Although heart transplantation is the preferred therapy for appropriate patients with advanced heart failure, the presence of concomitant renal or hepatic dysfunction can pose a barrier to isolated ...

To serenade with their high-pitched songs, singing mice inflate a throat sac — a use for air sacs seemingly unknown in any ...

Oral melanoma is a rare cancer that forms in the mucosal tissues of the mouth. There may be no early symptoms, or a person may notice an area that is black or brown, with areas of gray, red, purple, ...

It’s not the kind of thing you can just pick up and move. With thousands of pipes, tall wooden cases, pedals and keyboards, the Casavant War Memorial Organ at the University of Alberta is a behemoth ...

A bump on the roof of the mouth is usually caused by a minor condition, like a canker sore. Oral cancer on the roof of the mouth, though rare, is called hard palate cancer and can include squamous ...

A new imaging technique using a particle accelerator is giving researchers an unprecedented level of detail of our organs, producing scans 100 billion times brighter than a CT scanner. Those 3D models ...

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