If you're going into hospital for treatment, you want the best: the finest doctors, the latest medicines, the most-advanced surgical techniques. But the success of your care could also come down to something much more mundane ...
Mar 19, 2024
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Many children announce their arrival in the delivery room with a piercing cry. As a newborn automatically takes its first breath, the lungs inflate, the blood vessels in the lungs widen, and the whole circulatory system reconfigures ...
Mar 13, 2024
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Women who die during pregnancy or within a year after giving birth are closely studied by state health officials. Policymakers have worked in earnest for a decade to improve pregnancy outcomes, yet Georgia remains one of ...
Feb 21, 2024
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More than 100 days into the brutal assault on Gaza, over 27,000 Palestinians have been killed—of whom 60 percent have been children and women—and 66,000 injured, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Feb 6, 2024
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For patients with heart failure and type 2 diabetes (T2D), dapagliflozin does not reduce urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) but does reduce some cardiovascular events, according to a study published online Nov. 27 ...
Dec 30, 2023
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In an outbreak of Salmonella illness tied to cantaloupes that began last month, 302 people in 42 states have now fallen ill. As of Dec. 15, four people had died and 129 had been hospitalized, according to the U.S. Food and ...
Dec 20, 2023
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A salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupes keeps expanding, with cases doubling since the last tally, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.
Dec 8, 2023
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The CDC has issued an update on a salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupes, raising the number of states to 34 after Alaska and Kansas were found to have cases. The number of people who have been sickened has increased, ...
Dec 1, 2023
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Since dental X-rays became commonplace some seven decades ago, dentists and hygienists have been draping their patients with protective gear to shield them from the possibility of radiation exposure to body parts other than ...
Oct 27, 2023
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A Japanese study has revealed that prefecture-specific participation rates for specific health checkups (SHC participation rates) had significant negative effects on prefecture-specific standardized incidence rates (SIRs) ...
Oct 19, 2023
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