Author: Reuters

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Physicians’ employers should commit to gender equity in pay, leadership development, career opportunities, and parental and family leave policies, a leading U.S. doctors group...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Older adults who exercise regularly may have an easier time finding words to express themselves than their peers who aren’t as physically fit, a small study suggests. Researchers...

By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) – Distributing take-home overdose prevention kits substantially reduced the number of deaths from opioid overdoses in a Canadian province, researchers say. “The province of British...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – People with moderate to severe anxiety in middle age may be more likely to develop dementia as they get older, a recent study suggests. Researchers examined data from four previously...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Adults who follow a healthy lifestyle in middle age may extend their lifespan by more than a decade and have a lower risk of dying from cancer or heart disease, a U.S. study suggests....

By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) – U.S. appeals court judges appear divided over whether to allow a research center affiliated with MIT and Harvard to keep patents potentially worth billions of dollars on a groundbreaking gene...

By Will Boggs MD (Reuters Health) – African-Americans admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for heart failure are less likely than white patients to receive care by a cardiologist. “It is important to realize...