Alexandria Nyembwe is a registered nurse and health writer. She has worked in street medicine serving populations experiencing homelessness in Skid Row Los Angeles as well as in cardiovascular care in ...

Regularly testing your kidney function can help you catch early kidney disease. You can manage diabetes and high blood pressure to prevent kidney disease from progressing. Lifestyle changes, like ...

Aircraft are made up of tens of thousands of individual components, and the smallest pieces can have large impacts. One of these small but critical components is the wastegate actuator, which works ...

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A painkiller alternative to opioids could be tricking doctors into misdiagnosing heart failure, a new study warns. Drugs like gabapentin and pregabalin are frequently prescribed to treat nerve pain, ...