Family Instability, Poverty & Crowded Housing, and Poverty & Parental Separation clusters linked to increased risk
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Senate Democrats still haven't shored up the 10 Republicans they need to pass the bill, but they're optimistic that amendments will draw more support.
The tax agency got $15 million in the Inflation Reduction Act to study making its own free digital tax-filing platform, long a priority for Democrats.
The company will only offer the service, also known as “advanced provision,” in US states where it’s licensed to operate — California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine and New Mexico — all of which currently allow abortion.
Top scientists from leading academic centers are banding together to answer a key question about the root cause of long COVID - whether fragments of the coronavirus persist in the tissues of some individuals.
New research shows that diagnoses provided during a video-based telehealth visit matched the in-person reference standard diagnoses in 86.9 percent of cases.
A requirement under the U.S. law known as Obamacare that private insurance plans cover drugs that prevent HIV infection at no cost to patients violates both federal law and the Constitution, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday, siding with conservative lawyers who had challenged the measure on religious grounds.
Two randomized trials left researchers 'extremely disappointed'
People who said they were stressed, anxious, lonely, depressed or worried about Covid before getting infected had a higher risk of long Covid symptoms.
The legislation is part of a broader nationwide shift in drug policy that involves creating protections for marijuana users.
NEW DELHI (AP) — India and China have cleared a new approach in COVID-19 vaccination — two needle-free options, one a squirt in the nose and the other inhaled through the mouth. Regulators in India authorized Bharat Biotech's nasal version on Tuesday as an option for people who haven't yet been vaccinated.
in a study (9/6) published in JAMA Neurology, researchers found that "people between the ages of 40 and 79 who took 9,826 steps per day were 50% less likely to develop dementia within seven years," and that "people who walked...at a pace over 40 steps a minute...were able to cut their risk of dementia by 57% with just 6,315 steps a day." Those who walked "at a very brisk pace of 112 steps per minute for 30 minutes a day" had the largest reduction in dementia risk.
To better understand how microbes affect our health, researchers combined 119 species of bacteria naturally found in the human body.
New AAMC guidelines on diversity and equity are a much-needed addition to medical education. "When data demonstrate the glaring inequities in healthcare, there should be no argument about the need to include these data in medical training."
The Developing and Nationalizing Key (DANK) Cannabis Research Act -- would set a federal marijuana research agenda and create a designation for universities to carry out cannabis studies with federal grant money, and protect them against federal sanctions for obtaining marijuana from state-legal dispensaries for study purposes.
The growing worries about violence have prompted raging debate inside Twitter over whether the Libs of TikTok account should be suspended.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said this week that rape victims in his state can take Plan B, a pregnancy-preventing emergency contraceptive known as a "morning-after pill."
The U.S. government will provide abortion services for the first time ever to veterans in cases of rape or incest, or when the pregnancy puts the life of the woman at risk, even in states that have banned or restricted the practice, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said on Friday.