(HealthDay)—Compared with physician models of care, midwifery care is associated with lower odds of poor birth outcomes for low-income women,
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Severely unsettled one-year-olds risk poor mental health, experts caution
Severely unsettled babies with sleeping, crying and feeding problems at the age of one are ten times more likely to
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Chemotherapy patients are at risk from poor food safety practices at home
While chemotherapy is a gruelling form of treatment in itself, the reduced immune system function that it causes can leave
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Poor diabetes control can lead to increased risk of serious infections, study shows
A new study has shown that diabetes patients with the poorest control of their blood sugars face the highest risks
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Older age, ICU, poor renal fcn up risk of opioid OD in hospital
(HealthDay)—Risk factors for opioid overdose among hospitalized patients include being age 65 years or older, being in an intensive care
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In utero exposure to carbon monoxide increases infants’ risk of poor lung function
While household air pollution from solid fuel stoves has previously been associated with child mortality, this is the first study
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Malnutrition is associated with poor prognosis in heart failure
(HealthDay)—Patients with heart failure frequently have malnutrition, which is associated with increased mortality, according to a study published online May
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Practices with poor prescribing performance more likely to prescribe homeopathy
New research published today by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine finds that general practices in England with
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