The consistent use of experienced medical teams for a single type of surgery, pre-emptive antibiotics, less reliance on potent opioids and urging patients to move around...Clinical Practice
Severely obese patients have high risk for major complications and death in emergency surgery, with 40% needing to be admitted to intensive care unit and 17% dying.Talking Points
The peer review system that underpins scientific research is in trouble. Increasing levels of scientific fraud and retractions of articles reflect the ineffective...Talking Points
With 3.1m people on antiretrovirals, South Africa has the world's largest ARV programme, but the cost of sustaining it will more than double in the next two decades.
Led...HIV/AIDS
June 16th, 2015More than 60,000 Australians are estimated to have reduced or discontinued their use of prescribed cholesterol-lowering statin medications following the airing of a...
Middle-aged men and women who have experienced the upheaval of separation, divorce and remarriage are as healthy as couples in stable marriages, according to a...Paediatrics
As little as two minutes of high-intensity exercise four times a day improves health outcomes in adolescents, but the same amount of moderate-intensity exercise does not...Medico-Legal
A 12-year-old boy in the UK has been awarded £120,000 by a court that agreed he had been left severely disabled by narcolepsy triggered by the swine flu vaccine,...
June 16th, 2015Never before has mankind’s obsession with the smile been so easily actionable. Cosmetic dentistry now represents the largest nonsurgical beauty industry after makeup. ...
