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Though tobacco use is declining among adults in the U.S., cannabis use is increasing. Laws and policies regulating the use of tobacco and cannabis are also moving in different directions. Tobacco policies are becoming more…

Elana Gotkine MONDAY, July 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Outcomes are encouraging for the first three living kidney donors with HIV, according to research published online July 24 in The Lancet…

Physician’s Briefing Staff THURSDAY, July 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It is rare for someone with HIV to go into remission and be considered "cured," but a European man may be the sixth to do…

Exton, Pennsylvania, July 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Data from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) suggests just over seventy percent of American adults are overweight, including 40% being clinically obese.   Nearly…

A unique collaborative study on hospital clinician wellbeing by teams at 60 of the nation's best hospitals, defined by Magnet Hospital Recognition, was published today in JAMA Health Forum. The study found that physicians and nurses, even…

HINGHAM, Mass., July 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Microbot Medical Inc. (Nasdaq: MBOT), the developer of the LIBERTY® Robotic Surgical System, the first single-use endovascular robotic surgical system, today announced that Irene…

Elana Gotkine MONDAY, July 10, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The characteristics of injury differ for people experiencing homelessness (PEH), and they have increased odds of hospital admission,…

Physician’s Briefing Staff TUESDAY, June 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Public health officials are warning doctors, especially those in southern states, to be on the lookout for local spread of…

Lori Solomon WEDNESDAY, June 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Humor therapy may lessen symptoms of depression and anxiety, according to a review published online June 21 in Brain and…

Elana Gotkine MONDAY, June 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Time-restricted eating (TRE) is more effective for weight loss than control, but is no more effective than calorie restriction (CR),…