Officials, advocates seek to solve confusing, frustrating vaccine signup
CVS Pharmacist Sandra Balbino administers a COVID-19 vaccine at Overlook Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice on Amherst Road in Sunderland. Staff Photo/Paul Franz
Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. AP PHOTO
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The state’s Phase 2 vaccine rollout is off to a weak start because while plans on paper suggest those 75 years old and older will be able to start being vaccinated Monday, there doesn’t seem to be enough vaccines in Franklin County to make that happen. Plus, seniors are having a difficult and frustrating time trying to register for their first dose.
Jim Lumley learned to appreciate nature’s beauty at an early age.
His parents, the late Mabel and Al Lumley, planted extensive lilac bushes on the family’s Pelham property, which for decades has been a popular visiting site for lilac lovers, picnickers and people who simply enjoy the variety of color. The property’s name says it all: Lilacland.
Lumley, who’s now 75 and has run Lilacland for about 30 years, was so inspired by the colors and light that he took up landscape painting as an adult, first as a hobby and then very seriously.
When he was about 40, he sold his real estate company and went to study in Cape Cod with Henry Hensche, a noted impressionist painter who in turn had studied with one of the first American impressionists, Charles Hawthorne, in the early 1900s.
THE VACCINE WAIT: As The Eagle is reporting elsewhere in this news cycle, frustration continues over where and when people who qualify can be vaccinated against COVID-19. That includes people
United Nations, Jan 27: US President Joe Biden's administration announced Tuesday it was restoring relations with the Palestinians and renewing aid to Palestinian refugees, a reversal of the Trump administration's cutoff and a key element of its new support for a two-state solution to the decades-old conflict agreed to by Israelis and Palestinians.
New method replicates bone tissue complexity, bone remodeling processes
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst s Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) have developed a technique to replicate bone tissue complexity and bone remodeling processes.
This breakthrough could help researchers further their study of bone biology and assist in improving development of drugs for osteoporosis.
Published in
Science Advances, the researchers developed a new biomaterial they call demineralized bone paper. The team includes Jungwoo Lee, Yongkuk Park, Ryan Carpenter, chemical engineering; Eugene Cheong, biochemistry and microbiology; Jun-Goo Kwak, molecular and cellular biology graduate program; and Jae-Hyuck Shim of the UMass Medical School in Worcester.