(HealthDay News) — Adolescents whose parents had two or more opioid prescriptions have a more than doubled risk for persistent opioid use, according to a study published online Oct. 23 in PLOS ...

Michael Liu, M.D., from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study to examine the percentage of U.S. health care professionals (HCPs) sponsored ...

The Interaktor app was well-received by patients undergoing radiotherapy for prostate cancer seeking to monitor and manage their symptoms.The effectiveness of the Interaktor app was evaluated in a ...

(HealthDay News) — Type 2 diabetes (T2D) in young children is tied to social and environmental factors, according to a study published online Sept. 18 in Pediatric Research.

(HealthDay News) — Bedside legal assistance may be one solution for addressing legal needs of patients recovering from violent injuries, according to a study published online Oct. 16 in JAMA Network ...

Guidance enhancement using 3D augmented reality and artificial intelligence technologies have recently been introduced for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

These findings underscore the limitations of relying on proteinuria alone to assess LN treatment success and demonstrate the clinical utility of biomarker-guided risk stratification.

Developers of biosimilars -- medicines that are near-identical copies of biologic drugs -- will no longer be required to conduct clinical trials to prove effectiveness.

In a novel ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation, investigators converted the deceased donor kidney’s blood type.

(HealthDay News) — Two mechanisms of structural and functional retinal impairment based on papilledema severity have been identified among patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), ...

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) shortages and the fragile BCG supply chain have created a bladder cancer treatment vacuum.

For patients with cardiac arrest and a shockable rhythm, automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in private homes improve outcomes but cannot be considered cost-effective at current pricing, ...