The updated national colorectal cancer screening guidelines that recommend screening begin at age 45—rather than 50—can ...

People at risk for contracting HIV from sex can reduce their risk of infection by up to 99% when they take pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), an antiretroviral medication, as directed. However ...

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a blood test called Shield by the company Guardant Health. The test looks for fragments of DNA shed from colon cancers and polyps. If it finds ...

Eli Lilly’s juggernaut diabetes and obesity drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound have been erased from the FDA’s shortage list, freeing the company from competing with compounding pharmacies that have ...

The Purpose I study, sponsored by the drug manufacturer Gilead Sciences, included 5,000 women aged 16 and 25 years in Uganda and South Africa, and tested lenacapavir against two other PrEP drugs ...

Oral PrEP drugs had been paid for under Medicare's Part D drug program, but Part D doesn't normally cover physician-administered drugs. And although some Part D plans had been paying for the long ...

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