Your blood-pressure reading probably isn’t as accurate as you think. More often than not, patients and even nurses and doctors are skipping steps that help paint an accurate portrait of someone ...

U.S. crop protection regulation is evolving as the EPA addresses backlogs and introduces new mandates. The Pesticide Registration Improvement Act (PRIA 5) aims to boost transparency and funding, ...

The brain—a highly metabolically demanding organ that lacks substantial energy reserves—maintains constant blood flow in the face of blood pressure fluctuations (autoregulation) but relies on an ...

In the human body, blood is delivered into the brain from surface arteries through penetrating arterioles, or very small blood vessels that branch off from arteries, and hundreds of miles of ...

Pipe systems are important to us, so it’s critical that we can design them to carry the right amount of flow without too much drop in pressure from one end to the other. More for You 20 ...

Burlington, Vt.— A team of UVM scientists led by Mark Nelson, Ph.D., from the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, has uncovered a novel mechanism that reshapes our ...

Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, CEO of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, has warned the black market will continue to grow as a result of over-regulation of bookmakers. Engelbrecht-Bresges, who also is ...

Here, we update the latest molecular mechanisms and players that control NKCC2 function, which gives an increasingly complex picture of NKKC2 regulation in the apical membrane of the TAL ... and found ...

Intensive blood pressure (BP) control in youth with chronic kidney disease (CKD) slows progression, delaying the need for kidney replacement therapy (KRT). Most youth with CKD have hypertension and BP ...