Mailing an at-home HPV self-collection kit to patients overdue for cervical cancer screening more than doubled the share who actually got screened. Within six months, 41.1% of those sent a kit had been screened, against 17.4% of patients who received… Read More →
Veterans who took the 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccine at the same visit as their flu shot had a 38% lower risk of a COVID-related heart attack, stroke, heart-failure hospitalization or cardiovascular death over the next eight months. That comes to about… Read More →
People who had quit smoking 10 or more years earlier lived about as long as those who never smoked, regaining roughly 10 of the 12 to 13 years of life that continued smoking was linked to losing. The figures come… Read More →
Among 2,134 young women given a twice-yearly injection, not one infection occurred. Among 2,179 men and gender-diverse adults given the same injection, there were two. Those are the HIV results of two large international trials of a drug called lenacapavir.… Read More →
Adults who received a shingles vaccine had about a 23% lower risk of a serious heart or blood-vessel event in the years that followed, in a study tracking more than a million people in South Korea. The lower risk was… Read More →
Can bringing blood pressure down hold dementia off? A trial across 326 villages in rural China set out to test exactly that. Dementia turned up about 15% less often over four years among adults with uncontrolled high blood pressure who… Read More →
Among adults aged 65 and older, having a flu shot before the season tracked with about 14% fewer hospitalizations for influenza, in a Taiwanese study of more than two million people. In plain counts that is roughly 3.1 hospital stays… Read More →
Could a vaccine against a rash change anyone's odds of losing their memory? Shingles is that rash, painful and blistering, caused when the chickenpox virus wakes up after decades asleep in the nerves. Dementia is the slow loss of memory… Read More →
