New research published in JASN reveals profound sex differences in the detection, monitoring, and management of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Sweden. Efforts to ensure equitable care between sexes could have important implications ...
Jul 29, 2022
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University of Notre Dame Associate Professor of Anthropology Lee Gettler and his collaborators have drawn on data collected over more than 30 years from almost 1,000 men in the Philippines to help shed light on the importance ...
Jun 1, 2022
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Findings from a new Northwestern Medicine study rebut the idea that Black individuals' higher risk of cardiovascular disease is because of biological differences.
May 26, 2022
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A new study helps explain how the virus that causes herpes might change during transmission between partners and over time during a long-term infection within a human host, which could have implications for future treatment ...
May 25, 2022
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About 70% of U.S. adults are trying to lose weight. However, as a result of evolutionary pressures dating back to our most distant ancestors, our bodies are programmed to resist weight loss.
May 2, 2022
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What makes some people predisposed to live and remain healthy much longer than others? That some persons reach an exceptional age has been recorded throughout history. It's tempting to write down such outliers as only the ...
Apr 11, 2022
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African-American adult patients are more likely than white patients to receive substandard gastrointestinal cancer surgery, according a large study led by researchers at Yale Cancer Center. The findings are reported today ...
Apr 4, 2022
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Biological processes such as wound healing and cancer cell invasion rely on the collective and coordinated motion of living cells. A little understood aspect that influences these processes is the pressure differences within ...
Mar 16, 2022
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Pandemics and recessions have the potential to exacerbate existing health inequalities between men and women.
Feb 10, 2022
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Heart valve calcification is one of the leading causes of death in Canada. The condition is more prevalent in men, but more lethal for women. This imbalance is caused by a very limited understanding of how the disease develops ...
Jan 17, 2022
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