Jada Pinkett Smith isn't allowing her alopecia-related hair loss dampen her positive demeanor. In a new Instagram video, the 50-year-old actress revealed a "sudden" new symptom of the condition while embracing the condition. In the clip, the Red Table Talk host shows off her shaved head, which includes a new bald patch in the form of a line across the […]

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is an adverse reaction to ingesting a drug, which can appear both in developmental stages, in their clinical use and even after being approved as a drug. It is the main cause of acute liver failure in Europe and the United States, and its incidence has increased as a result of the polypharmacy that goes hand […]

The secret to producing large batches of stem cells more efficiently may lie in the near-zero gravity conditions of space. Scientists at Cedars-Sinai have found that microgravity has the potential to contribute to life-saving advances on Earth by facilitating the rapid mass production of stem cells. A new paper, led by Cedars Sinai and published in the peer-review journal Stem […]

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A booster dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine helped reduce hospitalizations and serious illness among South African medical workers as the Omicron variant swept the nation, a new study says About 69,000 health care workers were given a booster dose of the J&J vaccine […]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People with breakthrough cases of COVID-19 earlier this year were much less likely than unvaccinated COVID-19 patients to infect others, a population-based study from Germany shows. The findings are based on data collected until August 2021, before the Omicron variant emerged. “The number of transmissions from unvaccinated controls was three times higher than from fully […]

New U.S. data based on nearly 9 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine delivered to kids ages 5 to 11 shows no major safety issues, according to researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vaccine was first authorized for use in this age group in October. Now the new study shows that these “preliminary safety […]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Treatment with the investigational oral Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors ritlecitinib or brepocitinib led to molecular and clinical improvement in scalp lesions in patients with alopecia areata enrolled in a biopsy sub-study of the phase-2 ALLEGRO trial. “Alopecia areata is a chronic, relapsing autoimmune disorder with an approximate 2% lifetime incidence among patients in the United […]

“Holiday heart” may sound like another joyous part of the holiday season. “But, in the cardiology world, ‘holiday heart’ actually refers to this effect of the stress of too much alcohol, too much salt, higher blood pressure on the heart,” says Dr. Amy Pollak, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist. Dr. Pollak says all that stress on the heart can cause an […]

(Reuters Health) – Kidney transplant recipients have similar outcomes with both heterologous and homologous third SARS-Cov-2 vaccine doses, a randomized clinical trial suggests. For the trial, researchers randomized 197 kidney transplant patients who didn’t have antibodies against the SARS-Cov-2 spike protein after two doses of a mRNA vaccine from Moderna or Pfizer/BioNTech. Patients were randomized 1:1 to receive either a […]

Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found marked decreases in orphanhood particularly double orphanhood, among adolescents in Rakai, Uganda, corresponding with the availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) beginning in 2004 and of male medical circumcision in 2007. Until now, little had been known about the contribution of HIV combination prevention including ART and male circumcision to recent […]