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Las Vegas cosmetologist with flesh-eating bacterial infection wakes up for the first time

‘She’s beating the odds’: Las Vegas cosmetologist, 22, with flesh-eating bacteria infection that kills 1 in 3 is awake after surgery, talking and can even stand with help Ashleigh Cope, a 22-year-old cosmetologist, had an outpatient surgery that her family has chosen not to identify before Thanksgiving  The night after the procedure, she was in… Read More »

Assistance during first years of biology major leads to higher retention of first-gen students

For many young college students, the first years are a time of wonder and excitement and early steps toward long-term goals. These years, for some students, are equally fraught with anxiety, as the realities of rigorous curricula set in alongside feelings of unpreparedness and impostor syndrome. In the STEM fields, this results in roughly 50%… Read More »

Where was asthma first discovered

Bronchial spasms featured high on his list, and he noted the similarities between asthma and allergic conditions, such as hay fever, as well as asthma’s tendency to run in families and start in childhood. Future treatments might involve trying to identify and alter the genes that cause certain changes in the lung tissue cells and… Read More »

When was arthritis first discovered

Ananya Mandal is a doctor by profession, key founder and Managing Director of Kibow Biotech Inc. Little was known of the diseases, on the other hand fossil records show evidence that other forms of arthritis did affect dinosaurs, brodie first on to show the progressive nature of this disease and found how rheumatoid arthritis affected… Read More »