A new study found there was significantly lower quality of care and worse outcomes in women compared to men – particularly young women under age 35 who had heart attack symptoms.
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Section: Health Sciences
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Identifying aggressive breast cancers by interpreting the mathematical patterns in the cancer genome
It is now possible to identify aggressive breast cancers by interpreting the mathematical patterns in the cancer genome.
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Your child goes to bed in perfect health. The next morning she wakes up with high fever, malaise and bright red blisters erupting all over her body. Dermatologists say the disturbing scenario has become quite common in the last few months, sending scar…
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Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death and a common cause of long-term disability in the United States, but doctors have very few proven treatment methods. Now a new device that mechanically removes stroke-causing clots from the brain is being hai…
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Renal denervation improves blood pressure and arterial stiffness in patients with therapy resistant hypertension, according to new research. The findings suggest that renal denervation regenerates blood vessels and could reduce cardiovascular events.
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Researchers studying interventions for adolescents and young adults with autism have reported that there is insufficient evidence to support findings, good or bad, for the therapies currently used.
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An anthropologist suggests that the length of human pregnancy is limited primarily by a mother’s metabolism, not the size of the birth canal. The research challenges the long-held notion of an evolutionary trade-off between childbirth and a pelvis adap…
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Cases of one of the world’s deadliest diseases — tuberculosis — are rising at an alarming rate, despite widespread vaccination. Reasons for the ineffectiveness of the vaccine, especially in regions where this infectious disease is endemic, as well as…
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It can fly through the air or hitch a ride on a handshake, hug or kiss. “It” is seasonal flu. There are many reasons to get an annual flu vaccine, but a physician offers a tongue-in-cheek “Top 10 Reasons Not to get a Flu Shot.”
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A new synthetic protein can pinpoint cancer and other diseases in the body by finding nearby damaged collagen.
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Despite nearly three decades of conflict, Sri Lanka has succeeded in reducing malaria cases by 99.9 percent since 1999 and is on track to eliminate the disease entirely by 2014.
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A monoclonal antibody tested in an animal model prevents infection by the hepatitis C virus (HCV).
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