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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has begun vaccinating people against Ebola after the recent death of a boy from the virus, health officials said.

Molnupiravir, an investigational oral antiviral drug, significantly reduced the risk for hospitalization or death from COVID-19 among high-risk patients, according to a company press release.

Patients with pulmonary hypertension who undergo primary or revision total knee arthroplasty have increased mortality and complications within 90 days of surgery, according to published results.

Experts continued to see a decrease in overall cancer mortality among men and women of all races and ethnicities in the United States toward the end of the last decade, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.

Chronic hepatitis B virus, whether current or past, was not associated with increased incidence of acute liver injury or death among patients with COVID-19, according to research presented at the International Liver Congress.

Across 29 high-income countries, excess deaths in 2020 — the contrast between the number of all-cause deaths compared with historic projections — approached 1 million, a recent study showed.

Peloton said it was recalling its Tread+ treadmill following the death of a child and dozens of reported injuries related to the machine.

Sleeping fewer than 5 hours per night was associated with increased risks for incident dementia and death among older adults in the United States, according to research published in Aging.

The longer an individual smoked, the greater his or her odds were for COVID-19 hospitalization and death, an analysis of data from a single health system showed.

Methamphetamine overdose death rates in the United States in recent years differed by sex, race and ethnicity, according to results of a research letter published in JAMA Psychiatry.