The Global Health Catalyst (GHC) group has “clarified” its honouring of Zimbabwe’s first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa hours after several US diplomats wrote to ask it...
September 4th, 2019Former professional football players who experienced concussion symptoms, including loss of consciousness, disorientation or nausea after a head injury, are more likely...
September 4th, 2019A large US study, following women for 10 years and men for 30 years, found that individuals with greater optimism are more likely to live longer and to achieve...
Everyone knows that achieving or maintaining a healthy body weight is one key to preventing cardiovascular disease. But even experts don't agree on the best way to...Cardiology
In late-breaking clinical trial results presented in a Hot Line Session at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2019, investigators from Brigham and Women's...Sleep Medicine
Certain traits may define a type of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) that can be effectively treated with an oral appliance, rather than continuous positive airway...
July 24th, 2019When new rules capped training hours for US medical residents at 80 hours per week in 2003, critics worried that the change would leave physicians-in-training unprepared...
July 24th, 2019More than one in 20 (6%) of patients are affected by preventable harm in medical care, of which around 12% causes permanent disability or death, finds a large UK study....
July 17th, 2019The body-mass index (BMI) is a notoriously inadequate predictor of morality and disease, reports The Atlantic. An emerging body of evidence is finding useful and cheap...
June 26th, 2019Eating two or more weekly servings of yoghurt is associated with lower risk of developing the adenomas which precede the development of bowel cancer – at least in men...
