KUALA LUMPUR, August 19 Heart attacks are on the rise among young adults, and its becoming alarmingly apparent that heart disease is not only a concern for the elderly. Heres a troubling fact to hi… [+3383 chars]
Sleeve gastrectomy jumped in popularity after Medicare began covering the bariatric procedure in 2012, a serial cross-sectional study showed. Among over 76,000 Medicare beneficiaries with obesity wh… [+3708 chars]
Aug. 18, 2022 Here's another vote for less screen time. Tracking blood pressure with a smartphone app won't lead to any greater drop in blood pressure than simply self-monitoring with the kind of dev… [+2138 chars]
The monkeypox outbreak in the US is spreading, but there are vaccines and other treatments available. Because the outbreak is ongoing, more people will be diagnosed with or exposed to monkeypox in t… [+11720 chars]
<ul><li>U.S. FDA approved facility operated by Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing will assist in filling of already manufactured bulk vaccine to expedite deliveries of monkeypox vaccines to the U.S.</… [+6677 chars]
Human serum, the fluid found in blood that contains all of an individual's antibodies, allowed the researchers to understand the total body immune responses to all gut microbes. They also used high-t… [+910 chars]
Six years ago, Kim Bowles had a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. Instead of opting for reconstruction, she decided to go "flat." At 35, she had already breast-fed b… [+10882 chars]
A vial of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine is pictured at the International Community Health Services clinic in Seattle, Washington, U.S., March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson/File Pho… [+948 chars]
Photographer Marcella Pace has captured the many color shades of the sun and put them together in one image to conceptualize infinity. Coupled with a similar image made up of different moons, the I… [+2491 chars]
<ul><li>A new study has investigated the effects of vitamin D supplementation on depression. </li><li>The researchers found that vitamin D supplements have a small to moderate effect on depressive sy… [+7686 chars]
A team of researchers at Stanford University, working with two colleagues from Fudan University and another from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has found evidence suggesting that genetic var… [+2830 chars]
New findings from a 4-year longitudinal study suggest that both greater baseline retinal nonperfusion and the presence of predominantly peripheral lesions (FA-PPL) on ultra-widefield fluorescein angi… [+3224 chars]