<ul><li>Researchers warn about new outbreak of Zika virus.</li><li>In 2016, Zika virus declared global medical emergency.</li><li>It is most dangerous for babies in womb causing them to have damaged … [+1194 chars]
A 20-year-old man was hospitalised after a freak accident while masturbating - in a first case of its kind. The Swiss patient, who has not been named, suffered a rare lung injury normally caused by… [+3943 chars]
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the pathogen responsible for the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The SARS-CoV-2 infection has a wide range… [+9286 chars]
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The vast majority of children and young people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs)… [+6763 chars]
A 19th century rural Dutch village had unusually low rates of breastfeeding, likely because mothers were busy working, according to a study published April 13, 2022 in the open-access journal PLOS ON… [+2122 chars]
On the long list of skin things that look like acne but actually aren't: fungal acne (it's actually folliculitis), butt acne (also, probably, folliculitis), and, of course, milia. To the untrained ey… [+5653 chars]
The estimated cost of multiple sclerosis (MS) reached $85.4 billion in 2019 in the United States, according to a new report published in the April 13, 2022, online issue of Neurology®, the medical jo… [+3793 chars]
High risk human papillomavirus infection reveals (hrHPV) to be a strong determinant of cervical cancer prognosis over 15 years after diagnosis. Investigators observed a 43% reduction in excess mortal… [+3529 chars]
SINGAPORE - Recipients of the Sinovac-CoronaVac vaccine are five times more likely to experience severe Covid-19 symptoms when they are infected than those who had the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty vacci… [+2436 chars]
Positive lymph node status is not a reliable indicator of the need for adjunctive chemotherapy, and sentinel node biopsy may not be helpful in older women with certain low-risk breast cancers, accord… [+1806 chars]
New research has identified a pair of independent risk factors for recurrent clostridium difficile infections (CDI) in prophylactic probiotics and nasogastric feeding tube use. A team, led by Yuki Y… [+3145 chars]
A healthy lifestyle was tied to a longer life but the extra years did not mean more time living with Alzheimer's dementia, a prospective study showed. People who had four or five healthy lifestyle f… [+4330 chars]
