THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 -- Dr. Anthony Fauci, who helped Americans navigate the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic, will reflect on his career in a memoir set for release this summer. His publisher, Viking, announced that the book, titled...
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024 -- The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention is investigating an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness aboard a luxury cruise ship that sailed out of San Francisco on Wednesday. More than 150 people on the Queen...
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 -- Preliminary data from the largest survey examining the quality of life for transgender and nonbinary Americans show they suffer high levels of unemployment and harassment. In the early findings, released Wednesday, the...
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 -- People of color in the United States lose more potential years of life to murder and suicide than whites, a new study concludes. On average, Hispanic, Asian and Black homicide victims lose an average 12, eight and four...
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 -- Adding blood thinners to clot-busting drugs does not improve outcomes for stroke patients, a new study claims. Doctors had hoped that combining the two types of medications would improve treatment of stroke, as a similar...
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 -- No one's brain is as sharp at 60 as it was at 20. However, new research supports the notion that folk's brains can make subtle adjustments with age to compensate for that decline. A team of British researchers has found...
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 -- Two studies that warned of the harms of the abortion pill have been retracted by the journals' publisher over flaws in the data and conflicts of interest among the researchers. Complicating matters even further, the papers...
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 -- It was the ancient Greeks who first divided the 20-foot length of the small intestine into three parts: The duodenum, the jejunum and the ileum. However, the organ may finally be ready for an update: U.S. researchers say...
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 -- Reducing homelessness by 25% could save nearly 2,000 lives lost each year to opioid overdoses, a new study estimates. It also could save 850 lives from alcohol poisoning and 540 from cocaine overdoses, researchers from the...
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 -- The position in bed of stroke victims' heads could influence how well they’ll fare in upcoming surgery to remove a blood clot from their brain, a new study finds. Hospital beds for stroke patients are typically set...
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2023 -- Could drugs that give a boost to men's sexual performance help them stave off Alzheimer's disease? That's the main finding from a study suggesting that erectile dysfunction meds like Cialis, Levitra and Viagra might lower...
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 -- CPR can save lives, but its ability to restore heart function goes from slim to none in a shockingly short time, a new study finds. How short? A person’s chance of surviving cardiac arrest while receiving CPR...
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 -- A doctor or nurse might be the only person capable of convincing a vaccine-hesitant person to get the COVID jab, a new study shows. Those who trust the medical profession are most likely to get vaccinated against COVID,...