Chronic diseases require a lifetime of long-term follow-up. Randomised controlled trials are considered the most robust ...

As financial actors including private equity funds increasingly buy and sell hospitals, nursing homes, and physician ...

The data presented support use of MR vaccine at 6 months to protect young infants during measles outbreaks and in settings ...

In epidemiological, genetic, and intervention studies, mixed dyslipidaemia, characterised by elevated concentrations of total ...

For decades, the management of coronary artery disease has focused on epicardial obstruction and ischaemia, which is often recognised too late for long-term intervention. This approach limits the ...

For decades, the clinical approach to coronary artery disease has been centred on the acute effects of coronary occlusion and ...

Japan's social health insurance system ensures universal coverage1 but restricts eligibility to residents with a minimum stay of three months. Consequently, short-term visitors, temporary residents, ...

Cancer screening tests can be divided into early detection and preventive tests.1 Early-detection tests (eg, mammography for ...

I spent an afternoon at Keats House in Hampstead, London, UK. John Keats (1795–1821) began an apprenticeship to a ...

Overactive bladder is a chronic condition that affects 10–45% of women worldwide;1 however, more than half of women ...

The treatment of many patients with peripheral artery disease is not optimal, and indeed is much worse than that in patients ...

Japan's health gains over the past 30 years are now stalling, with rising regional disparities. The increasing burdens of ...