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,...
Why processed foods trigger chronic kidney disease
In a new study, researchers found that a diet high in processed foods brings on the leaky gut syndrome, which in turn increases the...
These daily food directly linked to strong cancer risk
In a recent study published in BMC Medicine, researchers found a direct link between meat and dairy diets and the development of antibodies in the blood that...