In a recent review published in the Virology Journal, researchers summarized severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections among children pre-and post the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron variants of concern (VOCs). Study: SARS-CoV-2 infection in pediatric population before and during the Delta (B.1.617.2) and Omicron (B.1.1.529) variants era. Image Credit: FamVeld/Shutterstock The […]

This Morning: Early menopause sufferer explains symptoms We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Women can access oestrogen treatment for vaginal dryness […]

(Reuters) – Akero Therapeutics Inc said on Tuesday its lead experimental drug met the main goal of a mid-stage study testing it as a treatment for a type of fatty liver disease that currently has no approved medicine on the market. The positive data, which needs to be recreated in larger late-stage trials for the […]

The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million grant to medicinal chemistry and computational biology researchers at the University of Kansas and the University of Chicago focused on addressing a long-unresolved problem in biomedical research -; finding molecules able to target the "undruggable proteome." Jingxin Wang, assistant professor of medicinal chemistry at KU, applied […]

Saturday Kitchen Live: Ed Balls discusses his mother's dementia We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info According to a review by University […]

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concludes that people aged 40 to 75 years at high risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) should receive statins. This finding forms the basis of a final recommendation statement published in the Aug. 23/30 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Roger Chou, M.D., from the Oregon […]

Skin cancer: Dr Chris outlines the signs of a melanoma We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info His first skin cancer diagnosis […]

CVS Health announced on September 5 that it will acquire Dallas-based Signify Health, a network of 10,000 clinicians across 50 states with more than 50 health plan clients, including CVS’s Aetna division, for $8 billion. In order to further CVS’s healthcare services strategy, the acquisition of Signify Health adds clinicians that assess patients at home. […]

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The levels of SARS-CoV-2 antigen in the blood of hospitalized COVID-19 patients appear to line up with how severe the illness is and other clinical outcomes, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Antigens are molecules […]

A third person died this week in Argentina from pneumonia of unknown origin, local health authorities said on Thursday. Nine people in northwestern Tucuman province have been infected by the mysterious respiratory illness, including eight medical staff at the same private clinic, and three have died since Monday, Tucuman health minister Luis Medina Ruiz told […]