MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — How do you feel about yourself and your place in society? The answer could affect not just your state of mind, but your actual health. “When you ask...

People newly infected with COVID-19 might soon have access to what essentially is Tamiflu for the novel coronavirus, a breakthrough that experts say would drastically alter the course of the ongoing pandemic. At least three contenders are...

New, better antivirals against COVID-19 are on the way. On Friday, drug giant Merck announced it would seek FDA emergency use approval for a powerful new antiviral, molnupiravir. At least two more such drugs that target the...

MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (Healthday News) — Johnson & Johnson plans to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve emergency use of a booster shot of its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine early this week. While the...

The United States has now surpassed 700,000 coronavirus deaths, as the highly contagious Delta variant continues to hold the country in its grip. America continues to have more COVID-19 deaths than any other the country in the...

Black kids and Hispanic kids with cancer fare worse than their white counterparts, a large, nationwide study finds. “This study suggests that improving health insurance coverage and access to care for children, especially those with low [socioeconomic...

Colon cancer numbers dropped dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, but that doesn’t mean fewer people have the disease. In Spain, researchers discovered a more than 40% decline in colon cancer diagnoses, leading experts to worry about the...

There’s some encouraging news for people who develop lung cancer even though they’ve never smoked. Precision drugs already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration can be used to treat 78% to 92% of their tumors,...

MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) – There has been a significant increase in COVID-related deaths in nursing homes as the highly contagious Delta spreads across the country, a new analysis shows. “While the vast majority of...

The size and shape of the blood vessels in your brain may help predict your risk of an often-fatal type of stroke, called an aneurysm, a new study finds. An aneurysm is a bulge in an artery...