Although rates of anaphylaxis appear to be increasing with no rise in fatalities elsewhere in the world, rates of fatalities due to anaphylaxis are increasing in Brazil, according to a study publishe… [+3965 chars]
Heart disease is so deadly in part because the heart, unlike other organs, cannot repair itself after injury. That is why tissue engineering, ultimately including the wholesale fabrication of an enti… [+4484 chars]
Genes and lifestyle factors together play a role in stroke risk. However, even for people at high risk for stroke, adopting a healthy cardiovascular lifestyle may significantly lower the risk of stro… [+5536 chars]
If you've spent too much time on the Internet (or the Internet from a parallel universe before you slipped into this one), you may have heard of the Mandela Effect. Named after people misremembering … [+5662 chars]
INDIANAPOLIS—Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health are learning more about what happens to the body when someone develops severe alcoholic hepat… [+3230 chars]
In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers investigated a potential association between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination and sudden sensorineural hearing los… [+5084 chars]
Violence, violence everywhere Things were much better in her new role, where she worked as a junior to gender-based violence (GBV) researcher Rachel Jewkes. At first, the pair had set out to focus… [+2675 chars]
Introduction Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia that affects multiple organs and systems. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) accounts for 90–95% of the po… [+29441 chars]
Acinetobacter species (spp) have emerged as important health care associated pathogens due to their array of intrinsic resistance mechanisms and propensity to acquire additional resistance mechanisms… [+15160 chars]
They say one can’t out-run a bad diet — turns out, there might be some truth to this adage. According to a new, large-scale study, exercising can’t compensate for an unhealthy diet — especially in te… [+2726 chars]
It is known that SARS-COV 2 colonizes the gastrointestinal tract, replicates actively, and even persists for a long time with passage into the bloodstream, which may explain the long COVID. The corre… [+10417 chars]
Forget what you thought you knew about catching COVID-19 more than once. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, keeps evolvingand so has information about your risk of being reinfected. "Two ye… [+5251 chars]
