SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can damage the heart even without directly infecting the heart tissue, a study has found. The research, published in the journal Circulation, specifically looked at damage to the ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Wildfire smoke, smog and pollution are increasingly present in the air we breathe. What is this polluted air doing to our bodies? Two University of Chicago Medicine pulmonary experts—Director of Rhinology and Allergy Jayant ...
Jul 31, 2023
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Humans are just so naked. Where many creatures have scales or spines—or even a shell—humans have a soft, sweaty, stretchy layer of skin standing between the world and our internal organs.
May 3, 2023
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Cancer is an evolutionary disease. The same forces that turned dinosaurs into birds turn normal cells into cancer: genetic mutations and traits that confer a survival advantage.
May 2, 2023
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Getting the flu isn't fun for many reasons, but it can also trigger a heart attack, a new study suggests.
Mar 29, 2023
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Chilly weather and common respiratory infections often go hand in hand.
Dec 10, 2022
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Shift work means businesses and organizations can be productive for 24-hours a day. It was initially adopted to protect camps or cities against predators, enemies or disasters.
Nov 29, 2022
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A new study from UCLA researchers identified an animal model that could be used to study treatments for improving disabilities in multiple sclerosis patients.
Oct 25, 2022
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When real patients have unprecedented positive outcomes to a new treatment, it's tempting to talk about it as "breakthrough" for medical science. This describes the excitement around a new report from researchers in Germany ...
Sep 19, 2022
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Chronic heart failure—also known as cardiac insufficiency in medicine—is the most common reason for hospital admissions and one of the most frequent causes of death in the western world. In Germany alone, 4 million people ...
Sep 2, 2022
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