Empty cartridges of Kloxxado, a naloxone nasal spray that is twice as concentrated as Narcan, lay on the street after being used to revive a man in Portland, Ore., last year.
Dr. Hilary Cass published a landmark report that led to restrictions on youth gender care in Britain. U.S. health groups said it did not change their support of the care.
People with two copies of the gene variant APOE4 are almost certain to get Alzheimerβs, say researchers, who proposed a framework under which such patients could be diagnosed years before symptoms.
New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by 22 percent, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.
Flowers for Karon Blake, 13, who was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., in January 2023. Gun-related deaths were two to four times higher among Black and Native American youth than among white youth.
Despite an arsenal of drugs, many Americans are still unaware of their infections until itβs too late. A Biden initiative languishes without Congressional approval.
Dr. Sanjeev Arora, a gastroenterologist in Albuquerque, founded Project ECHO in the early 2000s to connect primary care doctors in sparsely populated areas with specialists. ECHOβs New Mexico hepatitis C program has provided treatment for more than 10,000 patients.
The C.D.C. maintained Wednesday that the risk for the public was still low, with no changes in the genetic makeup of the virus that would allow it to spread more easily to or between humans.
A public research institute in Brazil has proved a new shot protects against the disease, but canβt make it fast enough to stop the huge outbreak sweeping Latin America.
Demonstrators at a small rally led by Womenβs March Tucson on Tuesday in Tucson, Ariz., after the Arizona Supreme Court revived a law dating to 1864 that bans abortion in virtually all instances.
Five European countries have recently restricted hormone treatments for adolescents with gender distress. They have not banned the care, unlike many U.S. states.
The Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service in London, which until recently was the National Health Serviceβs sole youth gender clinic. In 2018, 10 clinicians there complained that they felt pressure to quickly approve children for puberty blockers.
Scientists reviewed 212 studies involving 12,966 individuals, finding strong evidence of health benefits in adults that engaged in touch with other humans or objects such as weighted blankets.
A nonprofit group called R.I.P. Medical Debt has relieved Americans of $11 billion in hospital bills. But that did not improve their mental health or their credit scores, a study found.
Despite the explosion in ransomware hacks like the one against Change Healthcare, regulation is spotty and few new safeguards have been proposed to protect patient data, vulnerable hospitals and medical groups.
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