President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Caregiver adverse childhood experiences were related to pediatric health outcomes, such as antibiotic prescribing and time to first infection-related clinical encounter.

Fasting shows benefits compared with eating meals or snacks at night. HealthDay News — Fasting at night prevents impairments in glucose tolerance among simulated night-shift work, according to a study ...

No significant changes seen in neonatal mortality or postneonatal mortality rate. HealthDay News — The U.S. infant mortality rate did not change from 2022 to 2023 and was 5.61 per 1,000 live births in ...

Ravi B Parikh, MD, MPP discusses the current and future use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the greater US health care system. For decades, traditional pathology approaches have played an integral ...

Hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and smoking were more strongly associated with severe stroke than nonsevere stroke. HealthDay News — Hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and smoking are more strongly ...

The prevalence of psychiatric comorbidities was similar between female patients with and without disorders of sex development. Female patients with and without disorders of sex development have ...

The rates of ASD were 4.9% with daily cannabis use, 4.7% with weekly cannabis use, 3.5% with monthly cannabis use or less, and 4.6% with unknown cannabis use frequency. Use of cannabis in early ...

The supply of health care professionals available to provide HIV care is expected to continue to decline over the next 5 years.

Direct and indirect psychotherapy interventions significantly reduce the severity of suicidal ideation, and may prove useful tools for clinicians.

Prevalence of any and heavy alcohol use was increased in 2020 vs 2018, and the increases were sustained in 2022. HealthDay News — The prevalence of any alcohol use and heavy alcohol use was higher in ...

During July 2019 to June 2023, there was an increase in overdose deaths with ketamine detected, according to research published.