YouTube It’s not just idle curiosity that’s got scientists hunting down all the bloody details of a mosquito bite. Bites from these bugs are more dangerous to humans than those of any other animal; mosquitoes kill hundreds of thousands of people each year worldwide, and sicken millions more. Male mosquitoes don’t bite people, but when […]
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Federal Standard May Be Thwarting Some Liver Transplant Patients
by explainingmedicine June 8, 2016For the roughly 15,000 people who need a liver transplant, it’s a waiting game. With demand for donated livers far outstripping supply, patients may spend months or years on a transplant waitlist, their position in the line gradually improving as they get sicker. A recent study suggests that this system may be changing but not […]
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Scientists Seek Genetic Clues To Asthma’s Toll On Black Children
by explainingmedicine June 8, 2016Zunika Crenshaw cringes as a tire swing whips her children around in circles just a little too fast. It’s a sunny afternoon in the park, in Pleasanton, Calif. As her children play, she keeps a close watch on their breathing. She says asthma is in her genes. “You have a family, a person who has […]
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Students Fill A Gap In Mental Health Care For Immigrants
by explainingmedicine June 8, 2016Patricia Becerril comes to Bethesda Health Center in Charlotte, N.C., every other week. And it’s a slog. “It takes her two hours to get here,” says University of North Carolina at Charlotte master’s student Katherine Wilkin, translating from the Spanish as Becerril speaks. “She takes two buses, so coming here, she’s definitely devoted to getting […]