Patients are more likely to survive if treated by a female doctor, new research suggests. US researchers examined more than 775,000 medical insurance claims between 2016 and 2019, noting how many ...

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 ...

Hospital patients treated by female doctors are less likely to die, reveals new research. And female patients are more likely to benefit from the "gentle touch", according to the study.

If male doctors were able to do as well as their female counterparts when treating elderly patients in the hospital, they could save 32,000 lives a year, according to a study of 1.5 million ...

That was what one of my colleagues said on Facebook the day this study, from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was published saying that male and female physicians have different patient ...

But when the doctor shares something in common with a patient — like a female doctor treating a woman — they’re more likely to ask questions that will lead them to a fuller picture of what ...