Researchers use bacterial strains to measure host gene expression in mouse model
The bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizes the nasopharynx and can cause pneumonia. Then, it can spread from the lungs to the bloodstream and cause organ damage.
This opportunistic pathogen commonly infects young children, those who are immunocompromised and the elderly. In 2015, S. pneumoniae infections worldwide killed an estimated 192,000 to 366,000 children under age 5.
To understand how this pathogen adapts to different locations in the body, and also how the host responds to the invading microbe, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine measured bacterial and host gene expression at five different sites in a mouse model the nasopharynx, lungs, blood, heart and kidneys using three genetically different strains of S. pneumoniae.
PrEP prescription can make a positive difference in women who inject drugs
When taken daily, pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is a highly effective way to prevent HIV transmission, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now a new study shows that implementing PrEP distribution within a community-based syringe services program gets the medication into the hands of women who inject drugs a population disproportionately impacted by HIV.
The results, from researchers at Drexel University s Dornsife School of Public Health, Dornsife School of Public Health, were recently published in the
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
In the first demonstration project among women who inject drugs, known as Project Sexual Health Equity (Project SHE), the team prescribed up to 24 weeks of daily PrEP, to 95 adult cisgender women those whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. The study was based at the largest syringe services program in t
Presented by UAB’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Eagles’ new series questions the Federal Drug Administration’s policies against blood donation based on sexual orientation, the stigma of queer blood and HIV/AIDS.
Jordan Eagles, American Carnage 6/14-II, 2018, Blood of gay man on PrEP, digital print, Dibond, 55 x 36 in.“Can You Save Superman? II,” an exhibition by artist Jordan Eagles that confronts the Federal Drug Administration’s blood donation policy against the LGBTQ community, will be on exhibition at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2021.
Eagles’ ongoing cycle of art and activism addresses the stigma of “queer” blood and challenges these policies.
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Clarke giving to a worthy cause this Christmas Bahamian tennis sensation Sydney Clarke (shown at left) is home from college for the Christmas holidays and has started a food and toy drive for the Bahamas Children’s Emergency Hostel. The event is set for Tuesday, December 22, at the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association’s (BLTA) National Tennis Complex at the Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre. FILE
It’s the season for giving and a Bahamian collegiate tennis player, Sydney Clarke, is doing just that. She is home from college for the Christmas holidays and has started a food and toy drive for the Bahamas Children’s Emergency Hostel, set for Tuesday December 22, at the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association’s (BLTA) National Tennis Complex at the Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre.