Archive: 15/09/2015
Women are less likely than men of similar age, experience, specialty to be full professors at US medical schools
Women physicians are substantially less likely to be full professors than men of similar age, experience, specialty and research productivity.
Sep 15, 2015
Number of people at high risk of fracture set to double by 2040
Nyon, Switzerland A study from the University of Southampton and Sheffield Medical School in the UK projects a dramatic increase in the burden of fragility fractures within the next three decades. By 2040, approximately 319 ...
Sep 15, 2015
Factors for higher risk of death following hip fracture surgery than hip replacement
Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in-hospital death ...
Sep 15, 2015
Researchers document self-reported use of new synthetic drugs by teens and young adults
In recent years, there has been an increase in emergence and use of a variety of new drugs, so-called "novel psychoactive substances" (NPS) in the US and worldwide. However, there is little published survey data estimating ...
Sep 15, 2015
Hookah tobacco smoking seems to be increasing in both prevalence and frequency
Nearly 1 in 5 recently surveyed high school seniors report having smoked tobacco from a hookah in the past year, and more than a third of them reported smoking hookahs often enough to be considered regular users, an analysis ...
Sep 15, 2015