Category: 6. Health

Trauma severity is the most accurate predictor of SSI (surgical site infection) risk, whereas ertapenem prophylaxis is linked to reduced traumatic wound infection rates following exploratory laparotomy due to traumatic visceral…

Among patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in a low-resource setting, those treated with adjunctive low-dose glucocorticoids had a lower risk of all-cause mortality, according to study findings published in the New…

For much of the past century, Alzheimer’s disease has been one of medicine’s most daunting frontiers – biologically complex, devastating in impact, and difficult to diagnose early. Conventional diagnostic methods like positron…

Researchers at Touro University Nevada have discovered that tiny particles in the blood, called extracellular vesicles (EVs), are a major player in how a group of hormones are shuttled through the body. Physical exercise can…

Six particular depressive symptoms when experienced in midlife predict dementia risk more than two decades later, finds a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers.

Midlife depression has long been considered a…

Early research studies in Africa that found higher education was associated with a greater risk of HIV have often been dismissed as errors or anomalies, especially once later research suggested the opposite pattern. But a recently published…

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine press release

Giving adolescents living with HIV high-dose vitamin D and calcium supplements can help improve their bone density and reduce the risk of fractures, a new study published in The Lancet…

HIV drug resistance is common across sub-Saharan Africa, with new population-level data showing that more than one in three people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) carried at least one resistance-associated mutation between 2015 and 2019,…

The use of a new narrative nursing model had a positive influence on patients undergoing laparoscopic radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer, according to a recent study from Chinese researchers.

“The routine nursing model itself focuses on the…