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A healthy person has a general balance of good and bad bacteria. But that balance is thrown off when someone gets sick. So, to help boost their levels of good bacteria, many people take probiotic supplements live bacteria inside of a pill. Various commercial probiotic supplements are available for consumer purchase, and while health experts generally agree about their overall safety, controversy surrounds their efficacy.
Inside the human body lives a large microscopic community called the microbiome, where trillions of bacteria engage in a constant tug of war to maintain optimal levels of good and bad bacteria. Most of this struggle takes place within the body s gastrointestinal tract, as bacteria help with digesting food and support the immune system. Although health experts b
Feb 4, 2021 11:05am Scientists at Moffitt Cancer Center showed that immune dysregulation can affect the efficacy of Gilead s CAR-T therapy Yescarta in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. (Moffitt Cancer Center)
CAR-T therapy, which involves modifying a patient’s own T cells to better recognize and destroy cancer cells, offers a valuable treatment option for some people with blood cancers. But it doesn’t work for every patient.
In a new study published in the journal Blood, scientists at Moffitt Cancer Center showed immune dysregulation might be to blame for lackluster responses to Gilead Sciences’ CAR-T therapy Yescarta among patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
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Many colleges are starting their spring semester this week, and new data show that schools are bringing students back to campus, with more in-person classes.
Last week, Ayiana Davis Polen finally set foot on the campus of Spelman College a historically Black liberal arts school for women in Atlanta. She s a freshman there but had started her college experience last fall taking classes from her bedroom in Puerto Rico.
Back then, she wasn t sure if it felt like college but then again, she had nothing to compare it with.
Now, she s about to. Spelman, like many colleges across the U.S., is beefing up its in-person offerings for the spring semester. For Davis Polen, that meant there was a spot for her in a dorm on the picturesque campus.
Covid 19 coronavirus: A parallel pandemic hits health care workers - trauma and exhaustion
4 Feb, 2021 06:42 PM
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Sheetal Khedkar Rao decided she could not continue practicing medicine. After a while, the emotional burden and moral injury become too much to bear. Photo / Sebastian Hidalgo, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Andrew Jacobs
Vaccines may be on the way, but many on the front-lines are burned out. Has the government done enough to help alleviate their stress? Dr. Sheetal Khedkar Rao, 42, an internist in suburban Chicago, can t pinpoint the exact moment when she decided to hang up her stethoscope for the last time. There were the chaos and confusion of the spring, when a nationwide shortage of N95 masks forced her to examine patients with a surgical mask, the fears she might take the coronavirus home to her family and the exasperating public disregard for mask-wearing and social distancing that was amplified by the White House
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In a flurry of first-week executive orders, President Biden sent a definitive message that his administration would move faster on climate change than any before. Now, the question is whether it will be fast enough.
Scientists warn that the coming decade will be critical for slowing heat-trapping emissions, potentially keeping average annual global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the mid-19th century. Right now, the world is on track for an increase of 3 degrees Celsius, a level that ensures more destructive wildfires and hurricanes, devastation for coral reefs and rising seas flooding the coastlines.