Electronics in the “cold chain” that health systems use to keep items like COVID-19 vaccines ultra-cold during storage and transport are surprisingly vulnerable to hacking, but there are ways that health systems can protect themselves. A University of Michigan study commissioned by a major health system found that an attacker located near equipment like freezers […]
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Try These Tips To Keep Your Bathroom Cleaner For Longer
Cleaning your bathroom is likely at the bottom of your list of favorite things to do. After you get the scrubbing materials out, it’s even more irritating to see streaks at the bottom of the tub yet again. Fortunately, there are a few simple ways to prolong your clean once and for all, leaving you […]
How to Keep Your Furry Friends Safe and Have Fun During the Dog Days of Summer!
With warmer weather, many of us will spend more time outdoors with our pets. Camping trips, pool parties, beach days and barbecues are just a few of the ways people might like to enjoy the heat—and often times we want our furry friends to join us. To give you and your best pals the best […]
COVID-19: Men create more antibodies after asymptomatic infections and keep them longer
As COVID-19 has swept across the globe, it seems that high transmission rates have partly been driven by a large number of people catching the virus, not experiencing symptoms and then unknowingly passing it on. Despite this, the screening of asymptomatic people for signs of infection hasn’t been widespread, due to costs and limits on […]
Keep it moving: How a biomaterial mobility may revolutionize immunomodulation
Biomaterials are substances, natural or manmade, that are used in medicine to interact with the human body for various purposes, such as wound healing and tissue regeneration. Previous work on biomaterials has shown that they can affect cells in many ways, including how they grow, move, and the type of cell they develop into. Scientists […]
Cancer vaccine helped keep melanoma under control for years in small study
A personalized “cancer vaccine” may help keep a deadly form of skin cancer from growing for years, a small new study in humans suggests. Unlike vaccines that prevent infections, such as measles and influenza, cancer vaccines are a form of immunotherapy that take down cancer cells that already exist. The vaccines train immune cells, called […]
Alastor’s Story: Compassion and Care Keep a Kitten with His Rescuers
While walking their dogs last June in their Lynwood, California, neighborhood, Cecilia A. and her husband, Milton, noticed two young kittens near a sidewalk in front of a house. “One of the kittens was trying to play with the other one, who just laid there,” Cecilia recalls. When Cecilia approached, the playful kitten ran off. […]
Keep Military Servicemembers and Their Pets Together
Good news for our troops: Congress is on the verge of repealing years of misguided, breed-specific bans affecting the pet dogs of military families. Currently, the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps all have varied discriminatory breed bans that prevent military families from having certain breeds of dogs—like American Pit Bull Terriers, Doberman Pinschers and […]
Cute Baby Playpens to Keep Them Safe & Secure
Even if parents could have eyes on the back of their heads, there would most likely be things they’d still miss, so the best form of insurance is to safely contain your baby in a playpen to make sure they don’t get into any trouble when you’re not looking. Whether you’re doing chores around the […]
Jenna Jameson Is Struggling to Keep Up With Her Keto Diet Amid Quarantine
Jenna Jameson honestly addressed how she’s struggling to stick to her keto diet amid the coronavirus quarantine. “Super ready to get back on a healthy regimen,” the model, 46, wrote via Instagram on Monday, April 27, while sharing a mirror selfie of herself wearing gray onesie pajamas. “This whole shut down has been disastrous to my […]