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.
Mar 25, 2020
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A Lebanese man died Tuesday from the novel coronavirus, a health ministry official said, marking the country's first recorded death from an epidemic that has infected 41 people nationwide.
Mar 10, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Nikki Moreno had spent nearly a year struggling for breath, and nothing seemed to help.
Dec 17, 2019
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Medical diagnoses mostly focus on resolving isolated issues. But fixing one problem may create others, and even invoke an overall health collapse. Scientists now report a new approach to assess the risks of such collapse ...
Oct 30, 2018
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All things must come to an end. This is particularly true for neurons, especially the extensions called axons that transmit electrochemical signals to other nerve cells. Without controlled termination of individual neuron ...
Dec 18, 2017
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For most prematurely born infants, it's not their tiny size itself that makes life a struggle. Rather, it's the development of their lungs that spells the difference between life and death.
Jun 23, 2017
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Lungs take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide. Yet despite their existential importance, the development of the lungs and the rules governing the process that enables respiration is still not well understood at the molecular ...
Mar 31, 2017
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BACE1 is the major drug target for Alzheimer's disease, but we know surprisingly little about its normal function in the CNS. Soraia Barão and Bart De Strooper (VIB/KU Leuven) now show that this protease is critically involved ...
Sep 14, 2015
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Results from the Fluid Expansion as Supportive Therapy (FEAST) trial in East Africa show that children who are given fluid to treat shock have an increased risk of death due to cardiovascular collapse at 48 hours. These findings ...
Mar 13, 2013
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Box jellyfish of the Chironex species are among the most venomous animals in the world, capable of killing humans with their sting. Their venom, though, which kills by rapidly punching holes in human red blood cells, can ...
Dec 12, 2012
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