A study led by biomedical scientist Erica Heinrich at the University of California, Riverside, highlights a critical gap in ...

Estrogen levels naturally fluctuate throughout your life. Here’s how to tell if your estrogen levels are normal for your age, ...

If you’ve ever had bloodwork done, you know that understanding the clinical terms and lab values can feel like reading a foreign language. ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) can be a ...

Oxygen isn't always a good thing. Of course, people—and most organisms—cannot live without it. But oxygen can also be quite ...

Talking while getting your blood pressure (BP) checked can lead to a falsely elevated reading due to the mental stimulation of speaking and the activation of the sympathetic nervous system. Several ...

IN normal persons chronic hypoxia results in polycythemia. This phenomenon has been recognized and studied in high-altitude dwellers, and data obtained from such studies have come to be accepted as ...

Hypermagnesemia commonly occurs in patients with renal dysfunction. Diagnosing hypermagnesemia represents a challenge due to its rarity and the absence of routine monitoring of magnesium levels.

A 70-year-old man with hypertension and insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes mellitus initially presented for evaluation of left hip pain after sustaining a mechanical fall and was found to have a left ...

One of the major roles of the lungs is to facilitate gas exchange between the circulatory system and the external environment. The lungs are composed of branching airways that terminate in respiratory ...

Edited by Lisa Tauxe, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, and approved January 7, 2021 (received for review October 4, 2020) The locations of Jameson Land (JL) and some other Late ...