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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Dr Ray O’Connor takes a look at the latest clinical articles on disease prevention, with emphasis on cardiometabolic health, ...

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

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

Introduction Mobile health (mHealth) technologies have become increasingly popular for monitoring mental health symptoms and lifestyle behaviours, and are largely reported to be feasible and ...

Objective: To address concerns about payment adequacy in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, a 2017 federal policy change increased risk scores and associated capitated payments for community-dwelling ...