Every day, hospitals throughout the U.S. transfuse blood or blood components, such as platelets, to save the lives of people who are in car crashes, and victims of fires and other emergencies.

EMS machines are a popular option for managing PAD – but a vascular surgeon explains why they should be a supplement to ...

In a world first, researchers from Flinders University have applied advanced gene editing to explore how an enzyme, made famous in the COVID-19 pandemic, plays a pivotal role in the healthy ...

It's estimated that around 13.4 million infants are born prematurely around the world, and preterm north complications are a ...

Delaying umbilical cord clamping allows vital nutrients to transfer to newborns, improving iron levels. WHO recommends ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered how proteins expressed in umbilical cord blood at birth evolve during gestational development and could serve as biomarkers to inform new precision ...

Medically reviewed by Alicen Nelson MD, MPH The navel, also known as the belly button or umbilicus, is a small, round, or ...

The Cleveland Clinic describes the vital role of a healthy placenta. It's a temporary organ that forms in the uterus, or womb ...

This is due to the design of the placenta. The maternal uterine blood vessels and the fetal umbilical blood vessels run in parallel and oxygen is exchanged passively. Consequently, fetal oxygen ...

A recent study by Global Fishing Watch has uncovered an immense quantity of previously untracked vessel activity at sea. The ocean has long been a vast and mysterious frontier, covering over 70% of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Chinese coast guard ships and a Chinese navy helicopter harassed a group of Philippine fisheries vessels ...

Environmental biologists tested the effects of microplastics on the brains of young male mice, taking pictures of the blood vessels in their brains and observing their behavior. They found a new ...