggested.Hippocampal neurons and local brain oscillations responded to sounds and podcast recordings during anesthesia-induced unconsciousness.The findings suggest...

DENVER -- An investigational oral therapy for diabetic macular edema (DME) did not significantly affect retinal thickening in a placebo-controlled randomized trial. After 6 months of treatment, mean central subfield...

DENVER -- An investigational oral therapy for diabetic macular edema (DME) did not significantly affect retinal thickening in a placebo-controlled randomized trial. After 6 months of treatment, mean central subfield...

The co-antibody therapy JNJ-4804 -- a fixed-dose combination of guselkumab (Tremfya) and golimumab (Simponi) -- showed clinically meaningful efficacy exceeding that of either drug alone in patients with highly refractory...

Oregon oncologist Stephen Kornfeld, MD, was a passenger on the MV Hondius but ended up treating hantavirus patients when the ship's onboard physician became seriously ill. (CNN) The FDA announced...

The monoclonal antibody dupilumab (Dupixent) led to significant improvements in esophageal distensibility among patients with eosinophilic esophagitis, the randomized REMODEL trial showed. At 24 weeks, patients taking dupilumab had an...

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 Texas Tech...

Archival imagery from the Apollo 17 mission to the moon. The yellow box contains an enlarged area of the original photo in which three lights are visible above the lunar...

President Trump has signed off on a plan to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Friday. Makary is seen by other top...

The White House signed off on a plan to fire U.S. Food and Drug ⁠Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, according to sources familiar with the matter, in what could be... Reuters...

Like many of you, I was deeply troubled when, on May 3, news broke that three people had died of a probable hantavirus infection and others had fallen ill on...