November 13th, 2019
A study has found that copper hospital beds in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) harboured an average of 95% fewer bacteria than conventional hospital beds, and maintained...
Data found the combination of glecaprevir and pibrentasvir is highly effective and well tolerated in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype-1 infections...Oncology
Researchers at University of California – San Diego School of Medicine suggest higher levels of vitamin D are associated with decreasing risk of breast cancer. Their...Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
Keyhole surgery for heart valve repair may trump robotic surgery, because it is associated with lower rates of subsequent heart flutter and blood transfusions, and a...Oncology
A new study shows that so-called “light” cigarettes have no health benefits to smokers and have likely contributed to the rise of a certain form of lung cancer that...Cardiovascular
Obese people who get surgery to lose weight have half the risk of developing heart failure compared to patients who make lifestyle changes to shed excess pounds, a...Neurology
The increased risk of stroke that comes with smoking may extend to non-smokers who live in the same household and breathe in second-hand smoke, found a US...
August 3rd, 2016Of all professionals in the US, doctors experience some of the highest rates of burnout, with ore than half of them feeling this way, Mayo Clinic research...
A Medical University of South Carolina study report promising 90-day outcomes for stroke patients with large-vessel clots who underwent thrombectomy or clot removal...
