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Technology that was supposed to democratize health information may instead be creating new hierarchies of who gets to know ...

Currently the true number of pregnant and postpartum detention is largely unknown. The Women’s Refugee Commission states ...

Nearly a third of families with children receiving chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)—the most common ...

The update addresses major gaps in basic insurance, sharply reducing costs for drugs used to treat triple-negative breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, and other serious conditions.

BEIJING -- The National Healthcare Security Administration said Monday that the coverage of China's basic medical insurance is stabilized at over 95 percent and that the quality of the system had ...

TOKYO -- The Nobel Prize shared by Osaka University professor Shimon Sakaguchi for the discovery of regulatory T-cells is boosting joint research partner Chugai Pharmaceutical, as investors hope the ...

Many winners of the annual Lasker Awards have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or other fields. Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University was honored for her 55-year career investigating how ...

Harnessing the power of mRNA, a naturally occurring molecule that tells the body how to make a protein, experts in the field of basic science (also known as fundamental research) at Johns Hopkins ...

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An emergency medical technician (EMT) is a medical professional who gives emergency care to people outside of or on the way to the hospital. They can give basic medical and first-aid care until a ...

More than two years after the world was blighted by the outbreak of Covid-19, North Korea finally declared it had recorded its very first case of the virus. In reality, North Koreans had been ...