Health and Medicine
This subject area encompasses research and studies in the field of human medicine.
Among the wide-ranging list of topics covered here are anesthesiology, anatomy, surgery, human genetics, hygiene and environmental medicine, internal medicine, neurology, pharmacology, physiology, urology and dental medicine.
Improving Outcomes in Premature Births: Nitroglycerin Shows Promise for Helping Preterm Infants
In a 5-year, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical study, researchers found that giving nitroglycerin to mothers who had entered premature labor led to…
Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates
Researchers at the Royal Free Hospital in London, which now has the lowest CDI rates of any teaching hospital in the UK, investigated the best way to encourage…
New survey evidence on the health and wellbeing of England’s older generation
According to the latest Health Survey for England, nearly two in three adults in this age group suffer from high blood pressure, roughly one in four is obese,…
A safe Folic Acid boost from flour
The research has implications for the UK and Republic of Ireland, which plan to follow the US by adding folic acid to flour to help prevent neural tube defects…
The pregnant pause for eating peanuts: Contrary to medical advice, it's okay for many women to eat peanuts when pregnant
The standard medical advice – given by most GPs and health professionals such as midwives – is based on a 1998 UK Government issued precautionary notice for…
Combatting Chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD)
In a few years, chronic obstructive lung disease will become the third most important casue of death in the world. Today, 200,000 people in Norway have COLD…