Researchers have found in a new study that Frailty is associated with higher mortality rates, falls and hospitalization among ...

Design Systematic review. Data sources Electronic databases (PubMed, EMBASE and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) were searched up to 6 September 2017. Eligibility criteria ...

Fatigue is a common health complaint in older adults, but its prevalence varies widely among studies due to differences in populations and assessment tools. The objective of this review is to ...

Universal health care simply means that every citizen has a realistic ability to access basic health care services. It does not mean that only the government pays for that access. Most of the ...

BACKGROUND: Circular RNAs derived from both nuclear and mitochondrial genomes are identified in animal cells.

Declining US drug overdose deaths show that public health approaches work The US overdose crisis contributed to over 100 000 deaths in 2023.1 The 22% decrease in overdose deaths between August 2023 ...

The term dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) refers to a spectrum of heterogeneous myocardial disorders that are characterized by ventricular dilation and depressed myocardial performance in the absence of ...

COVID-19 represented a greater disease burden than influenza, with more hospital admissions and deaths, and more severe disease (primarily among non-vaccinated people, those with comorbidities, and ...

If you’re pregnant or nursing, it makes sense to be extra careful about the medications you take. While the FDA has found Benadryl safe to take for allergies during pregnancy, they haven’t ...

Suffering a serious ankle fracture often requires surgery to properly realign the bones and stabilize them while they heal.

Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH, FACMI, Founding Editor and Publisher; Adjunct Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada Data sharing plays a crucial role in health ...