FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 -- A tentative deal has been reached between Kaiser Permanente and its 75,000 health care workers following a three-day strike last week. "The frontline health care workers of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions are...
FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 -- Older Black women who use chemical hair relaxers may be more likely to develop uterine cancer, new research suggests. Specifically, postmenopausal Black women who reported using hair relaxers more than twice a year or for...
FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 -- Two years after a gene-edited pig kidney was transplanted into a monkey, researchers report the monkey is still alive. “We’re the only group in the field to comprehensively address safety and efficacy of our donor organ...
FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 -- For some older women, recurring urinary tract infections — and the antibiotics typically prescribed for them — become a fact of life, but a new study offers a novel treatment that may deliver relief. Called...
FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 -- Following a rocky rollout, more than 7 million Americans have now gotten the newly updated COVID vaccines. Unfortunately, that’s still lagging behind the number who sought booster shots last fall. For the the first updated...
FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 -- A paper that has been used in court cases to justify excessive police force was withdrawn Thursday by the American College of Emergency Physicians, a prominent doctor’s group. The paper, published in 2009, was on a...
FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 -- Extra efforts by primary care doctors to reach out to patients who need follow-up after an abnormal cancer test result leads to better results in getting that care, a new clinical trial shows. The trial involved nearly...
FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 -- The ability to detect skin cancer using artificial intelligence (AI) software has rapidly improved. New research presented Wednesday at a medical conference in Berlin shows that this AI technology now has a 100% detection...
FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 -- New research uncovers troubling trends for lung cancer in young and middle-aged women. Cancer incidence in young women is higher than it is in men, a continuing trend, and now that extends to women over age 50, reversing...
FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 -- Drawing smaller amounts of blood from patients in the intensive care unit could lead to fewer blood transfusions, according to new research. The large clinical trial in Canada found that making this small change could save...