Due to multiple traumas over the last week, Blood Assurance’s supply of O-positive blood is in need of immediate replenishment. In light of several recent traumas, Blood Assurance is calling on the public to roll up a sleeve and be someone’s hero. Over the last week, the community blood supply has significantly diminished. Multiple emergency […]
A new American Heart Association scientific statement highlights evidence that supports shared decision-making, a term that describes the process of ensuring patients have the knowledge and tools to make decisions about their health in collaboration with their professional health care team. The statement publishes today in the American Heart Association’s flagship, peer-reviewed journal Circulation. More […]
image: Allosteric communication (shown as pipelines) spreads all around the protein structure, revealing multiple binding sites that can be harnessed for drug design. view more Credit: Wijnand J.C. van der Velden, Ph.D., co-first author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow in computational and quantitative medicine at Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope. FINDINGSScientists at […]
A medic group in Chengdu, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, help local residents in need to select drugs and deliver to their household amid a COVID flare-up on September 8, 2022. Photo: IC Along with EG.5, a sublineage of the Omicron variant, being classified as a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization (WHO), the […]
As the travel industry continues to recover from the pandemic and anticipates another COVID season this fall, with public health warnings about protecting Canadians’ health, Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (CITF) reports that, as of MAR, 2023, three-quarters of the nation has achieved some immunity to the virus due to being infected by it. In […]
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Prior infection by a parasitic hookworm has been shown to protect mice from severe SARS-CoV-2 disease, offering a potential explanation as to why certain human populations seemed to fare better during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. “This work stemmed from an observation that certain regions in the world didn’t fare […]
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Swine flu precautions may weigh heavier on the minds of exhibitors, fairs, and fairgoers after two people contracted swine flu after visiting pig exhibits at Michigan county fairs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported these first two U.S. human infections with the flu virus from pigs in 2023 — one that appears to […]
The study found variations in E. coli’s susceptibility to two common antibiotics within the UW Health system in Madison and the surrounding area. Areas with lower susceptibility had a larger number of cases with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Courtesy of Laurel Legenza/University of Wisconsin-Madison
