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... 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 ...
... The woman, who is unnamed for privacy reasons, was born without a uterus, but received one via transplant as part of a clinical trial at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. The baby was born via scheduled Caesarean section, “healthy and screaming.” [TIME] Why it matters: This is only the ...
... pain. A person with opioid use disorder becomes preoccupied with the search for the drugs. Certain contexts become triggers for their cravings, and those triggers start overlapping in their minds. “The basic view is some people start with the pain trigger [the chronic back problem], but it gets partially substituted ...
... United States each year. Other symptoms include fever, abdominal pain, and the nagging feeling that you need to go to the bathroom. These symptoms usually start a couple days after swallowing a bit of contaminated water — usually at a lake or pond, but also at beaches. In most cases, rest ...
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