Introduction Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and poses an ...

Introduction Duplicate medical records occur when a single patient is assigned multiple medical record numbers within an ...

Early sexual activity, often defined as initiation before 16, is a risky behaviour associated with many negative social and health outcomes. Sexual norms restricting sex till marriage have declined in ...

A five-year image-based study in people with type 2 diabetes found metformin use was associated with lower odds of developing ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu New national data from Australia show that opening self-collected HPV testing to everyone dramatically ...

Children in the PNG highlands have among the world's highest burden of OM. Urgent public health action is required, including health worker training, regular ear screening, and strategies to prevent ...

A key outcome from lung cancer screening studies is the concept of ‘stage-shift’ seen in screen-detected cancers compared ...

Physical aggression by young people toward their parents occurs quite frequently – yet the subject remains taboo. Victims often struggle with shame and avoid seeking help, hoping to shield their ...

Guzmán, P. and Halpern, M. (2026) Effects of Treatment Delays on Colorectal Cancer Survival. Journal of Cancer Therapy, 17, ...

Background Early graft failure within 90 postoperative days is the leading cause of mortality after heart transplantation. Existing risk scores, based on linear regression, often struggle to capture ...

A machine learning model incorporating functional assessments predicts one-year mortality in older patients with HF and improves risk stratification beyond established scores. Functional status at ...

Objectives Female sex and anticitrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) are associated with higher disease activity in ...