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High-dose anticoagulation can reduce deaths by 30 percent and intubations by 25 percent in hospitalized COVID-19 patients who are not critically ill when compared to the standard treatment, which is low-dose anticoagulation. These are the significant findings from the large-scale international “FREEDOM” trial, led by Valentin Fuster, MD, Ph.D., President of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician-in-Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital, and General Director of the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC).

The performance characteristics of prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography improves with increasing prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level. This, coupled with insurance approval concerns if applied for too early, causes some physicians to delay post-radical prostatectomy salvage radiation therapy (sRT) until well after PSA failure, typically at PSA levels exceeding 0.30 ng/ml.

Half the world will be overweight by 2035, a health group warns.

You toss, you turn, you can’t fall asleep.

For three years, Bertha Embriz of San Francisco has gone without health insurance, skipping annual wellness exams and recently tolerating a broken molar by trying not to chew with it. As an immigrant without legal status, the 58-year-old unpaid caregiver knew that California’s Medicaid program was closed to her.

The burden of alopecia areata (AA) is considerable in the United States, with people of color, especially Asians, disproportionately affected, according to a study published online March 1 in JAMA Dermatology.

Since being first introduced into Australia in 1953 improve dental health, water fluoridation has been shown to reduce tooth decay by 26–44% in children and adolescents and by 27% in adults.

In the United States, one person dies every 34 seconds from cardiovascular disease, making it the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups. While medical advances prompted steady declines in cardiovascular mortality throughout the second half of the 20th century, that progress has stalled over the past decade.

Lung cancer patients with moderate to severe depression are two to three times more likely to have inflammation levels that predict poor survival rates, a new study found.

A new report by the World Obesity Federation (WOF) has said more than half of the world’s population will be obese or overweight by 2035 if significant action isn’t taken. The federation’s 2023 atlas also predicted that childhood obesity levels could more than double over the next 12 years to around 208 million boys and 175 million girls.