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Early prenatal care improves the chances of a healthy pregnancy and baby, but a new federal report shows it's been on the decline. The share of U.S. births to women who began prenatal care in the ...

After NIH director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, was tapped to lead CDC as acting director, Lucky Tran, PhD, deemed the move "unacceptable," alleging Bhattacharya has spent his career undermining ...

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Stereotactic radiation improved key quality-of-life outcomes among patients with multiple brain metastases compared with hippocampal-avoidance whole-brain radiation (HA-WBRT), a phase III randomized ...

Interval colorectal cancers (CRCs) were lower when patients' endoscopists had a better sessile serrated lesion detection rate on screening colonoscopies, a large retrospective cohort study showed. ( ...

Mirlande Ciprien, RN, PhD, the neonatal intensive care nurse manager who was killed at her home in Texas last weekend, was described as an "amazing soul " who had recently earned her PhD in nursing.