BACKGROUND: Whether cannabis is a risk factor for cardiovascular events is unknown. We examined the association between smoking cannabis and cardiovascular events in a cohort of older veterans (66 to ...

Objectives Cardiovascular (CV) diseases are associated with adverse outcomes. However, attention has typically focused on ...

Medical experts report rising lung cancer diagnoses in non-smokers as smoking rates decline, raising questions about expanding screening guidelines beyond traditional high-risk groups.

Lung cancer, the second-most common cancer in the U.S., is often associated with smoking — but even those who have never had a cigarette could be at risk of the deadly disease.

Accurate reporting of thromboembolic events in cancer therapy trials is thus essential for precise quantification of risk, allowing for such prophylactic interventions to improve outcomes in this ...

Adding Winrevair treatment significantly reduced the risk of clinical worsening in people with a recent PAH diagnosis, per a study.

Sotatercept added to background therapy within 12 months after initial diagnosis of PAH significantly reduced the risk of clinical worsening events compared with placebo. Topline results were ...

Data Demonstrating Sotagliflozin Reduces the Risk of Clinically Important Hypoglycemic Events in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes When Added to Insulin Presented at the 85th Scientific Sessions of the ...

A Northwestern clinical trial testing whether a modified Apple Watch can reduce the use of blood thinners to treat atrial fibrillation is at risk because of a federal funding pause to the university.

The aim of this post-hoc analysis was to evaluate the effect of kidney function on hypoglycemia risk in patients with T1D who were being treated with sotagliflozin, a dual inhibitor of SGLT 1 and 2, ...

"Having just one copy of this gene variant does not impact someone's health or increase their risk of dementia. However, having two copies of the variant more than doubled the risk of dementia in men, ...