A New York Times health reporter explains what makes a good study, and how she knows which papers merit an article.

Objective This study aimed to determine the proportion of capacity challenges for refusal of care, the risk factors that may ...

Chronic malaria exposure has been proposed to modulate immune function, but its long-term effects on antibody-mediated responses to unrelated pathogens remain poorly defined. Whether these effects ...

Genomic newborn screening using whole-genome sequencing identified 1.6% of infants with high-chance, treatable genetic ...

Medicare beneficiaries with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) were found to have more than 3 times the Medicare expenditures and beneficiary liability of the average Medicare beneficiary.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Utilizing a kayak, the Muskegon River Watershed Assembly cut a ribbon draped across ...

Frailty is not significantly linked to the occurrence of adverse events of grade 3 or higher but linked to higher risks for ...

Professor Clare Turnbull, Professor of Translational Cancer Genetics at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, said: ...

All that feed corn and all those soybeans—and those nearly 25 million hogs—produce a lot of nitrate. It’s making Iowans sick ...

Introduction The suicide risk among discharged psychiatric patients is substantially higher than that among patients with physical diseases and the general population. In China, few cohort studies ...