…AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT… The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has issued a Code ORANGE Air Quality Alert for Pennsylvania today due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. A Code ORANGE Air Quality Alert means that air pollution concentrations within the region may become unhealthy for sensitive groups. Sensitive groups include […]
FARGO — Vitalant Blood Donation Centers throughout North Dakota need about 4 to 500 donations a day, but since May, the blood supply in the metro has been down more than 25% and some of the supply was used for patients after Friday’s deadly police shooting. Maintaining adequate blood supply is critical to helping patients […]
Breakthrough research has found that Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections are more likely transmitted from asymptomatic throat carriage than skin-to-skin contact in communities with high rates of infection. This major discovery has far-reaching implications for public health approaches, vaccine development and future research as it challenges previous understanding of how the bacterium is spread. GAS […]
Poland is the first country to report “high numbers” of cats infected with bird flu across a large area, the WHO said Monday, adding that the risk of human infection remained low. The World Health Organization said that since Polish health authorities informed it last month of unusual cat deaths across the country, 29 cats […]
SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WXYZ) — Health officials are in the middle of a contract-tracing effort after pigs at the Oakland County Fair tested positive for the influenza A. The fair’s opening day was July 7. According to the Oakland County Health Division, the infections were discovered a week later on July 14. The pig barn […]
Last month, Teddy, our 9-year–old Lab, came up to me demanding scratches behind his ears. Obviously, I complied. But as I was scratching him, my usual comment of “Teddy, you’re a good boy” was replaced with “Teddy, you stink.” I turned to my husband, Teddy’s all-around go-to-guy, and said, “Ed, your boy needs a bath.” […]
image: Rolf Bodmer, Ph.D. and Georg Vogler, Ph.D. view more Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys LA JOLLA, CALIF. – July 17, 2023 – By identifying genes in patients and testing their effects in fruit flies, researchers from Sanford Burnham Prebys have found new genes that contribute to hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a rare, life-threatening heart disease that […]
image: Han Xiao is a Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator, a CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research and an associate professor of chemistry, bioengineering and biosciences at Rice University. view more Credit: (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University) HOUSTON – (July 17, 2023) – Rice University chemist Han Xiao has won a $3.2 million research project (R01) grant from the […]
Cicero, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Cicero Assemblyman Al Stirpe announced that tomorrow, July 18, he will be hosting his 17th annual Lifesavers Blood Drive in partnership with the American Red Cross. C-NS educator saves a stranger’s life; now teaching CPR to students Donors can come to Driver’s Village, 5885 East Circle Drive, in Cicero from 10 […]
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