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People who’ve lived through natural disasters, such as floods or cyclones, often re-assess their priorities. But for Australians who’ve lived through a severe cyclone, this can affect them in a way that’s received little attention.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health issue. Experienced mostly by girls and women, and with higher rates for single mothers, IPV often goes unrecognized, particularly during pregnancy.

The data from the Launch-HTN trial, announced at the 34th European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection, show that lorundrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, is a safe and effective treatment for people with uncontrolled or resistant hypertension, demonstrating consistent blood pressure reductions across a large and diverse patient population. It is the largest phase three trial of an aldosterone synthase inhibitor for the treatment of hypertension.

Under a new executive order, prescription drug prices will be reduced “almost immediately.”

Males are more than four times more likely to receive an autism diagnosis than females. But a new study by researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine has found no clinical differences in autistic traits between the sexes in toddlers when they are first diagnosed with autism.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved GSK’s Nucala (mepolizumab) as an add-on maintenance treatment for adult patients with inadequately controlled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

The Texas measles outbreak has grown by six cases since the state’s last update earlier this week, health officials reported Friday morning.

Given the rise in brain-based conditions and the growing development and investment in neurotechnologies to target them, it is important to understand how the public views these interventions and whether they would be willing to use them.

A new guideline to diagnose and treat hypertension is aimed at helping primary care clinicians, including family physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists, manage the disease. The new guideline, the first of two from Hypertension Canada, is published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

CIVIL Service Commission chairperson Choolwe Beyani has called on public officers to be committed to duty and ensure that there is efficiency in the delivery of public services. Dr Beyani says the Commission has recorded significant progress in executing its mandate such as the recruitment of over 4, 000 nurses among the cholera volunteers. He […]