People with Lynch syndrome are at an increased risk for a variety of cancers, especially of the colon, but also other parts of the gastrointestinal tract — stomach, small intestine, pancreas and bile ...

Patients treated by female doctors fare better than patients treated by male doctors, according to new research published Monday, despite the field struggling to improve female representation in ...

Patients treated by female doctors have a lower mortality rate when compared to patients treated by their male counterparts, a new study suggests. Researchers found this was especially true for female ...

“Female and male physicians practice medicine differently," one of the study's authors said Getty A new study says hospital patients — particularly women — are less likely to die or be readmitted when ...

When treated by female physicians, patients experience lower rates of both mortality and hospital readmission. That’s according to a new study reported by the University of California. “What our ...

Patients who are treated by a female physician could live longer and have a reduced risk of hospitalization, new research has found. These benefits were seen more in female patients compared to males, ...

Seeing a female doctor could be better for longevity, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine Monday. Both male and female patients have a greater chance of death or ...

Although older patients with dementia have similar rates of colonoscopy-related complications as patients without dementia, they have higher rates of other non-procedural complications, according to a ...

The study, published April 23 in Annals of Internal Medicine, used a 20% random sample of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries hospitalized with medical conditions between 2016 and 2019 and treated ...

I am a 79-year-old female who is currently on biannual infusions for osteoporosis and high cholesterol. In 2018, I was diagnosed with Lynch syndrome with an MSH6 deviation. The genetic testing was ...