In 1953, the Swiss novelist Max Frisch published a play called “The Arsonists.” It’s a pitch-dark comedy about a small town ravaged by a group of maniacs disguised as traveling salesmen, who sweet-talk their way into people’s homes and then set them on fire. Its protagonist is a dolt called Biedermann — bieder being German […]
Authorities in Georgia are seeking the public’s help in finding an 18-year-old woman who was last seen on Oct. 30, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says. Since Gabriella Dixon went missing, chilling details have emerged about the case, according to multiple reports. Citing a missing persons report, WMAZ, WGXA and 41NBC reported that Dixon’s 2-year-old […]
Marina G. Birck, PhD, MSc Credit: LinkedIn Despite a history of concern over safety outcome disparities among patients switching to from a reference biologic product to a biosimilar, new research from Canada suggests at least one biologics’ biosimilars are not associated with increased risk of serious infections.1 In new research presented in an abstract presented […]
Seven years ago, Northeastern graduate Susan Dina Ghiassian was the first employee of Scipher Medicine Corp., a precision medicine company co-founded by Northeastern professor Albert-László Barabási. The Waltham-based company where Ghiassian is senior director of data science and network medicine now has 100 employees and recently received Medicare approval for a groundbreaking blood test, PrismRA, […]
A research team led by Dr. Julian Hurdle from the Texas A&M Health Institute of Biosciences and Technology has finally unmasked the genetic reason why metronidazole has become less effective against fluoroquinolone-resistant C. diff. Texas A&M Health Marketing & Communications Researchers at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health) have uncovered why […]
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Consider the freshman. The poor freshman. Never in the history of college basketball has she been less important than she is right now. In fact, every recent development in college sports would seem to conspire against her. An extra COVID eligibility year makes her fight for playing time even harder these days—all those elderly ladies […]
These days, we don’t think much about being able to access a course of antibiotics to head off an infection. But that wasn’t always the case — antibiotics have been available for less than a century. Before that, patients would die of relatively trivial infections that became more serious. Some serious infections, such as those involving […]
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } The Last Frontier Council, Boy Scouts of America and Our Blood Institute are holding a dual fundraising and blood drive in five of OBI’s donor centers. From now through Wednesday, Nov. 15, every blood donation made in the name […]
NEW DELHI: Antibiotics are no longer as effective as earlier it used to be on sepsis and meningitis in newborns. According to recent research, the most commonly prescribed antibiotic in the treatment of sepsis and meningitis in newborns is just 50 % effective, reported NPR. This new research was published in The Lancet Regional Health […]