(Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) A woman shows up at the emergency department feeling breathless and sweaty. She feels a pain in her back, near her shoulder blade, that ...

Women have a crucial biological advantage: statistically speaking, they live longer than men. However, women often spend these extra years with chronic illnesses and health limitations. What causes ...

Cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler, MD, stares at the motionless heart below her in an operating room at UC San Francisco’s Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. She’s nearly five hours into a ...

Sex discordance isn’t an explanation for gender disparities in outcomes after cardiac surgery, new data suggest. For men, whether their surgeon was male had no impact on morbidity and mortality at 30 ...

SPANISH FORT, AL, UNITED STATES, May 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Leveraging More Than 15 Years of Experience in ...

PITTSBURGH — In recognition of International Women’s Day, Allegheny General Hospital welcomed local high school students to observe an all-female surgical team. On Monday, students from Avonworth High ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Close your eyes and picture someone having a heart attack. What kind of person did you visualize? Most likely ...

Whether a surgeon’s sex aligns with that of their patient was ruled out as a driver of gender disparities in cardiac surgery outcomes, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American ...

A new survey from The American Heart Association projects that by 2050, nearly 60 percent of women could have high blood ...