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About one percent of the world population is born with a congenital heart defect, which affects about 40,000 U.S. births each year, but how these particular birth defects come about is largely unknown. In an effort to learn more about how the heart develops, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have …
In an unexpected discovery, Georgetown University Medical Center researchers have identified what appears to be a significant vascular defect in patients with moderately severe Parkinson’s disease. The finding could help explain an earlier outcome of the same study, in which the drug nilotinib was able to halt motor and nonmotor (cognition and quality of life) …
Smoking during pregnancy is a documented risk factor for premature birth, low birth weight, and miscarriage. Colleagues from Stanford University and the University of Arizona have developed a human embryonic stem cell model to demonstrate how nicotine adversely affects different cell types in developing embryos, as published in Stem Cell Reports. Nicotine containing products …
Deniers of climate change often cite misleading and esoteric information typically associated with daily weather not the overall increase in global temperatures. Such unlearned views of skeptic rarely bother to take into consideration how climate change may impact human biology. The Journal of the American Heart Association has published a study from an international team …