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Breakthrough status for a new drug to treat familial hypercholesterolemia.

Diets high in sugar and saturated fat are associated with ADHD.

Microbleeds in the brain appear to increase with cardiac procedures:Study.

The Absorb GT1 Bioresorbable Vascular Stent raised concerns at the FDA.

Drugs were as effective in CTO patients as PCI, Korean study found.

New diagnostic tool iFR is less painful for heart patients than FFR.

In another major study comparing TAVR to surgery, outcomes were similar.

A panel wants the FDA to restrict an opioid because abusers are injecting it.

The Senate Finance Committee approved Seema Verma for top CMS post.

FDA accepts sNDA for antipsychotic drug cariprazine.

Researchers conclude that ADHD is a brain development disorder.

New device draws blood painlessly from capillaries.

In a long-term study, surgery was better than medical care alone for diabetes.

Automatically administered insulin worked well in diabetic hospital patients.

Statins can trigger diabetes in some patients—will PCSCK9 drugs?

People with noninfectious uveitis tend to have low vitamin D levels.

Endotracheal intubation may do more harm than good.

Children born to obese parents may be facing developmental delays, a study from the National Institutes of Health has found. The study looked at obese fathers as well as mothers.

After a review of existing studies, the FDA today sent out a warning that surgery lasting three hours or more poses a threat of brain or other neurological damage in babies, fetuses, and toddlers.

Sitagliptin tablets proved more convenient and equally safe and effective as insulin injections in achieving glycemic control for people with diabetes admitted to hospitals for medical care or surgery, a five-center study found.

Though all obese women are treated as though they are at high risk of getting diabetes during pregnancy, that's not true. Only a quarter of them do. A UK team has figured out how to assess risk.

Babies exposed to Zika virus in utero can look normal at birth but develop microcephaly months later as their head growth decelerates, the CDC reports.

Among a large sample of Veterans Affairs health care patients with peripheral artery disease, researchers found African Americans were 43% more likely to lose a limb to amputation--and it is likely not because of socioeconomic or behavioral factors.

An analysis of thousands of patients in Germany taken from a national registry found interventional procedures more dangerous than surgery for severe symptomatic aortic valve stenosis. But there may have been confounding factors.

Systemic atherosclerosis causes peripheral artery disease, and these patients are at risk of cardiovascular death and stroke.

The mysterious sudden deaths of apparently healthy people, some young and engaged in sports, could be explained by mutations uncovered by a Canada research team.

By a wide margin, Colorado voters approved a measure to legalize physician-assisted suicide.

Should porn actors be forced to wear condoms as a public health measure? It's on the ballot in California but both major political parties oppose it.

Do physicians feel voting is a waste of time? They are less likely to go to the polls than the average person, and far less likely to cast ballots than lawyers.

Before antibiotics, people went blind from syphilis. They still could, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned today.