(Medical Xpress)—A national study has found that earnings over the course of the careers of primary-care physicians averaged as much as $2.8 million less than the earnings of their specialist colleagues, potentially making ...
Sep 19, 2012
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Adults with disabilities are at much greater risk of violence than adults without disabilities, according to a new meta-analysis published Online First in The Lancet. Adults with mental illness appear to be particularly vulnerable ...
Feb 27, 2012
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(Medical Xpress)—A new Northwestern Medicine study shows that smoking during your middle-aged years dramatically increases your lifetime risk of not just getting cancer, but dying from it.
Sep 13, 2012
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Understanding the true age of your heart is key to curbing the lifetime risk of developing—and dying from—heart disease, say new consensus recommendations on how best to stave off the worldwide epidemic of cardiovascular ...
Mar 25, 2014
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Women at high lifetime breast cancer risk might benefit from breast MRI screening in addition to routine mammography, but a new study shows that breast MRI is greatly underutilized even though access is widely available. ...
Mar 19, 2018
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Almost 620,000 gay and bisexual men in the United States were living with HIV in 2014, and 100,000 of these men were not even aware of their infection. These men are 100 times more likely to have anal cancer than HIV-negative ...
Sep 27, 2017
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Performing vigorous physical activity over one's lifetime may lower risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). These study results were published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association ...
May 1, 2015
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality and also contributes to huge health care expenditures in China. Therefore, accurate and early identification of high-risk individuals is important ...
Jul 24, 2018
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Genes and lifestyle factors together play a role in stroke risk. However, even for people at high risk for stroke, adopting a healthy cardiovascular lifestyle may significantly lower the risk of stroke in their lifetime, ...
Jul 20, 2022
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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 ...
