Cardiology

Acute stroke patients are waiting hours for care: Study

A new study from the University of Chicago Medicine reveals that nearly 75% of acute stroke patients wait more than two hours to be transferred to a comprehensive stroke center—a delay in advanced care and treatments that ...

Health

Physical fitness as a demographic watershed

Sedentary behavior, a large waist circumference, and advanced age: These factors are clearly associated with inferior physical fitness among people aged 50 to 64. In a study with over 5,000 participants, investigating the ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

China lifts weeks-long lockdown on southwest megacity Chengdu

Millions of people in the Chinese megacity of Chengdu emerged Monday from a COVID-19 lockdown that had closed schools, disrupted businesses and forced residents to stay home for over two weeks.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Shanghai, Beijing order new round of mass COVID-19 testing

Residents of parts of Shanghai and Beijing have been ordered to undergo further rounds of COVID-19 testing following the discovery of new cases in the two cities, while tight restrictions remain in place in Hong Kong, Macao ...

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