Emergency workers need standard health checks to prevent heart events on the job
Firefighters, police and health staff could benefit from regular check-ups and monitoring to avoid heart events at work that might harm themselves or others, according to a review…
Human cost of Covid travel restrictions revealed in new study
New research shows the high human costs and negative impacts of border closures and travel bans during the Covid pandemic for ‘transnational’ individuals and families whose lives span…
For IBS, specific diets are less important than expected
Many IBS sufferers avoid certain types of food and often exclude gluten. However, a large new study from Chalmers University of Technology and Uppsala University, Sweden, does not…
Safer, newer blood thinners are under-prescribed for elderly and at-risk patients
New study in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology finds that frail patients with atrial fibrillation are less likely to receive direct oral anticoagulant therapy, despite needing it the…
Breathlessness in patients with long COVID may signal heart problems
A small study has suggested that COVID-19 patients who continue to be short of breath during physical activity one year after recovering from the infection may have suffered…