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Citing health hazards to patients and workers, the US Food and Drug Administration has issued a final rule banning the use of powdered exam gloves and surgical gloves. It will take effect January 19, 2017.

A new drug for atopic dermatitis got FDA approval.

After a review of existing studies, the FDA today sent out a warning that surgery lasting three hours or more poses a threat of brain or other neurological damage in babies, fetuses, and toddlers.

Responding to problems with long delays in getting care at Veterans Affairs facilities, the agency announced today it would expand the duties of some advanced practice nurses, but not of nurse-anesthetists. The American Medical Association was quick to respond.

The American Academy of HIV Medicine in Washington, DC. has signed on as a "strategic partner" with MD Magazine and its sister publication Contagion.

Results of a 10-year study on bladder cancer risk with pioglitazone might be better than the five-year results led the US Food and Drug Administration to re-affirm that the danger is real--though slightly less than the preliminary data showed.

Sitagliptin tablets proved more convenient and equally safe and effective as insulin injections in achieving glycemic control for people with diabetes admitted to hospitals for medical care or surgery, a five-center study found.

Though all obese women are treated as though they are at high risk of getting diabetes during pregnancy, that's not true. Only a quarter of them do. A UK team has figured out how to assess risk.

A retrospective analysis of nutrition studies showed magnesium can reduce heart failure and diabetes risk. The key is dosage, a team found.

The latest tallies on US life expectancy show its down a bit.

Empagliflozin was approved to reduce heart and stroke risk in patients with diabetes.

Donald Trump's pick of Tom Price, MD, to head Health and Human Services has enraged some groups, troubled others, and made the American Medical Association happy.

Babies exposed to Zika virus in utero can look normal at birth but develop microcephaly months later as their head growth decelerates, the CDC reports.

Healthcare workers might be expected to have the facts on HIV transmission rates. A study showed that at a Kansas tertiary care hospital, more than a quarter of workers who answered a survey harbored misconceptions.

Depression is associated with cardiac risk factors in HIV-positive people. But does depression make these HIV patients more likely to die?

What happens to patients who walk away from care at their HIV clinic? A Pennsylvania team found which ones were most likely to die.

Among a large sample of Veterans Affairs health care patients with peripheral artery disease, researchers found African Americans were 43% more likely to lose a limb to amputation--and it is likely not because of socioeconomic or behavioral factors.

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans 11 years ago. A physician and colleagues documented "Post Katrina Stress Disorder" tells how he came to do the study, and what the disaster was like for him.

If statins are good and PCSK9 inhibitors are better, how good will a combination be? Researchers reported today in a study called GLAGOV.

A PCSK9 inhibitor that reduces cholesterol by RNA interference instead of the monoclonal antibody approach appears effective and holds the promise of fewer injections and lower cost, researchers said today.

Researchers who evaluated adverse events in a large sample of patients taking NSAIDs for arthritis came to a surprising conclusion: celecoxib is the safest of three drugs studied.

Left ventricular assist devices are usually associated with keeping patients alive while they wait for a heart transplant. Using the devices with aggressive drug therapy enabled some patients to recover heart function and forgo the pumps.

An analysis of thousands of patients in Germany taken from a national registry found interventional procedures more dangerous than surgery for severe symptomatic aortic valve stenosis. But there may have been confounding factors.

A study comparing whether certain heart patients did better with bilateral arterial grafts than single grafts had the surprising result of finding no benefit at five years.

Systemic atherosclerosis causes peripheral artery disease, and these patients are at risk of cardiovascular death and stroke.

AHA President Steven Houser opens the AHA Scientific Sessions 2016 with a moving talk on his father's premature death from heart disease.

Patients taken statins who survived heart attacks lived longer than those who did not take the drugs, a Taiwan research team found.

Using marijuana may double the risk of stress cardiomyopathy, researchers found.

The mysterious sudden deaths of apparently healthy people, some young and engaged in sports, could be explained by mutations uncovered by a Canada research team.

Being able to perform CPR matters a lot when it comes to saving children who experience a sudden out-of-hospital arrest.