Publicly funded health care systems in developed countries fared better in terms of excess mortality and case fatality associated with COVID-19 than private sector health care. A study compared the performance of health care ...
Apr 18, 2023
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Although more women than men have chronic kidney disease (CKD), more men develop kidney failure. In a study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology of a northern European population that sought to explain this ...
Aug 17, 2022
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A new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and the Robert Butler Columbia Aging Center and Université Paris-Dauphine—PSL, found that having three or more versus two children has a negative effect ...
May 12, 2022
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For the first time, a highly transmissible strain of the antibiotic-resistant superbug MRSA currently plaguing hospitals in Northern Europe has been isolated from hedgehogs in Helsinki. The study by Venla Johansson and colleagues ...
Apr 22, 2022
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The global burden of melanoma is considerable and is expected to increase by 2040, according to a study published online March 30 in JAMA Dermatology.
Mar 30, 2022
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(HealthDay)—The incidence and prevalence of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is increasing worldwide, with the highest incidence and prevalence seen in Northern Europe and North America, according to a review ...
Jan 28, 2022
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Preventing heart attacks and strokes in type 2 diabetes patients managed in primary care should be an urgent priority. That's the conclusion of a study published on World Diabetes Day in the European Journal of Preventive ...
Nov 14, 2020
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Almost a quarter of people with severe sight loss in the UK are going without the treatment they need, according to a new study being presented at the World Congress on Public Health today.
Oct 16, 2020
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A common inherited genetic variant is a frequent cause of deafness in adults, meaning that many thousands of people are potentially at risk, reveals research published online in the Journal of Medical Genetics.
Jul 6, 2020
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A study performed by researchers at the Centre for International Health (CIH) at the University of Bergen (UiB), showed that obese boys between 8 years old and their age when their voice breaks, have double the risk of having ...
Oct 2, 2019
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