Not only does a push for a chickenpox vaccine protect a child and his or her classmates, it can also protect grandparents who may not have had chickenpox. Protecting the elderly is also the idea behind another vaccination that many of us line up for each winter: the flu shot. Between 12,...
"There is absolutely no chance that you can catch the flu from the flu shot," says Dr. Bradley. Sometimes the flu vaccine is mismatched to the particular virus so the protection isn't there, or these people were already coming down with the flu when they got the vaccine. After all thes...
It was an investment, sure, but one that I think is well worth it. The other benefit? Air purification and ventilation is way, way less controversial. Who doesn’t want to breathe clean air after all? But unfortunately, there just hasn’t been much effort to make that happen. You’d ...
One thing that sometimes helps is to look for patterns in the appearance of new appointments. For example, when I heard that the pharmacy chain Walgreens was going to begin giving out vaccines in my area, I spent a couple of days going onto the site, and suddenly realized that there was ...
No matter what brings you to this article, we’re here to shed some light on the pharmacist’s career path: what they do, how much they earn, what their work environment is like, and how you could go about becoming one. Let’s answer some questions!
Here's some news about a discovery that could change the way osteoporosis is diagnosed, making DXA (previously DEXA) scans obsolete. It would also be quicker, safer, and potentially much less expensive. Dr. Mark Towler, a researcher at the University of Limerick in Ireland, found that disulph...
Queue-it combats vaccine-seeking bots and spoofers much the same way it fights concert ticket scalpers. That includes monitoring registrants’ behavior to make sure they’re real, such as by detecting whether registration attempts are coming from multiple devices at the same time and location. ...
97.Polar Ice Melt– Monitoring the polar ice melt using satellites like GOCE and GRACE that measures how much mass is on Earth. (GOCE and GRACE Satellites) Aquatics 98.Stream Order– Defining stream size based on a hierarchy of tributaries the Strahler Index (or Horton-Strahler Index) – an...
New York's 2023 budget is said to make historic investments in critical areas. Here's everything you need to know.
Uber has moved the distribution off the street corner and into the mobile device, which tells riders how much their ride will cost based on real-time demand, weather, distance, and current traffic conditions—take it or leave it. Instead of wondering how long it will take to hail a cab,...