Background Annually, 4% of the global population undergoes non-cardiac surgery, with 30% of those patients having at least ...

Objective It was necessary to understand the determinants of severe COVID-19 in order to deliver targeted healthcare services to prevent further complications and mortality. Identifying the factors ...

As misinformation about women's health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of communicating nuance in the social media ...

Panel (A): PheWAS plot for men without vs. with offspring. Panel (B): PheWAS plot for women without vs. with offspring. Panel (C): PheWAS plot for men with more than one vs. with one offspring. Panel ...

The Wake County Sheriff’s Office has identified a woman killed in a 1968 homicide using partner agencies and advancements in forensic genealogy. On Thursday, the sheriff’s office and State Bureau of ...

Two years after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, new research is looking at who's switching to it and why. In the study, published Monday ...

A new study suggests that the first over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the U.S. is reaching people who previously had little or no access to contraception. Researchers at Oregon Health & ...

As use of the popular anti-diabetic and weight-loss drug Ozempic skyrockets, so have concerns about the medication’s side effects. One such side effect is loss of “lean mass”—body weight that isn’t ...

Studies have linked a type of injectable birth control with meningioma, while the manufacturer says the claims are “without merit” Getty The injectable birth control medroxyprogesterone acetate, which ...

Some people thrive off running long distances while others loathe every mile and it turns out this might have something to do with the length of your ring finger. You read that right, in a recent ...

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