Patients could benefit more when receiving flu shots earlier in the year.

The MedDairy diet reduced morning systolic and diastolic blood pressure as well increasing HDL cholesterol and reducing triglycerides.

The procedure is expected to reduce the need for open heart surgery.

Experts suggest current guidelines fail to take the risk of side effects into account.

A quartet of studies calling for overturn of guidelines is off-base, says group.

Renal function should be monitored for complications.

Metabolically healthy obese patients had less deterioration in heart structure and function than those with unhealthy obesity.

But mortality is comparable to patients without the disorder.

Effect driven by higher rate of proteinuria.

Because of low side-effect risk, their benefits carry more weight.

HCV screening warranted for patients with a history of heart surgery before 1992.

Largest cohort study to date finds timing, frequency important.

Cohort study finds sex matters for white (but not black) individuals.

The Aquarius ship has assisted nearly 30,000 people in international waters since the start of its search and rescue programme in 2016.