“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Remember that line from the classic late 80’s commercial? It was for a company called LifeCall, which sold a pendant that would automatically get in touch with a ...
While an increasingly anxious world watched a new coronavirus spread across the globe in early 2020, veteran immunologist Rafi Ahmed quickly grasped that his field was about to experience something ...
(TNS) — It took the shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., just minutes to kill 17 people and wound 17 others. But authorities did not reach him until he escaped the school ...
In the US, COVID-19 has killed more than 1.1 million people, infected more than 100 million, and disrupted lives in ways we are still trying to understand. Our continued public health response to this ...
When pathogens like the new coronavirus attack, the body creates antibodies to neutralize the invader — an important part of the immune response. It’s why some researchers are trying out convalescent ...
The Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) traces its origin to the Metropolitan Medical Strike Team (MMST) concept created by the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area in 1995. The MMST was a joint ...
Dengue viral infections can result in a range of symptoms. Some people show no symptoms or just have mild signs of the disease, but others develop severe complications. How does the body respond to a ...
A few minutes into a lesson on decimals, Nikki Johnson asked her 4th graders at Westside Elementary School to name the fraction that represented the shaded area on a grid she displayed on a PowerPoint ...
The next time you listen to Beethoven’s Ninth or your favorite symphony, try listening to it as an everyday miracle of musical evolution. Picture eons ago, in the Rift Valley perhaps, there was a ...