Diabetes
'Miracle' weight-loss drugs could have reduced health disparities: Instead they got worse
The American Heart Association calls them "game changers."
Apr 22, 2024
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News tagged with health
Addiction
The UK plans to phase out smoking. What does this new law mean for tobacco control in Australia?
There are no silver bullets, magic tricks or secret hacks to solving complex public health problems. Taking on the global tobacco industry and reducing the devastating consequences of smoking has taken decades of incremental ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Language matters in preventing suicide
Of all the issues in psychiatry, even in all of medicine, suicide may be the most challenging to discuss responsibly in public.
Apr 22, 2024
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Health
A study in Brazil shows social programs have prevented 1.4 million all-age deaths over the past two decades
Primary health care, conditional cash transfers and social pensions have prevented 1.4 million deaths of all ages in Brazil over the past two decades, according to a study coordinated by the Barcelona Institute for Global ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers find obese people and tall, centrally obese people are more likely to get colorectal cancer
A large international team of medical researchers has found that people with two types of body shape are more likely to develop colorectal cancer than people with other body types. In their study, published in the journal ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
People think 'old age' starts later than it used to, study finds
Middle-aged and older adults believe that old age begins later in life than their peers did decades ago, according to a study.
Apr 22, 2024
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Cardiology
Atrial fibrillation more common and dangerous in younger people than previously thought
Atrial fibrillation (Afib), a common type of arrhythmia that is on the rise in people under the age of 65, is more dangerous in this increasingly younger population than previously thought, according to a new study published ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Health
UN labor agency report warns of rising threat of excess heat, climate change on world's workers
The U.N. labor organization warned Monday that over 70% of the world's workforce is likely to be exposed to excessive heat during their careers, citing increased concern about exposure to sunlight. It also warned of air pollution, ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Pediatrics
What do you know about measles and vaccination?
With measles cases rising in Canada and internationally, it is important for clinicians to understand the disease and the role of vaccination against measles. Two articles in Canadian Medical Association Journal provide succinct ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Health
First Nations patients leave ED without completing treatment more often than comparable non–First Nations patients
First Nations patients in Alberta leave emergency departments (EDs) without completing treatment more often than comparable non–First Nations patients, due in part to anti-Indigenous racism expressed by providers, found ...
Apr 22, 2024
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