Imagine walking through a park and suddenly spotting a bear. Normally your heart starts beating faster and your blood vessels constrict. That's the sympathetic nervous system preparing your body for a "flight or fight" response. ...
Jun 13, 2024
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As a new space race revs up, propelling humans back to the moon and toward a Mars landing for the first time, mysteries remain about the unique pressures of space flight on humans—especially for those blasting off through ...
Jun 12, 2024
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In June 2016, the German national football team was gearing up to face Slovakia in the European championship. With pulses set to race among thousands of fans in the crunch match in host country France, a group of scientists ...
Jun 12, 2024
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A study of pre-COVID-19 health data has found that Australians over 70 are living longer, but their impact on the health care industry is increasing, according to research by the University of Adelaide.
Jun 12, 2024
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The hearts of pregnant rats with high blood pressure increase in size more than rats experiencing a normal pregnancy, according to computer model predictions. The model, developed by researchers at the University of Minnesota, ...
Jun 11, 2024
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Patients with pre-diabetes and severe obesity who had metabolic and bariatric surgery were 20 times less likely to develop full-blown type 2 diabetes over the course of 15 years than patients with the condition who did not ...
Jun 11, 2024
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The hearts of men and women have remarkable differences in terms of their function in health and the heart diseases that impact them. In particular, there is a major difference between prevalent heart failure types experienced ...
Jun 10, 2024
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Headache, chills, tiredness may be evidence of a supercharged defense, according to UCSF-led study.
Jun 10, 2024
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday has for the first time approved the use of a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for people in their 50s who are at increased risk for the illness.
Jun 10, 2024
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"Don't wake the bear that sleeps" is one of the central conclusions of a dissertation on medication for children before anesthesia and surgery. The effect of anti-anxiety, calming and sleep-inducing drugs can quickly wear ...
Jun 10, 2024
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