What Black women in their 20s and 30s can do to prevent heart disease
Michelle Bradley Emebo’s maternal grandmother had open heart surgery. Her mother had a stroke at age 37, and her father has vascular dementia that has been...
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WHO says virus strain in India a ‘variant of concern’ as Europe eases curbs
Schools and stores reopened in parts of Europe on Monday, easing out of months of COVID-19 lockdowns, but the devastating outbreak raged on across the sub-continent...
Intense light may hold answer to dilemma over heart treatment
Looking to safely block a gene linked to factors known to cause heart disease, scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus may have found...
Ask the Pediatrician: How do the COVID-19 vaccines work, and are they safe for teens?
Q: How do the COVID-19 vaccines work, are they safe for teens, and how long will immunity last?
US capital to drop Covid curbs for most businesses on May 21
Washington is to lift pandemic restrictions on most businesses and public venues in less than two weeks, with the daily toll of new COVID-19 cases in...
Research team reads minds to understand human tool use
Researchers at the University of East Anglia have made an astonishing discovery about how our brains control our hands.
Brain regions involved in vision also encode how to hold tools
Visual brain areas involved in processing hands also encode information about the correct way to hold tools, according to new research published in JNeurosci.
Preterm deliveries may pose long-term stroke risk for mothers
It’s not surprising that babies born prematurely may face more health issues than those who were carried to term.
Should we panic over declining sperm counts? Researchers say not so fast
A new study from the Harvard GenderSci Lab in the journal Human Fertility, “The Future of Sperm: A Biovariability Framework for Understanding Global Sperm Count Trends”...
Internal medicine residency, fellowship applications up during pandemic
(HealthDay)—The number of applicants and number of applications submitted per applicant to internal medicine (IM) residency and most subspecialty fellowships for 2021 were higher than in...
