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 ...

Health

Very rural elders receive fewest services

Older adults living in very rural settings are less likely than those living closer to urban centers to receive available services in health, nutrition and transportation, according to a new study by a Washington State University ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Chinese city in partial lockdown over 'major risk' of virus spread

A northeastern Chinese city has partially shut its borders, cut off transport links and closed schools after the emergence of a local coronavirus cluster that has fuelled fears about a second wave of infections in China.

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