Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Heart attacks, along with heart problems in general, are more common around the holidays. Various factors can play into this, including stress, travel, disrupted schedules, changes…
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Scientists spread festive cheer as research reveals Christmas dinner can be healthy
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In less than a week’s time, families around the country will be sitting down to tuck into their traditional Christmas dinner. While the festive season is…
Why some California hospitals are still struggling after COVID-19
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The COVID-19 pandemic hammered California hospitals by disrupting their operations and pounding their finances. Nearly four years after the onset of the pandemic, profit margins for…
Do genes that code athletic heart enlargement carry a risk of future heart problems?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new landmark study involving 281 elite athletes from Australia and Belgium has revealed one in six have measurements that would normally suggest reduced heart function.…
Study finds clinicians rank patient views as least important in diagnosis
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Experts today call for more value to be given to patients’ “lived experiences” as a study of over 1,000 patients and clinicians found multiple examples of…
Exploring the effects of vascularization strategies on brain organoids
The development of cerebral organoids can offer opportunities to understand neurodevelopment and brain disease but faces several limitations, such as the lack of vasculature. In this study, researchers compare the…
Changes in biochemical, hematological parameters seen before IBD diagnosis
Changes in multiple biochemical and hematological parameters occur up to eight years before diagnosis of Crohn disease and up to three years before diagnosis of ulcerative colitis, according to a…
More people are using CBD products. There’s still little research on the benefits and risks
CBD wax is displayed at a shop in Sunset Hills, Mo., on June 27, 2019. CBD use increased 50% in the past four years, according to a new survey published…
Unstable ‘fluttering’ predicts aortic aneurysm with 98% accuracy
The fluttering instability parameter can predict where abnormal growth will occur in the aorta. Credit: Tom Zhao/Northwestern University Northwestern University researchers have developed the first physics-based metric to predict whether…
Biomedical engineers unveil the dynamics of maternal immune responses
Mechanistic model captures IgG subclass-specific transfer dynamics. Credit: PLOS Computational Biology (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011109 Sepideh Dolatshahi, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia, is spearheading an…
