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 ...

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

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.

Medical research

New diagnostic technique accounts for patient resilience

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 ...

Medical research

From omics' novel glimpses into early lung development

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 ...

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