Two women who worked as cooks in a children's home in the Buenos Aires town of Coronel Pringles died of meningococcal disease , as confirmed to the PROFILE Ministry of Health of the Province of Buenos Aires. The young women, aged 25 and 34, were treated on September 4 at ...

First of all at the temperature of the water to which we expose ourselves. During the summer there is more occurrence of cases of hives and in particular some physical hives that are allergic reactions that are triggered against a physical stimulus such as heat, cold or pressure. ¨ Cold ...

Emergency medicine continues to sail towards a crisis, even if we refuse to see it now. I've talked about it three months ago, but I'll come back to this because nothing has changed and time is running out. If nothing is done, the emergencies will experience serious problems this year ...

Elon Musk creates a society that will work to push the boundaries of the human brain. Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, now aspires to improve the mental abilities of the human being by fusing brain and computer, using implants in our nervous system. To achieve this, the billionaire ...

The discovery of a protein gives hope to researchers trying to eradicate HIV. French researchers have taken a step further in the fight against HIV. Currently, the drugs that are administered to patients in the form of triple therapy can reduce the viral load in the blood to the point that ...

A host of cancers are not serious and would actually not be detected. Most cancers may be harmless, says Barry Kramer, director of prevention at the National Cancer Institute in the United States, in light of the growing body of research into overdiagnosis of screening programs. At a recent international congress ...

When the sun overwhelms people seek refuge in the shade of a tree or under an umbrella. But how are the plants, which do not have the possibility of moving, protected from solar radiation? This is the question that led the graduate in biotechnology Paula Casati , from the Center ...

Contrary to popular belief, it is not the most educated and affluent people who do not vaccinate their children in Canada. This is indicated by a new analysis of the latest edition of the National Childhood Vaccine Coverage Survey., conducted by Statistics USA in 2013. The survey was conducted with ...

The artificial uterus for soon? Six lambs born prematurely, at an equivalent age in humans to that of a 23-week-old fetus, continued to grow for 4 weeks in a "biosac" imitating the physiology of a uterus, with no apparent damage. Images from this spectacular study, published in Nature Communications, have quickly ...

A clot in the veins A clot that lodges in the lungs is necessarily passed through the right heart, this half of heart that receives the venous blood - poorly oxygenated - veins of the whole body to direct it to the pulmonary circulation, precisely, who will take care of extract ...