A Major Public Health Issue: The High Incidence of Falls During Pregnancydoi:10.1007/s10995-009-0511-0Kari DunningGrace LemastersAmit Bhattacharya
One of the many health categories Apple Watch can track is "Cardio Fitness," or VO2 max, which tracks the maximum amount of oxygen your body can intake while you work out. It's also known as cardiorespiratory fitness, and the numbers the smartwatch tracks and displays are an estimate. H...
CHICAGO, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Lung cancer will continue to be a significant health problem in the United States although smoking-related lung cancer rates are expected to drop dramatically over the next 50 years, the University of Michigan (UM) researchers said. The researchers utilized four ind...
When it comes to the US, the main issue is Washington's demand that Britain weakens its agricultural and food standards. We're far more aligned with the EU on that front, with higher standards, meaning none of that chlorinated chicken you've likely heard ...
Osteoporosis, as defined by densitometric measurement, is a major cause of fragility fractures, and affects approximately 21% of women aged 50–84 in the EU and 15.4% of women aged 50 and older in the US [1,2]. Fragility fractures not only lead to poor health and social outcomes such as...
As a sensitivity analysis, we conducted a meta-analysis for each ancestry/ethnic group for clinical depression, comprising studies in which MD was ascertained by structured clinical interviews or medical healthcare records following the International Classification of Diseases (ICD9)/10 or the Diagnostic...
Magnitude, temporal trends, and projections of the global prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Glob Health. 2017;5:e888–97. Article PubMed Google Scholar Congdon N, O’Colmain B, Klaver CC, Klein R, Muñoz B, ...
Quarantine and isolation (Q&I) have become major control measures in the face of infectious diseases of global significance. Over the last ten years, Q&I have impacted global health space because of their relevance in managing the spread of infectious diseases such as Zika, monkeypox (Mpox),...
Health care, aides argue, allows the White House and Biden reelection campaign to tout Biden’s record, call for more action and attack Trump all at once – plus connect it to the massively potent issue of abortion rights, by talking about it as a matter of reproductive health. ...
LGBT people of all ages have experienced health inequalities, but researchers have begun to delve into the consequences of a lifetime of that inequity – and what happens to their health as they grow older. "They've been relatively invisible, undercounted and underserved," said Dr. Karen Fredri...