In the last few years, menstrual cups have emerged as an eco-friendly alternative to disposable pads and tampons. Rather than absorbing menstrual blood, these flexible silicone cups collect it from within the vagina, and they can last for up ten years

A surprising number of people are catching pneumonia or urinary tract infections in hospital, a new Australian study shows for the first time.

By Lucy Maddox. This new research adds to a body of evidence that takes the blame off the nurse and squarely places the responsibility on the system to do better.

Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Internet of Things and blockchain technology are shaping the current healthcare industry. Find out how tech trends benefited medical sphere today.

Anyone who says they’re worried about people losing their health insurance because of Medicare for All is being disingenuous: every year, under our current system, 50 million lack insurance at some point. The only solution to that insecurity is Medicare for All.

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We routinely misinterpret patients' wishes around medical interventions. Dr. Fred Mirarchi may have a way to fix that.

Artificial intelligence is often hailed as a great catalyst of medical innovation, a way to find cures to diseases that have confounded doctors and make health care more efficient, personalized, and accessible. But what if it turns out to be poison?

Antimicrobial Resistance; patient stories; antibiotic resistant infections;

A gene that gives Salmonella resistance to antibiotics of last resort has been found in a sample taken from a human patient in the U.S.

The donor stool had not been tested for the drug-resistant bacteria before the procedure, the FDA noted.

Workers in nursing homes, hospital ERs and other health facilities are required by law to notify police whenever they notice likely signs of physical or sexual abuse. But that's often not happening.

Fringe practitioners will tell you what you want to hear; medical doctors will tell you what you need to hear.

Millions of people might have had their financial and medical information stolen due to a Quest Diagnostics and AMCA data breach.

Burnout, characterized by emotional exhaustion as well as feeling cynical, ineffective or unaccomplished at work, is bad for both employees and employers. For doctors and hospitals, though, the ramifications can be especially dire. Doctors in the U.S. experience symptoms of burnout at almost twice the rate of other workers, often citing as contributors the long hours, a fear of being sued, and having to deal with growing bureaucracy...

Symptoms of IBD, such as abdominal pain and diarrhoea, frequently mimic or overlap those of irritable bowel syndrome [IBS] and therefore IBD patients with concomitant IBS pose a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma for many physicians.

The number of babies born in the U.S. last year fell to a 32-year low, deepening a fertility slump that is reshaping America’s future workforce. About 3.79 million babies were born in the U.S. in 2018, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.

Thousands of Cuban doctors work in healthcare missions around the world. Some medics say conditions can be nightmarish.

Using data from 950 patients with chest pain, researchers from the University of Turku, Finland, were able to train an algorithm to identify patterns that indicate a higher propensity for heart attacks and cardiac-related deaths. The outcome of these patients was known over a six-year period, which meant the researchers were able to know with certainty if the predictions were accurate.

There seems to be a link between the degenerative neurological disorder Parkinson's disease and your appendix. Just what that relationship might be, nobody can agree upon, but here's what we know so far.