Dentist office closures during the height of the pandemic led more low-income children to visit emergency rooms for routine dental care at a time when hospitals across the city were buckling under a ...

Dental office closures early in the COVID-19 pandemic were associated with a 62-percent increase in the share of emergency department visits from toothaches, abscesses, and other painful dental issues ...

Recent cuts to the federal workforce could negatively impact cancer research and public health for years to come, researchers say.

Researchers have studied a new method to deliver antibiotics, specifically gentamicin, directly into the bladder tissue to better treat UTIs. They did this by creating nanogels combined with a special ...

Dr. Celine Gounder explains how poor dental care can potentially increasing your risk of developing other health conditions.

The National Institutes of Health awarded more than $272 million in research funding to 48 dental schools in the U.S. last year, according to new data from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical ...

American Cancer Society. Signs and symptoms of oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Oral cancer. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Former NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus speaks out about what recent budget cuts and policy changes could mean for science.

As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher ...

At Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., research is key to advancing innovation in pediatric care. Catherine Bollard, MD, senior vice president and chief research officer of its research ...