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Most black adults have high blood pressure before age 55
Approximately 75 percent of black and men women are likely to develop high blood pressure by the age of 55,
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Why heart function is reduced at high altitude
For over a century, we have known that high altitude reduces the amount of blood the heart pumps around the
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New portable malaria screening instrument developed: Diagnostic method exploits magnetic properties of parasite byproduct to detect all strains in low-resource environments
According to the World Health Organization, over 216 million people were infected with malaria in 2016, and 445,000 individuals died
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Dehydration prompts more blood feeding by mosquitoes
When it’s hot and dry, mosquitoes like nothing more than the refreshing taste of you. Biologists with the University of
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Look! Down in the petri dish! It’s a superplatelet! Bioengineer endows platelets with extra powers to rescue blood clotting process
Blood platelets have one main job: Stop bleeding by forming clots. Sometimes, however, these tiny cell fragments fail when they
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Higher blood pressure before pregnancy may increase miscarriage risk
Elevated blood pressure before becoming pregnant and early in pregnancy may increase the risk of pregnancy loss, even if the
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