The average person will take more than 600 million breaths over the course of their life. Every breath stretches the lungs tissues with each inhale and relaxes them with each exhale. The mere motions… [+11588 chars]
A new study found that older children and those with high blood markers for inflammation (ferritin) were at highest risk of severe multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and admission … [+2265 chars]
A 53-year-old man presented to the hospital after losing vision in his left eye. He explained that he had been given his second dose of Pfizer's COVID vaccine (Comirnaty) 10 days previously. He said … [+10202 chars]
Gay and bisexual men in Florida should get vaccinated against meningococcal disease following reports of an ongoing outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday. So fa… [+5832 chars]
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers demonstrated the relationship between the built environment with a common element and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmi… [+5821 chars]
CLEVELAND—Metabolic syndrome increases a person’s risk for diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, and includes conditions such as obesity, high blood pressure and high blood sugar. In a recent mouse-mo… [+6488 chars]
While smoking rates have declined dramatically in the United States, there are still 35 million smokers. There are few data about whether, and if so, how current cigarette smoking habits among those … [+5579 chars]
