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New research indicates that patients hospitalized with active cancer were more likely to die from COVID-19 than those with a history of cancer or those without any cancer diagnosis. The findings published by Wiley early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, also indicate those with active blood cancers have the greatest risk of death due to COVID-19.
Deer are not the only mammals to blame for Lyme disease From mice to acorns to climate change, the uptick in Lyme is an interconnected web FacebookTwitterEmail Chipmunks, shrews, and birds can infect backlegged ticks with the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, but white-footed mice are the most common, infection-generating first meal for baby ticks.Weber/Getty Images/iStockphoto Though Lyme disease has historically been blamed upon the overabundant white-tailed deer that host so-called deer ticks, a much smaller mammal scampering around your yard plays an outsized role in the spread of Lyme....
Home / Career Development / Daniel Becker MA'03, Comparative History: Research and Instruction Librarian, Harvard Kennedy School Can you describe your career path and how it has led to your current work? I started graduate school hoping primarily to become an educator; the research aspect of the PhD was fun, but I was mostly looking forward to teaching. I did end up teaching for a while—as a teaching fellow and a summer school instructor at Brandeis, as well as as a two-year visiting instructor at the University of Maine at Farmington—but in the process somehow nev...
Faina Gurevich, Getty Images While March may have come in like a lion with freezing temperatures, the first month of spring is also the beginning of the dreaded tick season, which, according to experts, may also be on the lion’s path with heavier than normal infestations. For 2021, “pest” forecasters are predicting that the warm-weather months in the US will be a boon for tick populations, and the weather conditions could extend tick season beyond the average. While http://www.pest.org has Wyoming and Montana as average for tick populations, the Plains, including Nebraska and the Dakot...
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