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... government for the last 20 years since the founding of BARDA has been stockpiling vaccines for smallpox and antiviral drugs. So, if the numbers do start to increase, and we have to vaccinate populations at risk, we can move on that pretty quickly. So, for all of those reasons, we ...
... Alicia Martinez was a first-generation college student determined to help people. The 21-year-old was working toward her masters in social work at Baylor University. She was kind, loved to paint and draw, and had helped start a reading program for young students in her hometown of Waco ...
More than 9,000 people are now hospitalized in Texas, and the death toll there is now above 23,000. Cases are spiking across the state including in and around Houston. Dr. Richina Bicette, of the Baylor College of Medicine and an emergency room physician treating COVID patients, joins Amna ...
... path to approval take longer as scientists seek additional participants to get the data they need. “The studies need to be completed, and if you start allowing dropouts from the placebo to get a vaccine under the EUA and that could confound the study,” Baylor said. “Would the study even ...
... home orders. ”If anything, we would expect higher rates,” said Biykem Bozkurt, president of the Heart Failure Society of America and professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. “We are not seeing the number of patients we should be seeing.” Stress is definitely a factor for Simpson, 53, who ...
... then one day there's going to be half the country infected. It's not going to work like that. If we're going to start seeing an uptick, we're going to hear about focal areas of transmission in a few selected cities. And, gradually, that will increase. So ...
Metagenomics is thought to be a cutting-edge and highly sensitive way to spot bacteria because it can identify species using mere fragments of DNA. When the Baylor team ran the placentas through their metagenomic analysis, they found consistent -- though not very abundant -- signs of bacteria. Dozens of studies from ...
... North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and plans are in the works for the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Diego to start similar programs. (White students are also eligible for Meyerhoff scholarships, but most of the recipients are of other races.) James Alan Kendrick, assistant dean ...
It was actually a gift from my partner, Opiyo. He made me the shirt that said "Well-Read Black Girl," and I found myself in conversation with so many different women. And it sparked the idea that I should actually start something with this. What does it mean to be ...
... spectrum that can be caused by Zika virus infections during pregnancy.” Dr. Peter Jay Hotez, the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has also studied the long-term effects of children born with the virus in Latin America. He says today ...
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