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You’re having chest pain, or you fear that your spouse is having a stroke—and you’re thinking of just driving to a hospital instead of calling 911.

The Virginia Department of Health confirmed the state’s first measles case of 2025 in a Saturday announcement.

At least two cases of listeria have been linked to ice cream in the Baltimore metro area, prompting health and safety concerns.

Texas health officials reported 36 new measles cases Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases since late January to 597.

In 2023, Bret Hulick was in his second year of medical school at LECOM in Erie, analyzing the case of a 24-year-old colon cancer patient. The patient had to choose between an established therapy with a high likelihood of unwanted side effects or a newer experimental treatment.

A protein that stops cells from dividing in response to damage or stress could be a new biomarker or therapeutic target for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), according to research published in The FASEB Journal.

Statistics suggest that the size of families in many countries is shrinking and a growing number of parents worldwide either willingly or unwillingly end up only having one child. While many psychology studies have explored the differences between individuals who have siblings and those who don’t, the effects of not having any brothers or sisters on people’s brains and behavior are not yet fully understood.

Most parents agree that talking to their kids about puberty is important—but when and how to start the conversation is often less clear, a new national poll suggests.

Older adults with cancer respond just as well as younger patients to immune checkpoint inhibitors despite age-related immune system differences, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, and the Johns Hopkins Convergence Institute.

Susan de Meyer’s horses have different effects on different children. Hyperactive kids learn to be a little quieter around them while nonverbal children are moved to communicate and to bond with them.