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Is anyone going to the APHA meeting at the end of October? It will be my first and it would be great to meet some people! #publichealth#epi#APHA
We are facing IV fluid shortages AGAIN after a hurricane - Same thing after Maria shut down IV fluid plants in PR. And who can forget COVIDā¦ Bc we continue to ignore the lessons from prior emergencies: we need to diversify manufacturing of core medical supplies www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Baxter International said it would temporarily close production at its North Cove, North Carolina-based facility, raising concerns about a potential nationwide shortage.
Long-read metagenomics empowers precise tracking of bacterial strains and their genomic changes after fecal microbiota transplantation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.30.615906v1
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has revolutionized the treatment of recurrent Clostridioides
Babies under six months can't be vaccinated directly against COVID. A new study found that most infants hospitalized for COVID had mothers who didnāt get the vaccine while they were pregnant.
Babies under six months can't be vaccinated directly against COVID. A new study found that most infants hospitalized for COVID had mothers who didnāt get the vaccine while they were pregnant.
Really good post on Mastodon from a friend: triangletoot.party/@beckett/113...#NC#USA#Helene2024#tropicalWX#NorthCarolina
This op-ed by Mark Seidner & Rochelle Walensky is š„. They call for a"new mandate for global drug and vaccine development research in low- & middle-income settings that requires a licensing, manufacture, pricing, and distribution plan prior to the conduct of trials." www.statnews.com/2024/09/18/l...
The process for translating clinical trial results into action for young women in Africa has been left to our imaginations, write Mark Siedner and Rochelle Walensky.
In the US, and as I show in Holding It Together, we "solve" the care work problem by underpaying care workers and pushing that work onto women--disproportionately women of color--by limiting their other options career-wise, especially if they have kids. 2/ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on womenāwomenĀ who are tasked with holding society...