Engineering mini human hearts to study pregnancy complications and birth defects
How did your heart form? What triggered your first heartbeat? To this day, the mechanisms of human heart development remain elusive.
May 13, 2024
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How did your heart form? What triggered your first heartbeat? To this day, the mechanisms of human heart development remain elusive.
May 13, 2024
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Australia's childhood immunization program gets very good uptake every year—almost 94% of 5-year-olds have had all their routine vaccinations. But our influenza vaccine coverage doesn't get such a good report card.
May 13, 2024
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Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common congenital anomalies worldwide, which brings a heavy health and financial burden to patients. Early CHD screening and treatment can significantly improve children's ...
May 13, 2024
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Women who enter menopause before the age of 40 are more likely to die young, but may lower their risk with hormone therapy, according to research presented at the 26th European Congress of Endocrinology in Stockholm. This ...
May 13, 2024
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New research being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Venice, Italy (12–15 May) has found that poor muscle health is associated with a higher risk of an early death in people living with obesity.
May 10, 2024
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About 1 in 8 U.S. adults (12%) have tried a weight-loss drug like Wegovy, Ozempic, Zepbound or Mounjaro, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll says.
May 10, 2024
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Discrimination may speed up the biological processes of aging, according to a new study led by researchers at the NYU School of Global Public Health. The research links interpersonal discrimination to changes at the molecular ...
May 9, 2024
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Higher consumption of most ultra-processed foods is linked to a slightly higher risk of death, with ready-to-eat meat, poultry, and seafood based products, sugary drinks, dairy based desserts, and highly processed breakfast ...
May 8, 2024
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Nine of 10 American adults are in the early, middle or late stages of a syndrome that leads to heart disease, a new report finds, and almost 10% have the disease already.
May 8, 2024
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The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the turn of this century.
May 8, 2024
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