Infectious disease expert on variants: âItâs starting to feel like weâre in a game of chess with this virus.â
Infectious disease expert on variants: âItâs starting to feel like weâre in a game of chess with this virus.â By Sabrina Wilson | February 17, 2021 at 6:46 PM CST - Updated February 17 at 6:46 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - As the U.S. makes progress in driving down the daily number of new coronavirus cases, new variants of the virus are not giving scientists a break.
Dr. Hana Akselrod is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Disease Division at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Kanneboyina Nagaraju received his bachelor s degree in veterinary medicine from the College of Veterinary Sciences, Tirupati, India, in 1986; his master s degree in veterinary immunology from the prestigious Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, in 1989; and his PhD in immunology from Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India in 1995. Immediately after completing his PhD, he came to the United States to do a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md.
After completing this fellowship in 1999, he became a tenure-track assistant professor in the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. In 2005, he joined the Research Center of Genetic Medicine, Children s Research Institute of the Children s National Medical Center (CNMC) and was appointed an associate professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicin
Living with a chronic condition like hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) can be emotionally draining. There is no cure, but finding an expert in HS dermatology can help you navigate life with this condition, including when it comes to managing your symptoms. People with hidradenitis suppurativa get painful lumps underneath their skin that can burst open, according to the Mayo Clinic. Many times people go through years of pain without knowing what these lumps are. In fact, individuals with hidradenitis suppurativa usually get diagnosed 7 to 12 years after they first develop symptoms, according to a 2015 paper published in
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“There are different reasons for this, but oftentimes it is because patients initially present to urgent care centers or emergency rooms for the management of isolated painful bumps, which get treated as infections,” Brittany Craiglow, M.D., board-certified dermatologist and associate adjunct professor at Yale School of Medicine, tells SELF. “But typically these
The plight of former NFL players
NFL players, as some extremely visible exemplars of masculine strength, could play a decisive role to play in shifting culture.
By Ian Marcus CorbinUpdated February 16, 2021, 3:00 a.m.
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Julius Thomas (80) of the Denver Broncos gets tackled by Jahleel Addae (37) of the San Diego Chargers during the AFC Divisional Playoff Game at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium, in Denver, Jan. 12, 2014.Ezra Shaw
When our lab set out to measure and map the personal networks of former NFL players as part of the Football Players Health Study at Harvard University, we expected bad news. NFL players famously bear high rates of brain disease, probably as a result of repeated concussions; a six-year study found that there are 0.41 concussions per NFL game. People who suffer from brain illnesses like Alzheimerâs, stroke, and traumatic brain injury (which can result from repeated concussions) tend to become socially isolated. We were, howe
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Beyond Dry Skin: How Eczema Impacts Emotional Well-Being
Adults living with this common skin condition, and its associated symptoms including itch, are more likely to have a negative emotional impact, including feelings of anxiety and depression.¹ Ponomariova MariaGetty Images
For Karina Santana, now 27, eczema (also known as atopic dermatitis or atopic eczema) has been a part of her life since she was 8 or 9 years old when she first noticed the patches of dry skin on her arms. By the time she was a teenager, it had spread to her eyelids and around her mouth, impacting more than just her skin as she started to get bullied about it in school. “Other kids would make fun of my face and just make really unnecessary comments,” Santana says. “It brought down my self-esteem.”