WASHINGTON — The Physician-focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC), the group tasked by Congress with reviewing payment models, voted not to recommend two separate…
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DENVER — The presence of a psychiatric disorder did not appear to influence relationships between pain and sleep, researchers reported here. Sleep and pain were…
National Cancer Institute Director Ned Sharpless will serve as acting FDA Commissioner when Scott Gottlieb leaves the agency next month, Health and Human Services Secretary…
Measles cases have cropped up across 12 states over the last ten weeks — nearly two decades since the highly contagious disease was said to…
A novel machine-learning ‘toolbox’ that can read and analyse the sequences of proteins has been described today in the open-access journal eLife. The study demonstrates…
The environment can have a major effect on the human cardiovascular system. It has long been assumed that severe spikes in temperature increase the risk…
If functionality of the brain’s amygdala is impaired, illusory perceptions arise much faster and more pronounced. This was discovered by a team of researchers led…
Cancer cells consume sugar at a higher rate than healthy cells, but they’re also hungry for amino acids, the building blocks of proteins and other…
A team of scientists reports finding the first evidence that the human hippocampus is necessary for future planning. Its findings, published in the journal Neuron,…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has tapped National Cancer Institute Director Norman Sharpless to serve as acting commissioner for the Food and…