Category: Lifestyle

Pregnant women with preeclampsia are far more likely to develop heart failure later in life than those who don’t have blood pressure-related pregnancy complications, especially if it occurs during more than one pregnancy, new research finds. The study of more Read more

Diagnosis of African American children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) occurs at an average of 64.9 months, many months after parents’ first concerns about their child’s development, according to a study published online Aug. 24 in Pediatrics. John N. Constantino, Read more

Each year, nearly 120 million units of donated blood flow from donor veins into storage bags at collection centers around the world. The fluid is packed, processed and reserved for later use. But once outside the body, stored red blood Read more

When cancer metastasizes and spreads throughout the body, it can severely change the prognosis of the disease. It is estimated that metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of cancer deaths. University of Chicago Medicine investigators have found a new way Read more

When doctors are the same race as their patients, it can sometimes forge a sense of comfort that helps to reduce anxiety and pain, particularly for Black patients, new research from the University of Miami suggests. In a study recently Read more

Cancer of the rectum and colon often are referred to together as colorectal cancer, but treatments can be different. And, unfortunately, a recent British study found that treatment for colorectal cancer has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, as people Read more

A discovery that could rewrite the textbooks on neurons could also help us understand the basis of some neurological diseases. For one hundred years, scientists believed that nerve cells always stayed separate and never fused, but University of Queensland (UQ) Read more