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 have lower rates of mortality when they are treated by female doctors, new research suggests. An international team of researchers analysed the data from more than 776,000 male and female ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

“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 ...

Urology involves some of the most intimate medical conditions, yet patients don't necessarily always prefer to be treated by a urologist of their own gender, new research has found. In some situations ...

Hospitals have had success applying remote patient monitoring to chronic conditions to help track signs of a patient’s improving or worsening condition between medical appointments. Patients with ...

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 ...

Frank J. Palella Jr, MD: Measures that we undertake to positively reinforce a patient’s decision to initiate therapy, to keep them in care, to keep them following up, include this village of health ...

New research released last week suggests that sex matters when it comes to surgery. Researchers examined the sex of the surgeon and the sex of the patient in over a million surgeries and found that ...

Patients who were treated by female physicians had a lower in-hospital mortality rate than patients who were treated by male physicians, according to results of a retrospective cross-sectional study. ...