(MedPage Today) -- The CDC has issued an in-depth report to help healthcare providers and educators design comprehensive family planning services to fit the needs of the public.

(MedPage Today) -- The notion of using anti-HIV drugs, specifically Truvada, to prevent people from catching the virus -- so-called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP -- has been around and under study for several years. Do new guidelines signal a chang...

(MedPage Today) -- Migraine might be a risk factor for subclinical brain infarction in older individuals, a cross-sectional study showed.

(MedPage Today) -- Patients diagnosed with early rheumatoid arthritis who were overweight were less likely to achieve rapid disease control, Swedish researchers found.

(MedPage Today) -- The Netherlands is reporting two cases of the Middle East coronavirus (MERS) while hard-hit Saudi Arabia is reporting three new cases and three deaths. To keep track of the coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, MedPage Today?s dai...

(MedPage Today) -- SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Patients starting on the sleep drug eszopiclone (Lunesta) should take no more than 1 mg at bedtime -- one-third the current label-recommended dose -- because of the risk of next-day impairment, the FDA said Thur...

LAS VEGAS (MedPage Today) -- Higher doses of mifepristone for Cushing's disease (Korlym) -- better known as RU-486 -- weren't associated with increases in serious adverse events, researchers reported here.

LAS VEGAS (MedPage Today) -- Obese patients who continue to have "thyroid symptoms" even when their levels are normalized may have a hypothalamic dysfunction, researchers reported here.

SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- More physician scientists -- that?s the call Thomas Ferkol, MD, incoming president of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), will sound this year.

(MedPage Today) -- Exercise is good for the heart, but too much of a good thing could be bad for healthy adults and patients with cardiovascular disease, according to two observational studies that suggest a J shaped curve for the dose-response effects...

(MedPage Today) -- For people at high risk of acquiring HIV, doctors should consider prescribing antiretroviral drugs as a preventive measure, the CDC said.

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CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- Lung cancer screening of the Medicare population would have a big impact on stage at detection, but at the hefty price of $9.3 billion over the first 5 years, a modeling study showed.

(MedPage Today) -- Statements placing the adverse event rate associated with statin use at 18% to 20% have been withdrawn from two papers published in BMJ last year.