Five days after giving birth, Melissa Crespo was already back on the streets, recovering in a moist, litter-strewn water tunnel, when she got the decision from the hospital. Her baby, Kyle, who had been born three months prematurely, was in respiratory failure within the neonatal intensive care unit and fighting for his life. The chances […]
A recent Npj Vaccines study discussed the success and challenges of developing different tuberculosis (TB) vaccine types. Study: Key advances in vaccine development for tuberculosis—success and challenges. Image Credit: Creativa Images/Shutterstock.com Effectiveness of BCG vaccine against TB In 1982, Robert Koch first identified the TB-causing bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB treatment is expensive and lengthy and will require 6-9 months […]
Tens of millions of deaths and ongoing illnesses attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic have prompted scientists to hunt latest ways of understanding how viruses so skillfully enter and reprogram human cells. Urgent innovations resulting in the event of latest therapies are needed since virologists predict that future deadly viruses and pandemics may again emerge from […]
It is a indisputable fact that exercise makes you blissful, and blissful people just don’t shoot their husbands, they only don’t. (Well, by “fact,” we mean a unbelievable legal argument from Elle Woods, but we digress…) But why does exercise have that happiness-inducing effect? Researchers are getting a greater understanding of the reply to that […]
Discovering Hope in Hashtags: A Father’s Journey Through Parental Alienation and Social Media n the age-old battle of David versus Goliath, I discovered myself, Jacob Maslow, within the underdog role, wielding not a slingshot but my unwavering love for my children. Life had dealt me the cardboard of shared custody after a divorce from my […]