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"My son was diagnosed with congenital CMV, a virus that can cause hearing loss. As part of this diagnosis, he will be required to have routine hearing tests every few months until he is 10 years old. I reached out to you because I wanted to know why my son's hearing tests weren't covered by our insurance and why we needed to pay for it," said Anna Deutscher, 29, from Minnesota, writing about her infant son, Beckham.
By many measures, coronavirus is a thing of the past.
Microbes inside cancerous tumors can influence the spread of disease and the effectiveness of treatment. Those roles make them appealing targets for new therapies and offer ways to better predict risk. Tumor microbiota-based tools could help identify high-risk patients and people most susceptible to metastases, and possibly be used to improve prognosis tools, report a group of microbiologists at Nankai University in Tianjin, China.
Dr. Thimo Ruethers, who is based at James Cook University's Tropical Future Institute in Singapore and serves as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Townsville, was a co-investigator of the study conducted at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne.
The risk of mosquito-borne West Nile virus is increasing amid a hot and rainy summer season, the Minnesota Department of Health warned this week.
Remembering past events in minute detail, revisiting them methodically, and reliving past emotions—this is the peculiarity of people with an exceptional memory of their own lives, known as autobiographical hypermnesia, or hyperthymesia. This fascinating condition remains poorly understood, and each new case contributes to our understanding.
A recent survey commissioned by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC–James) focused on Americans' awareness of the signs and symptoms of prostate cancer. The survey results show most people (80%) don't know early-stage prostate cancer often presents with no physical symptoms, typically only diagnosed with a blood test.
Both the Nail Psoriasis Severity Index (NAPSI) and the Nijmegen-Nail Psoriasis Activity Index Tool (N-NAIL) provide accurate cutoffs for diagnosing nail psoriasis, with better accuracy seen for the N-NAIL, according to a study published online in the International Journal of Dermatology.
U.S. regulators have approved updated versions of the COVID vaccine, though a much smaller group of people will be eligible to receive them this fall after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at the shots earlier this year.
During childhood and adolescence, our brain goes through a lot of changes. But studying those changes in juvenile mice is challenging because scientists don't have a way to repeatedly image the same animal's neural pathways as they grow.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent letters to health care providers alerting them to the importance of following manufacturer instructions for the safe use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) devices.
For women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), pregnancy can be an uncertain time due to limited clinical data about how IBD medications impact pregnancy outcomes and infants who have been exposed to IBD medications in utero.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder that causes progressive memory loss and a decline in mental (i.e., cognitive) abilities. Statistics suggest that between 500,000 and 900,000 people are diagnosed with this disease every year, while several hundreds of thousands experience dementia or other aging-related cognitive decline.
SHEA is deeply disappointed by the sudden departure of the CDC director so soon after her confirmation, at a time when the agency most needs stability and authority to carry out its vital mission of protecting the health and safety of all Americans.
The most comprehensive quantitative review of research into complementary and alternative treatments for autism has found no strong evidence to support their use, and that the safety of these treatments was rarely assessed.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common and deadly forms of cancer worldwide. A key reason for its high death toll is that it often goes undetected until it reaches an advanced stage.
The Trump administration confirmed Wednesday it had fired the head of the top US public health agency after she refused to step down during a standoff with vaccine skeptic Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
It's well known that alcohol misuse can harm not only drinkers themselves but also those around them. Now, a new report in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs shows that, among college students, harms such as lower grades, mental distress and even suicidal thoughts are linked to being exposed to a drinker's poor behavior.
Inspired by an urgent need to improve timely defibrillation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in dense urban settings, a team of investigators developed a simulation that explored the potential of leveraging an existing food delivery network in Taipei City, Taiwan, to help address this challenge.