Health experts worry that the roles women hold in society, such as nurses or caregivers, place them squarely in the…
Postponement of Death by Pharmacological Heart Failure Treatment: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials
Outcome postponement has been proposed as an effect measure for preventive drug treatment. It describes the average delay of the…
Statin use is associated with reduced risk of recurrence in patients with venous thromboembolism
Statin therapy appears to reduce incidence of venous thromboembolism in secondary analyses of non-venous thromboembolism trials, but no evidence has…
The Impact of Levothyroxine on Cardiac Function in Older Adults with Mild Subclinical Hypothyroidism: a Randomized Clinical Trial
Subclinical hypothyroidism has been associated with heart failure, but only small trials assessed whether treatment with levothyroxine has an impact…
How to Clean Your Phone to Help Protect Against Coronavirus
It’s one thing to stop touching your face. It’s another to stop touching the things that touch your face.
How the Coronavirus Changed the 2020 Campaign
The three major presidential candidates have quickly pivoted to try to shape a new political discourse, as they face a…
Monty Python’s silly walk: A gait analysis and wake-up call to peer review inefficiencies
Fifty years ago, Monty Python’s famous sketch, ‘The Ministry of Silly Walks,’ first aired. The sketch pokes fun at the…
Facebook language changes before an emergency hospital visit
A new study reveals that the language people use on Facebook subtly changes before they make a visit to the…
C-sections: Moving beyond ‘defensive medicine’
A new study shows removing liability concerns slightly increases C-section procedures during childbirth.
Heat stress may affect more than 1.2 billion people annually by 2100
Heat stress from extreme heat and humidity will annually affect areas now home to 1.2 billion people by 2100, assuming…