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Is Lung Cancer Screening as Effective Without Risk-Based Selection?

(MedPage Today) -- Low-dose CT (LDCT) screening for lung cancer in an all-comer Chinese population ages 40 to 74 identified at least as many cases as would be expected from screening high-risk indivi

I'm in Medical School to Practice Healthcare Not 'Sick Care'

(MedPage Today) -- America does not have a healthcare system. I pulled back the curtain and saw a woman in her early 60s lying in the hospital bed.

Help to reduce high blood pressure lowers dementia risk, study finds

Lifestyle changes and medications found to reduce risk of cognitive disease by about 15%People given intensive help to reduce their high blood pressure such as medication and coaching have a lower ris

Intensive lowering of blood pressure tied to lower dementia risk

Intensive blood pressure control may cut dementia risk by 15%, says a new study in which community health workers managed hypertension treatment.

Oral and Injectable Naltrexone Similarly Effective for Alcohol Use Disorder

(MedPage Today) -- Daily oral and monthly extended-release injectable naltrexone were similarly effective at reducing heavy drinking days in patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD), a hospital-based

Annual Report to the Nation: Cancer deaths continue to decline

Overall death rates from cancer declined steadily among both men and women from 2001 through 2022.

STAT+: ACA marketplace worries, and a UNH stock chart

Affordable Care Act insurance enrollment may drop, UnitedHealth stumbles, and Braidwood arguments.

Graham Sergeant obituary

Physician and researcher who dedicated his life to the study of sickle cell disease and its variantsThe British doctor Graham Serjeant, who has died aged 86, lived and worked in Jamaica for more than

New research finds alarming levels of toxic chemicals in children’s mattresses

A study shows that toxic flame retardants used in mattresses can seep into air and be absorbed by childrenAlarming levels of highly toxic phthalates, flame retardants and UV filters in the air in smal

The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data | Jonathan Gilmour

Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics.

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