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Dr Phoebe Williams is an Infectious disease specialist working to reduce antimicrobial resistance. In the photo she is working in Kenya. Credit: Hamish Gregory. A new study has found that drugs to treat common infections in children and babies are no longer effective in large parts of the world, due to high rates of antibiotic …

Organizing Product Teams By Features Most product leaders organize teams by features because it’s an intuitive way to split up a product.  There are clear pros of building your team around features including:  It ensures no features fall through the cracks. Product managers clearly understand their role. Standing up a team is relatively easy because …

Introduction Nattokinase (NK), the most active ingredient in natto with an alkaline protease of 275 amino acid residues, molecular weight approximately 28 kDa, was first discovered by Sumi et al. in 1987 (1). It is a potent fibrinolytic enzyme (2) demonstrating many favorable effects on cardiovascular health (3). The effects of NK include antihypertensive, anti-atherosclerotic, …

All of Maui County’s Public Health Emergency Rules are being repealed, effective March 1, 2022, according to an announcement by Maui Mayor Michael Victorino this afternoon. This effects Maui County’s rules only, and not the state’s emergency proclamation. “We only will be able to do this because the new case counts are very low, our …

The two-shot COVID-19 vaccine made by Novavax is 90 percent effective against the disease, the company said today. The Novavax shots are a different type of vaccine than the ones already available: it’s a protein-based vaccine that directly delivers bits of the coronavirus spike protein, which the body then makes antibodies against. Novavax tested its …

Location data can help identify audience segments and purchase intent, based on real-world behavior. It can provide customer insights  and competitive intelligence, says Greg Sterling, Vice President, Insights at Uberall. Greg Sterling Due to COVID-19 outbreak, there has been a sudden spurt in online shopping. Do you see this trend continuing, or will people be …

The study — recently published online in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology – found that after one year, patients who received a multi-component intervention that combined community microfinance groups with group medical visits (where patients with similar medical conditions met together with a clinician and community health worker) had a 44 percent greater …

Pfizer and BioNTech said Thursday that trials suggest their vaccine is effective against a coronavirus variant that first emerged in South Africa, which some experts worry might evade existing shots. The drugmakers also said in a statement that 12,000 people involved in their Phase 3 trial experienced high levels of protection against Covid-19 six months …

Pfizer said Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in adolescents, a step toward possibly clearing the jabs for use in teens before the next school year begins. © Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images A health worker carries syringes to administer Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines at the opening of a vaccination site …

A healthcare professional draws up a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine at the vaccination centre set up inside Brighton Centre in Brighton, southern England, on January 26, 2021. Ben Stensall | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — The findings of a large U.S. trial have shown that the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and …