A Colonoscopy Alternative Comes Home
The Task Force has found several kinds of screening tests effective, but the ones used most for people at ...
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Feds Authorize $3 Billion to Boost Vaccine Rollout
Jan. 11, 2021 – The CDC will send $3 billion to the states to boost a lagging national ...
Healthier 2021: Laura Is Finding Motivation in Her ‘Why’
This post appears as part of our Healthier 2021 series, in which we follow three WebMD team ...
Grandkids Often a COVID Conundrum for Families
Jan. 11, 2021 -- The pandemic has revealed a new generational divide that has baby boomers and their ...
Alzheimer’s Drug Shows Promise in Small Trial
In a small clinical trial, an experimental Alzheimer’s drug slowed the rate at which patients lost the ability to ...
How the Right Foods May Lead to a Healthier Gut, and Better Health
Scientists know that the trillions of bacteria and other microbes that live in our guts play an important role ...
How mRNA Technology Could Upend the Drug Industry
“No!” The doctor snapped. “Look at me!” I had been staring her in the eyes, as she had ordered, ...
For Health Care Workers, The Pandemic Is Fueling Renewed Interest In Unions
Nurses at Albany Medical Center picketed on Dec.1, asking for more personal protective equipment. They say they're having to ...
‘We Don’t Feel Forgotten At All’: Alaska Fires Up COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Sarah Lind, a nurse with Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp., Southwest Alaska's tribal health care provider, vaccinates James Evan in December, ...
An Appreciation for Vaccines, and How Far They Have Come
The first pertussis vaccines were developed and tested in the 1920s and 1930s and were in universal use by ...