On that particular sunny day as Amelle was walking with her family in the North Region of Cameroon, she was bitten by a snake. She remembered the snake making a “sizzling” warning sound but couldn’t move fast enough to avoid the swift bite. She was 25 year old, and 7 months pregnant. Her ...
The human body is a biological machine of great complexity, an understatement if ever there was one. It is for this reason that so much ignorance remains on the topic. Obviously, we have learned a tremendous amount about how the body works but there are many medical mysteries for which we have ...
NEW YORK — Lyme disease cases in the U.S. jumped nearly 70% in 2022, which health officials say is not due to a major increase of new infections but instead a change in reporting requirements. Reported cases surpassed 62,000 in 2022, after averaging about 37,000 a year from 2017 through ...
America is known as a land of sports fanatics. Examine for a moment the attention directed towards sports in this country: from youth sports to the many collegiate athletic events, all the professional competitions, then add in the recent explosion of sports betting, it is a pervasive part of ...
The following information about heart disease in the United States is from our USA National Institutes of Health, referred to as the NIH. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death for men and women in the USA. The NIH Division of Cardiovascular Sciences supports research to advance our ...
WASHINGTON — In Utah, more of Dr. Cara Heuser’s maternal-fetal medicine patients are requesting early ultrasounds, hoping to detect serious problems in time to choose whether to continue the pregnancy or have an abortion. In North Carolina, more obstetrics patients of Dr. Clayton Alfonso ...
