DACA recipients will no longer be eligible for ACA health coverage

Evidence suggests as many as 40% of adults with cancer turn to marijuana—more properly known as cannabis—to manage symptoms like pain, nausea and anxiety, and many want guidance from their physicians. Yet a new national study led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) finds that most oncologists-in-training, or fellows, feel underprepared to unprepared to manage this increasingly common aspect of their patients' care.

A Monash University-led study into commercially available foods for infants and young children has found them to be promoted as low-cost and "healthy," despite often not conforming to nutritional guidelines.

Harvard Medical School investigators have discovered that U.S. surgeons have a cancer mortality rate more than two times that of nonsurgeon physicians and around 20% higher than most non-physician workers. While still maintaining overall lower than non-physician death rates, the unexpectedly high cancer rates might shed light on work-related risks.

As summer temperatures soar and school sports programs ramp up conditioning practices, heat-related illnesses like dehydration, heat exhaustion, and even heat stroke become serious concerns—especially for student-athletes. According to Ian Klein, an exercise physiologist and associate professor at OHIO, understanding how the body reacts to extreme heat and how to prepare for it is critical to preventing dangerous health outcomes.

Older Coloradans have mostly recovered from a pandemic-era increase in death rates, but middle-aged people continue to die younger than expected, mostly from overdoses.

A surprising new drug combo—including a compound found in chocolate—has outperformed Tamiflu in fighting the flu, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A Georgia woman declared brain-dead and kept on life support for more than three months because she was pregnant was removed from a ventilator in June and died, days after doctors delivered her 1-pound, 13-ounce baby by emergency cesarean section. The baby is in the neonatal intensive care unit.

With heat advisories blanketing the eastern half of the U.S., air conditioners are once again working over time as essential resources to keep millions cool. But they're unevenly distributed: Many poor households are unable to afford them.

Wildfire smoke has been easy to spot in Minnesota this week, coating the Twin Cities in a brownish haze that obscured the downtown skylines. But experts in lung health are more concerned about the particles you can't see.

New Hampshire has become the first state to require doctors and medical staff to sterilize patients who request it.

There are relatively large regional differences in Sweden in the proportion of newborns receiving antibiotics for suspected sepsis, according to a study from the University of Gothenburg. The researchers want to call attention to overuse as well as highlight good examples.

Twenty-eight-year-old Michaela Bonner has been working 12-hour shifts as an emergency medical technician in Norfolk, Virginia, for the past four years, while attending and paying for college to finish her prerequisites for medical school.

Novel imaging research indicates that young adults with a higher genetic risk for depression showed less brain activity in several areas when responding to rewards and punishments. The study also uncovered notable differences between men and women.

People living in racially and economically segregated neighborhoods are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced-stage breast and cervical cancer, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Apellis Pharmaceuticals' Empaveli (pegcetacoplan) as the first treatment for C3 glomerulopathy (C3G) or primary immune complex membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (IC-MPGN).

A simple information sheet may help prevent harms caused by prenatal alcohol exposure. A study just published in Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research found that women who reviewed a flyer with clear, concise information about alcohol use during pregnancy changed their attitudes and increased their understanding of the risks of, and health recommendations about, drinking during pregnancy.

Hazardous and binge drinking are becoming more prevalent in older people, most notably women, according to a large study of alcohol use and aging in two Nordic countries that may illuminate similar trends in other Western populations.

Using a custom-built tool to analyze the electrical activity from neurons, researchers at Brown University have identified a brain-based biomarker that could be used to predict whether mild cognitive impairment will develop into Alzheimer's disease.