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"Residents and visitors to areas where STRF is endemic should be educated about how to prevent soft tick bites."

Toxic fungal spores wafting around a Wisconsin neighborhood--possibly spread by recent construction in the area--sparked an outbreak of rare infections that lef

This approach allows for automatic hepatitis C virus RNA testing when an HCV antibody test is reactive in order to avoid incomplete testing.

Mean weekly cannabis-involved emergency department visits higher during 2020, 2021, 2022 than corresponding periods in 2019.

Mean weekly cannabis-involved emergency department visits higher during 2020, 2021, 2022 than corresponding periods in 2019.

Cannabis-related trips to the emergency room rose among young people during the pandemic, a study found, underscoring a broad increase in such visits in recent years.  The number of emergency room visits among those younger than 25 was higher from 2020 to 2022 than before the pandemic, the Centers for…

Patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection face barriers at every step, from diagnosis to accessing breakthrough direct-acting antiviral (DAA) medications, experts say.

The US government has set a goal of achieving viral clearance in 80% of patients by 2030.

THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- From 2019 to 2022, there was a considerable increase in illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF)-involved overdose deaths with xylazine detected, according to research published

THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The total estimated cost of birth defect-associated hospitalizations was $22.2 billion in the United States in 2019, according to research published in the July 7 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Justin Swanson, M.P.H., from the Lawton and Rhea