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This common vitamin is very important for cancer prevention

In a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland, researchers found that a good vitamin D status is beneficial both in cancer prevention...

People should proceed with caution even after vaccination

More and more Americans are becoming vaccinated against COVID-19, but headlines warn that the number of cases is rising. What’s up with that? During the past...

Many people are buying illegal opioids on the dark web

In a new study from the University of Texas, researchers found that illegal drug sales on the dark web are common, hard to detect...

Scientists find new risk factors for high odds of COVID-19 infection

In a new study from the University of Maryland, researchers found that people with type 2 diabetes and a high body mass index (BMI)...

Scientists find possible COVID-19 drugs—including several FDA-approved ones

In a new study from the University of Pennsylvania, researchers found nine potential new COVID-19 treatments, including three that are already approved by the...

Many doctors ‘overusing’ costly, riskier method to clean clogged blood vessels

In a new study from Johns Hopkins Medicine, researchers found that one method for restoring blood flow to clogged or completely blocked vessels is...

US deaths normally change less than 2% every year; in 2020, they rose nearly...

In a new study from Virginia Commonwealth University, researchers found that extended surges in the South and West in the summer and early winter...

COVID-19 survivors may need just 1 dose of two-part vaccine

In a new study from Cedars-Sinai, researchers found a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for people who previously had COVID-19 generates an immunologic...

Common high blood pressure drug may have dangerous side effects

In a recent study from Columbia University, researchers found that chlorthalidone, the guideline-recommended diuretic for lowering blood pressure, causes more serious side effects than...

Buying your own health insurance just got a lot less expensive

Last month, hundreds of millions of Americans got a cash infusion from the government as part of the American Rescue Plan. But starting this month,...