Prophylactic antibiotics prescribed before dental procedures may cause serious adverse events, including allergic reactions requiring hospitalization and bacterial infections, according to new data ...

Population-Based Profile of Mental Health and Support Service Need Among Family Caregivers of Adults With Cancer Pathologic fractures often contribute to adverse events in metastatic bone disease, and ...

For patients who have a ventricular tachyarrhythmic event, implantable cardioverter–defibrillators (ICDs) are a mainstay of therapy to prevent sudden death. However, ICD shocks are painful, can result ...

Prophylactic administration of obinutuzumab, a B-cell-depleting antibody, reduces the incidence of corticosteroid-requiring chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD) at 1 year from 35.2% to 13.3% in ...

Nearly one third (32.9%) of hospitalized children received antibiotics prophylactically, and 51.8% of those children were given broad-spectrum antibiotics, according to findings published online March ...

Health experts say lenacapavir could reduce the number of global HIV infections significantly. It can protect against HIV with only two injections per year. But it needs to be cheaper to be effective.

Not long ago, aspirin was viewed primarily as a means of providing relief from minor aches, pains, and fevers. But as evidence mounted in support of aspirin’s preventive powers, this medicine-chest ...