Patients hospitalized with endocarditis can be safely switched from intravenous antibiotics to oral medication about halfway through the course of treatment, according to a randomized trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

According to a report by the Washington Post, the rapid progress with cerebral organoids has prompted calls for an ethics debate surrounding the research behind organoids and the possibility of them eventually having a consciousness.

WellCare Health Plans, a Tampa-based managed care provider, has closed its acquisition of Meridian Health Plans of Michigan, Meridian Health Plans of Illinois and MeridianRx in a deal worth about $2.5 billion.

The ability to walk upright on two feet required millions of years of evolution, and even today humans are not perfectly adapted to bipedalism, argued authors in a recent Academic Radiology perspective.

The CDC released new guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in children on Tuesday, Sept. 4, in JAMA Pediatrics.

A cardiologist is suing Oregon Health and Science University for “forcing” her out of a job last year after she was reportedly subjected to consistent racial and sexual discrimination, the Oregonian has reported.

A new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggests children born through assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are at an increased risk of developing arterial hypertension early in life.

A machine learning model developed by scientists at the Francis Crick Institute in London can more accurately predict risk of death in patients with heart disease than leading models designed by medical experts, according to a study published in PLOS One.

Researchers are hoping an electronic device used to detect, stop and prevent epileptic seizures in mice can be used to treat other neurological disorders, according to a study published in Science Advances.

The Bonnie Uytengsu and Family Surgery and Intervention Center surgical center, the newest expansion at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, California, includes six interventional treatment rooms for radiology laboratories and other service lines.