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People with certain blood types are more likely to develop pregnancy hypertension and kidney stones. This was shown by a new study published in eLife. 13107 Scientists from the Karolinska Institute used information from Sweden's complete database of donors and blood transfusions: about 5.1 mill

May 12 is celebrated worldwide as International Nurses Day. MedPortal is once again publishing its classic material about the history of this difficult and vital profession, as well as about the people who choose it. 40081 Florence Nightingale's legacy The idea of ​​celebrating Nurse's Day

American doctors have described perhaps one of the most unusual cases of “interaction” between a person and a tick. As a result of his bite, a seventy-year-old man became infected with several diseases at once. A publication that talks about this is posted in BMJ Case Reports. 40072 A 70-year-old p

Doctors from Malaysia in the pages of The Journal of Emergency Medicine described an unusual neck injury that a woman received after swallowing a fish bone. 45076 A 54-year-old woman felt an “unbearable pain in her throat” when she ate grilled fish. At the same time, she realized that something was

It is not easy to get poisoned with a homeopathic remedy, since the content of active substances in it is negligible. However, such cases do happen. German doctors described one of them in the journal Clinical Toxicology. 39877 A 53-year-old man came to the emergency department of a Munich hospital

If your dentist recommends having your wisdom teeth removed, but you're unsure about the procedure, a new study may put your doubts to rest: It turns out that this common procedure could make you a gourmet. Moreover, the perception of taste improves best in women. 10173 Third molars, also calle

The popularity of plant-based meat analogues is growing every year, but few scientists evaluate the health effects of these products. A recent study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition analyzed the effects of diets containing animal meat versus diets containing plant-based meat analogues

Unlike other anxiety treatments, such as tranquilizers or cognitive behavioral therapy, yoga is quite accessible and has many health benefits. A study by a group of scientists from the USA showed that this gymnastics effectively improves the emotional background not only in adults, but also in child

The largest review of research over 25 years has found that a popular pain and fever reliever during pregnancy should be taken with great caution. The results were published in the journal Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 11520 Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is considered the safest antipyretic and mild

A recent study published in the journal Nature Communications examined the association of COVID-19 with long-term allergic conditions. We are looking into how often people who have had this disease suffer from allergies, and whether there are similar risks in people who have been vaccinated. 3935