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Shanghai Should Establish Top Public Health School, Political Advisor Says
A child tries out an throat swab sampling robot at an exhibition in Beijing on Sept. 6.
Shanghai should establish a university specializing in public health as part of efforts to plug a shortage of skilled medical practitioners in this field, said a senior member of the city’s political advisory body, just as China sees a resurgence in Covid-19 outbreaks a year into the pandemic.
Yao Jianjian, a member of the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) proposed turning Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences into the city’s first national-level public health institute.
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Widespread use of antibiotics in human healthcare and livestock husbandry has led to trace amounts of the drugs ending up in food products. Long-term consumption could cause health problems, but it s been difficult to analyze more than a few antibiotics at a time because they have different chemical properties. Now, researchers reporting in ACS
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry have developed a method to simultaneously measure 77 antibiotics in a variety of foods.
Antibiotics can be present at trace amounts in meat, eggs and milk if the animals aren t withdrawn from the drugs for a sufficient period of time before the products are collected. Also, antibiotics can accumulate in cereals, vegetables and fruits from manure fertilizer or treated wastewater applied to crops. Consuming these foods over a long period of time could lead to increased antibiotic resistance of bacterial pathogens or to an imbalance in the gut microbiome. However, most previous monitoring m
MIT faculty defend professor against trumped-up charges related to China ties
In a letter to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) President L. Rafael Reif, a draft of which was posted to Twitter, 100 MIT faculty members issued a resounding defense of their colleague, Professor Gang Chen, who was indicted last week on charges of wire fraud and tax violations and failing to disclose financial ties to China.
The Massachusetts US Attorney’s Office issued a press release January 20 reporting that Chen, the director of the MIT Pappalardo Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory and director of the Solid-State Solar Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC), was charged in a criminal complaint and arrested on January 14.