Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Women face worse chronic kidney disease management in primary care

Women receive worse primary care-based chronic kidney disease (CKD) management than men, according to a research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide with the annual meeting of the ...

Diabetes

Diabetes medication risk in aged care revealed

An Australian-first study by the Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) investigating the use of blood sugar-lowering medications among residents with diabetes in aged care homes nationwide, has revealed the rising use of ...

Cardiology

Torn neck arteries may be more common than once thought

Along each side of the neck are a pair of arteries that supply blood to the brain. It's rare for one of those blood vessels to tear. But it's one of the most common causes of a stroke in younger adults, according to a new ...

Diabetes

Metabolically healthy obesity: Fact or fiction?

A session at this year's Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes will explore the latest data on the concept of metabolically healthy obesity (MHO)—more commonly known by the public as "fat ...

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