Deborah Balthazar

1 month ago | medicalxpress.com | Deborah Balthazar |Thomas Jefferson

When skin is cut or damaged, tiny cell fragments circulating in the blood, called platelets, arrive at the injury and spread out to stop the blood from leaking out. Once enough layers of platelets accumulate, like stacks of sandbags against a flood, a blood clot is formed, trapping red blood cells. When the break occurs in a blood vessel, the clot contracts to facilitate smooth blood flow through the vessels.

Oct 29, 2024 | medicalxpress.com | Deborah Balthazar |Thomas Jefferson

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a growing public health problem among pregnant and parenting people in the U.S. Between 1999 and 2014, the number of pregnant women with OUD increased by more than four times. This trend also coincides with a rise in pregnancy-associated maternal overdose mortality.

Oct 28, 2024 | eurekalert.org | Deborah Balthazar

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a growing public health problem among pregnant and parenting people in the U.S. Between 1999 and 2014, the number of pregnant women with OUD increased by more than four times. This trend also coincides with a rise in pregnancy-associated maternal overdose mortality. Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University, led by Meghan Gannon, PhD, MSPH, investigated how community-based supports, like doulas, can be integrated into health care for mothers who use opioids.

Aug 29, 2024 | sciencenews.org | Anna Gibbs |Deborah Balthazar |Tina Saey |Susan Milius

Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet's changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? Even more striking, Hill-Maini says, was the fact that the N. intermedia strains found in oncom were genetically different from wild strains, but very similar to strains found growing on waste such as sugarcane fiber in Taiwan and corn cobs in Papua New Guinea.

Jul 22, 2024 | statnews.com | Deborah Balthazar

It seems like organized chaos. Five lab members move around a room the size of a galley kitchen. On this day, three high school students also squeeze into the medical lab, closely peering at a pig heart barely beating in a box. Tubes connected to the heart from a rhythmic, speaker-like pump push warm red blood cells through its chambers. It looks like a scene out of Frankenstein. The heart, which had been kept cold in a liquid bath for about six hours before it was re-animated, appears to be pumping.