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Mosquitoes could wreck your summer if you're not prepared and a warm, wet spring means the blood-suckers will be out in force.

American Cancer Society researchers analyzed CDC data and found that in states that were very early adopters of the Medicaid expansion, the rate of low-income adults ages 50-64 who were up to date with colon cancer screening rose from 42.3% in 2012 to 51.1% in 2016.

Morris & Dickson Co, the largest privately owned U.S. wholesale drug distributor, agreed to pay $22 million in civil penalties to resolve claims it failed to report suspicious orders of the opioids hydrocodone and oxycodone, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging a law enacted by Alabama last week that bans nearly all abortions and makes performing the procedure a felony punishable by up to 99 years in prison.

(MedPage Today) -- Comprehensive pediatric simulation curriculum

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Incyte Corp's treatment for acute graft-versus-host disease, a complication from stem cell transplant.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday proposed a rule that would roll back protections for transgender patients under Obamacare, the second rule this month the agency has put forward to allow health care providers to deny services to them.

ZURICH/NEW YORK - Swiss drugmaker Novartis won U.S. approval for its gene therapy Zolgensma for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of death in infants, and priced the one-time treatment at a record $2.125 million.

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A group of people who have liver disease also had elevated urine levels of glyphosate, the main weed-killing ingredient in Roundup, researchers found.

(MedPage Today) -- Alpelisib plus fulvestrant OK'd for advanced PIK3CA-mutated disease

(MedPage Today) -- Rule would also allow providers to decline care to patients who have had abortions

Older adults with impaired vision are more likely to have symptoms of anxiety and depression, and older adults with symptoms of anxiety or depression are more likely to develop vision impairment, according to findings from the U.S. National Health and Aging Trends Study.

(MedPage Today) -- Therapy replaces defective gene in children with spinal muscular atrophy

(MedPage Today) -- Suspicion, misinformation hurt communities (such as ulta-Orthodox Jews) already at risk

French deli meats makers are being squeezed by a surge in pork prices linked to an African swine fever epidemic that has decimated the pig herd in China, they said on Thursday, warning of potential bankruptcies in the sector.

(MedPage Today) -- Neurodegenerative, cardiovascular differences emerge

(MedPage Today) -- Third oncology-related approval for tumor treating fields technology

(MedPage Today) -- Also, Republicans blast single-payer approach to healthcare

(MedPage Today) -- Adverse events, bleeding down for some, according to two GLOBAL LEADERS substudies