Introduction: Why Healthy Aging? As the president of ASTHO, I have the honor of issuing a call to action to fellow state health officials and our public health colleagues. The 2014-2015 ASTHO President’s Challenge, Healthy Aging: Living Longer Better, calls upon state health leaders to collaborate with key partners to implement policy and systems-level actions. […]
It takes two to make a baby. Although a woman will carry and deliver the child, a man also has a leading role in pregnancy. For fertilization to occur, his sperm must be healthy and strong to reach and penetrate her egg. To make this process happen, a man must be able to have and […]
New parents are sometimes shocked to discover how little sleep they get in the first six months after a baby is born. They might also be discouraged to learn that their sleep patterns might not return to normal until that newborn is ready for kindergarten. A new study published in the journal Sleep found that […]
It’s poised to be the next pandemic: a mental health crisis, induced not only by the trauma of the novel coronavirus but the ramifications of lengthy lockdowns, lost livelihoods and exacerbated stress, isolation,, and addiction. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has shuttered much of the U.S. economy for more than two months, infected 1.6 million Americans […]
Epidemiology and aetiology of spinal cord injury In the UK, the annual incidence of spinal cord injury (SCI) is 19 new cases per million population, contributing to an estimated 50,000 people who are currently living with SCI in the UK. Age at the time of SCI has a bimodal distribution, with spikes in young adulthood […]
DEMOCRATS’ 1968 FLASHBACK Democrats led the way in breaking America’s political nominating process two generations ago. Can they lead the country back out of the mess today? Much of our current political bellyache traces its beginnings to the undigested bits of the 1968 election. That was the one when Democrats went completely crackers over the […]
The third night of the Democratic National Convention featured the biggest names yet, highlighted by appearances by new vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and former President Barack Obama. Here are five key moments from Wednesday night: HARRIS ACCEPTS HISTORIC VP NOMINATION, SAYS ‘THERE IS NO VACCINE FOR RACISM’ Harris reflects on the past, […]
CALIFORNIA PARENTS SUING GOV. NEWSOM OVER RESTRICTIONS ON SCHOOLS OPENING: ‘WE NEED TO STAND UP AND FIGHT’ “If you have a right under the law, a fundamental right, protected right, and your ability to enjoy that right vary according to some arbitrary criteria like where you live,” that is unconstitutional, Dhillon told Fox News in […]
Sample Processing and Downstream Analysis Some clinical samples, such as skin swabs, are typically limited in volume and have a low abundance of viruses as well as a high background from the host microbiome. The entire process, from sample collection to sequencing, will impact the detection of viral sequences and needs to be carefully tailored […]
Protein engineering describes the process of altering the structure of an existing protein to improve its properties. It is an important technology that increases our basic understanding of how enzymes function and have evolved, and it is the key method of improving enzyme properties for applications in pharmaceuticals, green chemistry, and biofuels. Protein engineering can […]
