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One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child’s heart. The ...

Learn how smart collars and sensors track vitals to ensure a longer, healthier life, and discover how they provide real-time ...

When we experience music or dance together, our nervous systems synchronize. The performing arts may be one of the last places where collective connection survives.

A new California law aims to protect workers from silicosis, an incurable lung disease that has killed 29 people in the state ...

Among infants born very preterm, human milk feeding at hospital discharge is associated with fewer respiratory hospital admissions during their first 18 months than exclusive formula feeding.

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Streptococcus pneumoniae is a main cause of bacterial pneumonia worldwide. It can also cause ear and sinus infections and, in ...

The “9D” refers to nine distinct layers of engineered audio combined with sustained conscious breathing for 45 minutes to an ...

For the majority, breathing is an unconscious process, overlooked in daily life. However, the method of respiration, whether ...

Rising carbon dioxide levels are heating the planet but may also have an alarming, invisible impact on the human body, according to new research.

Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have developed a test to detect ...