Women with postpartum psychosis are making repeated pleas for help before receiving a diagnosis, with the first Australian study of their help-seeking experiences finding that participants contacted health services a median ...
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Top athletes do not have sharper eyesight than athletes who compete at lower levels. Their advantage lies in visual skills that have to work at speed. A study of 598 athletes, led by researchers at the Second Faculty of Medicine ...
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New research in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society indicates that older adults who rely on electricity-dependent medical devices—such as ventilators, respirators and dialysis machines—may face substantial health ...
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Hot weather is associated with fewer babies being born in France and Italy, according to two new studies. Each day with an average temperature of 25°C (77 degrees Fahrenheit) or above was linked to about 360 fewer births ...
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Hearing that someone you love may need heart surgery can be scary, especially when you're also trying to understand an unfamiliar heart condition. In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, treatment usually starts with medication. ...
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When transplant candidates become frail, doctors often worry that they are too weak to survive transplantation. But according to a new study from Northwestern Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh, frailty can be significantly ...
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A bank of biological samples from thousands of Brazilians could help the Unified Health System (SUS), which is public and free, identify people at higher risk of developing certain types of cancer. In the future, the SUS ...
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A Japanese study found that higher postpartum depression scores were associated with greater mother-infant bonding difficulties. Repeated assessments identified varied symptom patterns, including mothers whose bonding difficulties ...
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It's not always patience and luck that get patients off the organ transplant waiting list and into the operating room.
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For some people with disabilities, going swimming or attending an exercise class comes with a worry that many others would never consider: Could being seen to be physically active lead to their disability benefits being stopped?
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