For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds ...
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Coffee is best known, and perhaps most valued, for its caffeine and its ability to make us feel more awake and alert. But coffee is much more than caffeine dissolved in hot water.
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Chronic stress from people's everyday lives may be causing lasting structural changes to the heart, harming health and reducing life expectancy.
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When mice heard a sound they thought signaled danger, they moved closer to a familiar companion, according to Virginia Tech researchers. They did not do the same when paired with a mouse they didn't know. The study, led by ...
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Emergency medicine physician-researchers at the University of Cincinnati have shown that a targeted quality improvement campaign can safely reduce unnecessary head and cervical spine (neck) computed tomography (CT) scans ...
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A UVA Health doctor and other leading national experts have developed new guidelines to improve care for patients who develop sepsis, a dangerous full-body infection that kills at least 350,000 Americans every year.
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Millions of people around the globe might never know the taste of a PB&J sandwich or crème brûlée because of severe peanut and egg allergies. For a long time, avoiding exposure to allergy-causing foods early in life was considered ...
Muscle strain injuries are a common problem in sports, and injuries to the triceps surae, the calf muscle group that includes the gastrocnemius and soleus, can significantly affect athletic performance and return to play. ...
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Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have identified a protein that may help an aggressive form of breast cancer spread to the brain and escape the body's immune defenses.
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Every time a person sees a doctor, the visit produces two kinds of records. There are the tidy checkbox fields: the billing codes, the lab values, the prescription entries. And there is the note the clinician actually writes, ...
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