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Well the numbers from the philippines is staggering. The latest report says 10 Million People have been affected by typhoon haiyan, and one Senior Police official put the death toll at at least 10,000. Getting in and out is a major obstacle. President obama issued a statement about typhoon haiyan. He said, i know the incredible resiliency of the philippine people and im confident the spirit will see you through this tragedy. The United States is providing significant humanitarian assistance and we stand to assist the governments relief and recovery. Now the storms have passed the philippines, ...

People treated by female physicians have lower rates of mortality and readmission than those treated by male physicians.

Researchers say people treated by female doctors tend to have better health outcomes than people treated by male physicians. They say there are a number of potential reasons for the difference.

The study reinforces similar previous findings that women make better doctors, despite making up just 37% of doctors nationwide.

Patients who underwent surgery by a woman surgeon for one of 25 common procedures had lower healthcare costs in the year after the procedure, making a saving for health services, a large Canadian study has found.1 The authors from Canadian and US medical centres, who were led by Christopher Wallis of the division of urology at the University of Toronto, said that they do not know of another study examining the association between surgeon sex and healthcare cost. The population based, retrospective cohort study included adult patients who had one of 25 common elective or emergency surgical proc...