Author: Reuters

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Providing scheduled dialysis for undocumented immigrants with kidney failure, rather than offering them only emergency dialysis, dramatically reduces deaths, healthcare use and costs, a...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Early menopause is more likely among women who were exposed to famine in the womb, a recent study in China suggests. Researchers compared the timing of menopause for 751 women born...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – When young boys gain a lot of weight at puberty, they may be increasing their risk of developing diabetes decades later, a Swedish study suggests. Researchers examined body mass index...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Patients undergoing surgery don’t often receive practical advice about what to do and what to expect during the recovery process, says a surgeon who has been on the giving and...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Military personnel trained to change their own brain responses with a neurofeedback program may be able to reduce their risk of experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – The proportion of U.S. heart surgery patients with opioid use disorders has surged in recent years, and a new study suggests addicts are much more likely to develop major surgery...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Jersey health officials have urged more than 3,700 former patients of a surgical facility to get blood tests “out of an abundance of caution,” because they may have been exposed to HIV,...

By Tamara Mathias (Reuters Health) – Forcing patients off opioid painkillers could sometimes do more harm than good, international medical experts warn in an open letter to health authorities. The letter, published in the...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Professional athletes in the National Basketball Association may score fewer points and snag fewer rebounds the day after late-night activity on Twitter, a new study suggests. Sleep...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Doctor moms regularly run up against discrimination, sometimes subtle and sometimes blatant, a new survey finds. “Experiences of discrimination resonate and relate with the...