Esercito and Police officers control road traffic in Naples, Neighborhood Pianura on March 23, 2020, as Italy shut all stores except for pharmacies and food shops in a desperate bid to halt the spread of a coronavirus. Paolo Manzo | NurPhoto | Getty Images Glimmers of hope are being seen in Europe as the number… Read More »
If you were to sum up the overall health of a nation in one single number, what would that be? At the top of the list, you would likely find average life expectancy — the total number of years, on average, that a person in a country can expect to live. Wars, famine, and economic… Read More »
Depression, stroke and dementia are twice as common in women as in men. Among Alzheimer’s patients, 70 per cent are female. But according to Lynn Posluns, the driving force behind the first “Women’s Brain Health Day,” launched this week, most research on these disorders focus on only one gender — right down to the mice… Read More »
As the number of cancer survivors grows thanks to a growing and aging population as well as advances in treatment and early detection, the Cancer Treatment and Survivorship Statistics, 2019 report estimates that the number of people with a history of cancer living in the United States will increase from more than 16.9 million now… Read More »
You might think that a person would be completely clued up on their own body and the way in which it works. But it turns out that a lot of females don’t actually know all that much about their genitals. This is according to YouGov, who recently conducted a survey to discover how much anatomical… Read More »
The urgent care industry continues to grow and watch its population of users expand across patient demographics thanks to the demand for convenient access to specialized and immediate medical care as well as a consumer-friendly model that isn’t just attractive to millennials. That’s the word from the annual Benchmarking Report from the Urgent Care Association.… Read More »