In her first large staff meeting, the new director of the CDC promised Wednesday to advocate for the agency while ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), expressed "strong concerns" about Heidi Overton, MD, PhD, as the new nominee for FDA ...

The FDA authorized the first robotic device that can independently draw patients' blood without a hands-on operator, the ...

Use of active surveillance for low- and favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer more than tripled since 2005, according ...

Leisure-time exercise was associated with lower dementia risk in a large systematic review and meta-analysis. In contrast, ...

An umbrella review in The BMJ outlined the most effective bipolar disorder therapies across age groups and phases (acute ...

The quest for a healthcare system devoid of rationing is, in economic terms, the pursuit of a mirage. While the moral imperative of medicine suggests that care should be a universal right provided ...

The New Yorker examined the sexual abuse of a famed NIH researcher who for decades brought dozens of young boys back to the U ...

The prevalence of cannabis use disorder (CUD) increased in adults from 2021 to 2024, while the prevalence of alcohol use ...

Overton attended medical school at the University of New Mexico and has a doctoral degree in clinical investigation from ...

An inpatient nephrology unit reduced hospital-acquired Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infections by 90% after ...