A bipartisan Senate duo is pushing legislation that would increase screening for fentanyl in emergency rooms to identify patients suffering from overdoses.
Death rates for older adults fell by more than 20% in the 20 years before COVID-19 as chronic afflictions killed fewer people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday.
Roughly one-third of academic physicians who train and mentor new doctors in medical schools and teaching hospitals plan to quit within two years, a study has found.
House lawmakers approved legislation that would allow whole milk to be served to public school students for the first time since 2012, when it was labeled unhealthy by the Obama administration and banned from public school cafeterias.
A former professor at Harvard Medical School and founder of one of the nation's largest fertility clinics is being accused of secretly impregnating a patient in 1980 after promising the sperm would come from an anonymous donor, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.