Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source ... In our new study, however, we and our colleagues found that doctors might be an exception. Using newly available data linking death records ...

For the first time ever the UK has more female than male doctors, with 164 440 women (50.04%) and 164 195 men (49.96%) registered with a licence to practise, show data from the General Medical Council ...

Everybody knows that women live longer than men—in the U.S., nearly 5.4 years longer. In our new study, however, we and our colleagues found that doctors might be an exception. Using newly available ...

Female doctors are greater in number than their male counterparts for the first time ever in the UK, the General Medical Council (GMC) has announced today. Data collected by the regulator showed that ...

When the medical register was first introduced in 1859, there were almost no female doctors and this remained the case for many years. However, their numbers gradually increased in the early 20th ...

You may have heard that a faster fetal heart rate indicates a girl, while a slower one might mean you're having a boy — but is there any truth to this theory?

In a new analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that female physicians in the U.S. had a 53% ...