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Study finds health care provider stigma toward substance use disorder varies sharply by condition and provider

A new national study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, with colleagues at the University of Miami ...

How our brains are drawn to and spot faces everywhere

If you have ever spotted faces or human-like expressions in everyday objects, you may have experienced the phenomenon of face pareidolia. Now, a new study by the University of Surrey has looked into ...

Study finds stopping HRT leads to a period of higher risk of bone fracture for most women

A new study has found that the bone fracture protection women get from menopausal hormone therapy (MHT, also known as HRT) ...

Rethink the 10,000-a-day step goal; study suggests fewer steps are just as effective

A study led by the University of Sydney suggests that walking 7,000 steps a day offers similar health benefits to walking ...

Many high street health tests are unfit-for-purpose and need greater regulation, warn experts

Many self-tests available on the UK high street are unfit-for-purpose and need much greater regulation to ensure they are ...

Standardization needed for dialysis initiation in pregnancy

The initiation of dialysis in women with chronic kidney disease during pregnancy varies by clinical practice, signaling a ...

Study finds ivermectin lowers malaria infection rates when added to existing control methods

Ivermectin administered to the whole population significantly reduces malaria transmission, offering new hope in the fight ...

More than 110,000 Rich's ice cream bars recalled due to listeria risk

More than 100,000 Rich's Ice Cream Co. bars have been recalled due to possible listeria contamination. The affected ice cream ...

High-tech monitoring during heart surgery doesn't lower risk of complications

An international, multi-site clinical study led by an Indiana University School of Medicine researcher and anesthesiologist ...

An X chromosome switch offers hope for girls with Rett syndrome

Researchers led by UC Davis Health scientist Sanchita Bhatnagar have developed a promising gene therapy that could treat Rett ...

Allogeneic HCT feasible in older patients with myelodysplastic syndrome

Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) is feasible in older patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), ...

FDA picks George Tidmarsh to head Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has appointed George Francis Tidmarsh, M.D., Ph.D., as director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).