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Drug store CVS now carries cheaper option to EpiPen.

CDC official is hopeful they can beat C diff infection.

The frequency of hypoglycemic episodes affects carotid atherosclerosis in patients with type 1 diabetes.

Break out the blue paint for women with higher preconception blood pressure.

Annual rate of ocular inflammatory flares fell from 200 to 49 per 100 patients.

3D treatment helped patients to attain SVR in less than 12 weeks.

Patients using fidaxomicin for C diff infection experienced no recurrences..

Heart disease risk factors, not occupation, were linked to shoulder pain.

President-Elect Donald Trump plans to allow Medicare to bid on drugs.

The only consensus seems to be that walking is good for arthritis.

The CDC’s PrEP guidelines might not be specific enough.

Researchers find gap in antioxidant enzymes between AMD patients and controls.

Donald Trump believes vaccines cause autism.

Quantitative EEG is not the way to diagnose ADHD, guidelines say.

Even after eradicating hepatitis C with direct-acting antivirals, high frequency of Tregs could pose complications.

Public health initiatives backed by federal spending have dramatically reduced end-stage renal disease related to diabetes in Native Americans.

Multiple sclerosis patients appear to be less likely to get cancer, possibly because of drugs they take to modify the symptoms of MS.

It might be time to retire the belief that bad weather is hurting joint pain even more.

Researchers, for the first time, used the lyophilized non-frozen oral capsule RBX7455 to treat a patient with recurrent Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection.

Whether injected monthly or according to a TREX regimen, ranibizumab did not have a statistically significant effect on the development of new macular atrophy in eyes with neovascular AMD.

Merck just got $2.54 billion richer with the ruling of a federal jury.

Should the VA let nurse-anesthetists practice without direct physician supervision?

Daniel Neides, MD, is in hot water about anti-vaccine comments he made on the Cleveland Clinic's blog.

A trip to the beauty salon could result in exposure to dangerous blood-borne viruses.

The FDA approved a morphine sulfate extended-release tablet (Arymo ER/Egalet) to treat severe pain needing “daily, around-the-clock, long-term opioid treatment".

Could cyber-terorrists turn a cardiac pacemaker into a weapon? It sounded like fiction until the FDA and a device maker today announced that they had fixed a popular device precisely to prevent that from happening.

For two decades, patients with genital herpes have only had so many treatment options. But a new option could be added.

A biosimilar to the world's biggest-selling drug performed well alongside it, according to top-line results announced recently.

Researchers suspect cognitive training can prevent the development attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in infants.

Heartburn drugs like Prilosec and Nexium might alleviate acid reflux, but could raise the risk of severe stomach infections.