Mortality rates after cancer surgery declined for Black as well as white patients during a recent 10-year period, although the mortality gap between the…
Excerpted from “Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life” by Suzanne Koven, associate professor, Harvard Medical School, and primary care…
An additional “booster” dose of Moderna or Pfizer mRNA-based vaccine is needed to provide immunity against the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that…
New treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have shown early effectiveness in 85 percent of patients in a cohort that included many people with…
Obesity has been linked to increased risk for over a dozen different types of cancer, as well as worse prognosis and survival. Over the…
Just five steps are enough to gain control of the nation’s COVID-19 outbreak and head off a return to the complete lockdowns many states…
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been easy to forget that a number of longstanding deadly global health problems remain with us, in some cases…
We all know that exercise is good for us and that being fit can lower our risk of heart disease and possibly help us…