An observational study of more than 700,000 male and female patients found that patients treated by female physicians experienced lower mortality and readmission rates compared to patients treated by ...

The benefits of being treated by a female clinician were especially pronounced among women, researchers found, possibly due ...

In heart failure, "the paradox is that at a time that we're seeing these increases in mortality, we also have access to ...

That barrier to access to health care is one reason rural county death rates tend to be higher than their urban counterparts.

Researchers think misconceptions about STDs among older Americans are contributing ... in 2022 were nearly eight times higher. Some researchers think STD rates are climbing in this age group ...

Yet, research shows that older adults have a higher risk of developing ... a loss of appetite and thoughts of death rather than sadness. Doctors may view these symptoms as age-related frailty ...

The researchers further observed that older patients with dementia who ... to rapidly diagnose and treat presumed CAP, leading to higher rates of inappropriate diagnosis," they wrote in the ...

She was older. She’d lost a child ... fetal medicine or the high-risk maternity doctors until you get to week 14.” Clayton ...

For years, doctors, public health experts and researchers have known the risk of dying from cancer is substantially higher if a patient lives in a rural area compared to an urban area. Now ...

While adults older than 50 experienced a drop in overall ... younger than 50.Why are young people getting cancers at higher rates? Does this mean people should start screening for cancer at ...