Tag: patients

The finding that more than six in ten men at Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital already had high-risk disease when first ...

The distinction between the two analytical frameworks used in this study deserves closer attention, because it speaks directly to how ...

For children whose bladders misbehave because their nervous systems do, the stakes of a routine diagnostic exam are quietly enormous. ...

Cochlear implants have transformed the treatment of severe hearing loss, allowing adults who once struggled to follow even shouted conversation ...

Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis, a devastating fungal infection once considered almost exclusively a threat to patients with depleted neutrophil counts, is ...

For patients with gastrointestinal cancer, the operating room is only one part of the battle. A new study suggests that ...

Heart failure remains one of medicine's most stubborn revolving doors: patients leave the hospital, only to return within months, sometimes ...

Dementia is quietly becoming one of the defining public health challenges of the twenty-first century. As populations age, the global ...

One of the most feared drug-resistant bacteria in the world has just become more dangerous still. A prospective study from ...

The human heart never beats with metronomic precision. Between every two beats, tiny fluctuations in timing—measured in milliseconds—reveal a constant ...