A study in published in JAMA Network Open observed that patients had 12.3% mortality rate when treated by female physicians, ...

If you want to live longer, see a female doctor, researchers say. Patients with female doctors have lower rates of mortality and remission than patients treated by male doctors, according to a study ...

A Canadian study of 958,150 hospitalized patients found 30-day mortality rates of 12.3% among those treated by female ...

When you randomly need to see a medic, you likely end up seeing either a male or a female doctor purely by chance. You can bypass the randomness of whoever sees you by pre-selecting your doctor's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female physicians may be better than male physicians at establishing a good rapport with their patients. (Getty Images) (Jose Luis ...

Last month, an article in The Annals of Internal Medicine reported significantly lower mortality rates for severely ill hospitalized patients treated by female physicians. The results were most robust ...

A recent study by JAMA Internal Medicine finds that older people with female doctors generally have lower mortality and hospital readmission rates. Women’s health expert Dr. Kirtly Parker Jones says ...

Suicide rates among female doctors are significantly higher than those of the general population, a new study finds. Female doctors have a 76% higher suicide risk than average folks, researchers found ...

Studies show your chances of complications or death are significantly lower if you’re cared for by women. When I was 22 years old, a male doctor told me there was no point in checking for breast ...