More than four times as many businesses and clinics than were identified in 2016 are selling stem cell products not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and lack convincing evidence of safety and efficacy, according to a five-year study conducted by University of California, Irvine Program in Public Health professor of health, society […]

Rachel J. Kearns, M.D., from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, and colleagues used Scottish National Health Service hospital administrative data to identify 435,281 singleton live births in Scotland (2007 through 2016), with follow-up during the first 1,000 days of life. The researchers reported that 21.7 percent of births had labor epidural, which […]

Many people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) experience unfavorable physical and psychological effects of their condition. Researchers at the American Heart Association found some patients with HCM have lengthy diagnosis journeys and, once diagnosed, face anxiety and necessary modifications to their everyday routines. Patients could benefit from expanded clinician recognition of HCM and amplified patient education […]