Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Cholera spreading 'rapidly' across Lebanon: WHO

A deadly cholera outbreak is spreading "rapidly" across Lebanon, exacerbated by a prolonged economic crisis and crumbling infrastructure, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Monday.

Cardiology

Scientists discover body's natural alarm to battle blood loss

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have discovered a cluster of cells in the brainstem that controls the body's response to severe blood loss, a finding that could benefit efforts to develop new treatments ...

Cardiology

Mayo Clinic Minute: Watch for these heart arrhythmia red flags

A heart arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat. It occurs when the electrical signals that tell the heart when to beat and pump blood aren't functioning properly. Some heart arrhythmias can be harmless and just bothersome, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Cuba plans cautious reopening to tourists

Cuba is planning to welcome tourists with COVID-19 tests and limit their contact with locals as part of a raft of measures designed to get its vital tourism industry back up and running.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

WHO troubled by 'near-exponential' growth of pandemic

The World Health Organization said Wednesday it was deeply concerned about the near-exponential escalation of the new coronavirus pandemic, with the number of deaths doubling in a week.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Three billion under lockdown as UN warns virus threatens humanity

More than three billion people are living under lockdown measures as soaring death tolls in Europe and the US on Wednesday underlined a United Nations warning that the coronavirus pandemic threatens all of humanity.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Spain deaths surpass China's as third of planet in lockdown

Spain joined Italy on Wednesday in seeing its death toll from the coronavirus epidemic surpass that of China, as more than a billion Indians joined a lockdown that has confined a third of humanity.

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