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Investigators have launched the Twin 360 study to examine COVID-19’s impact on twins and perhaps better understand why some people continue to experience symptoms after their initial infection, according to a press release.

Patients with cancer used marijuana less often than the general public despite increased legalization and social acceptance of the drug, according to results of a study published in Cancer.

Data show that the driving distance from a pharmacy could explain why many women with breast cancer forgo influenza vaccinations.

Researchers found partial overlap between the genetic and environmental etiologies of suicide attempt and death, according to study results published in American Journal of Psychiatry.

Many physicians are reluctant to prescribe medical cannabis amid its uncertain legal status and preliminary, sometimes contradictory, clinical data on its safety and benefits.

Regeneron’s antibody cocktail reduced the risk for death by 20% in patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 who had not mounted their own immune response, researchers from the phase 3 RECOVERY trial said Wednesday.

Treatment with tranexamic acid significantly reduced the incidence of calculated estimated postpartum blood loss of more than 1000 mL or red‐cell transfusions within 2 days of cesarean delivery, according to a randomized controlled trial.

Family genetic risk scores showed clear separations between major affective and psychotic disorders and were linked to early age at onset and high rates of recurrence, according to results of a Swedish cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

In this video, Robert Winn, MD, discussed the advantages and disadvantages to the virtual format of conferences and how this impacted the experience for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Virtual Annual Meeting.

In the United States, excess deaths increased 22.9% between March 1, 2020, and Jan. 2, 2021, an increase that “far exceeds annual increases observed in recent years” of 2.5% or less, data in JAMA show.