A simple surgery saves patients with heart arrhythmia from often-lethal strokes, says a large international study led by McMaster University. Researchers found that removing the left atrial appendage — an unused, finger-like tissue that can ...
Pregnant women who develop severe COVID-19 infections that require hospitalization for pneumonia and other complications may not be more likely to die from these infections than non-pregnant women. In fact, they may have significantly lower ...
Antibiotic resistance in E. coli has been steadily increasing since the early 2000s despite attempts to control it, a new study suggests. In the biggest genomic survey of E. coli to date, which took more than 16 years ...
Moderate alcohol intake — defined as no more than one alcoholic drink for women and two for men per day — has been associated with a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease when compared ...
In response to the final report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (the Royal Commission), the Australian Government is delivering a $17.7 billion aged care reform package. The reforms will provide ...
As the COVID-19 cases continue to rise in India, doctors have begun to notice another alarming trend. Some COVID-19 patients who have recently been released from the hospital came back with symptoms like sinus pain, ...
Watching meaningful movies, those that we find moving and poignant, can make us feel more prepared to deal with life’s challenges and want to be a better person, a new study found. The findings point ...
Gestures — such as pointing or waving — go hand in hand with a child’s first words, and twins lag behind single children in producing and using those gestures, two studies from Georgia State University ...
Among younger adults visiting the emergency department for chest pain, women may be getting the short end of the stick. Compared with men of similar age, women experiencing chest pain were triaged less urgently, waited ...
A new University of Iowa study challenges the idea that grey matter (the neurons that form the cerebral cortex) is more important than white matter (the myelin covered axons that physically connect neuronal regions) when ...
Irrespective of gender, bullying is a considerably greater risk factor than overweight for developing depressive symptoms. Depressive symptoms are more common in teenage girls than in their male peers. However, boys’ mental health appears to ...
Quality care is a critical issue for mothers and newborn health. More women globally give birth in health facilities than ever before, but this has not always translated into dramatic gains in survival rates for ...
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