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The nosebleeds started in elementary school for Bernadette Guthrie as she furtively dabbed her nose with a tissue lest any classmate notice. “You certainly…
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A person struggling to control their Type 2 diabetes might understand in the abstract the impact of the disease on their health. A doctor, for example, might…
With any highly infectious disease, time can be a killer. It is crucial to get a test result for a pathogen quickly, lest someone continue in their daily lives…
Pathogenic proteins help spread many neurodegenerative diseases. How they move between brain cells is often shrouded in mystery. But scientists at Scripps…
Obstetricians know many new mothers won’t come in for a doctor’s visit in the first four to six weeks after giving birth, a crucial period when they are…
If the threat of death or severe disability isnt enough to convince someone to get a COVID-19 vaccination, men can add this possible consequence of coronavirus…
Friends and family gathered at Amy Westman’s July 24 baby shower. Gifts and balloons and bursts of blue brightened the room. Blue cupcakes. Blue bows and…
It can be a disquieting moment for a patient. A lump or bump is found on their neck. It’s a thyroid nodule. Is it cancer? Many of those patients will probably…
Scientists can grow individual cell lines in a dish and study how the coronavirus infects them. And that’s useful as far as it goes. In a sense, however, it’s…
The symptoms of COVID-19 can be terrible enough in the days and weeks after infection by the coronavirus. Many people, however, soon discover the microscopic…
Getting a vaccination against COVID-19 makes sense for just about everybody. Vaccines remain highly effective in preventing infection, severe disease and…
