Category: 6. Health

In 1973, an American psychologist called David Rosenhan published the results of a bold experiment. He’d arranged for eight “pseudo-patients” to attend appointments at psychiatric institutions, where they complained to doctors about hearing…

Queensland has recorded its worst year in more than a decade for cases of the flu, but experts aren’t sure why case numbers are so high.

According to Queensland Health data, there have been 93,753 lab-confirmed cases of influenza so far this year.

Among patients with ascending aortopathy (AA), women experience significantly poorer long-term survival than men, even when they undergo surgical repair at higher rates and present with fewer cardiovascular comorbidities. So concludes new…

Health New Zealand says there is a new case of measles of Queenstown.

It brings the number of known cases nationally since the…

Men and women with emphysema benefit from endoscopic lung volume reduction (ELVR), although women may have an improved response in symptoms and quality of life, investigators reported in Thorax.

The retrospective analysis…

Socioeconomic deprivation is associated with increased odds of fragility fractures, osteoporosis, and higher regional body fat levels, according to study results published in Rheumatology.

Researchers conducted an…

Adults with eating disorders in England are waiting up to 700 days for vital treatment, according to a report.

The stark figures were revealed in the first report of the National Audit of Eating Disorders (NAED), which looked at access to eating…