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Pfizer is expanding its humanitarian assistance program by making the pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar 13 more reachable for humanitarian groups. The initiative follows company policy for emergency settings and for people in...

The way constipation is diagnosed and treated could impact the overall health of patients. A new study has found a link between constipation and the likelihood to suffer from kidney disease or kidney failure.

Girls and boys have different reactions to PTSD. A new study suggests thatt gender plays an important role in understanding the way trauma has affected the brains of young people, which could improve differentiated treat...

The general consensus is that screen time should be limited for children. For kids with a lazy eye, however, spending time with a specialized iPad game could help in improving their vision.

Hotlines in charge of suicide prevention recorded abnormal spikes in phone calls and text messages following Donald Trump's presidential victory. Among the groups who were most active in this concern, LGBT people were th...

(American College of Rheumatology) Outcomes such as pain, function, range of motion, and strength after total hip arthroplasty, or joint replacement surgery, are different for men and women, which could lead to the devel...

(American College of Rheumatology) Allopurinol, a widely used treatment for lowering serum urate levels, does not appear to increase risk of kidney deterioration in gout patients with normal or near-normal kidney functio...

(American College of Rheumatology) Rheumatoid arthritis patients who keep using their disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs prior to surgery do not face an increased risk of infection after their procedures, according to...

(The JAMA Network Journals) In a study published online by JAMA, Atif Rahman, Ph.D., of the University of Liverpool, England, and colleagues evaluated the effectiveness of a multicomponent behavioral intervention deliver...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) More than 350,000 Americans suffer from out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest each year. But only 32 percent of cardiac arrest victims nationwide receive the lifesaving int...

(American College of Rheumatology) Patients with rheumatoid arthritis who also have lung involvement often have increased mortality, but first-line therapy with rituximab may help them live longer when compared with the ...

(Mayo Clinic) A Mayo Clinic study is shedding light on why some rheumatoid arthritis patients respond poorly when treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors, part of a class of drugs called biologics.