Author: Reuters

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Screening mammograms don’t benefit women aged 75 and older with chronic health problems – such as heart disease or diabetes – that are likely to end their lives before...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – The number of women diagnosed with high blood pressure when they become pregnant or during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy has risen sharply in the U.S. over the last four decades, a new...

By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – A large Australian study is debunking the idea that fish oil capsules can lower the odds of premature delivery or raise the chances of late-pregnancy complications. The study found...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Although doctors often tell pregnant women it’s safest to sleep on their left side, a new study suggests sleeping in other positions may not be a problem. Researchers examined data...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Even when patients live in the same communities, and close to the same hospitals, there are small racial and ethnic differences in where they’re taken by ambulance crews, a U.S....

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women in pediatrics still earn less than men even with similar levels of experience and even after accounting for the disproportionate amount of time they devote to unpaid work at home,...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – The likelihood that U.S. patients with renal failure will get a kidney transplant is lower for those who get dialysis at for-profit dialysis centers, a new study shows. In examining the...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – About one in five kids are prescribed opioids after common pediatric surgeries, but a new study suggests they may do just as well with alternative pain relievers like acetaminophen or...