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11/16/2017 / By Zoey Sky

Antibiotic overuse kills thousands each year: Authorities urge people to just stay home and rest when ill

Whenever we come down with a cough or a sore throat, we often take some antibiotics so we don’t have to skip a day of work. But did you know that antibiotic overuse causes an estimated 5,000 deaths yearly? According to the Daily Mail, National Health Service (NHS) patients are advised to refrain from asking […]

10/18/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

New hope for old antibiotics: Scientists have found a way to supercharge them for increased effectiveness against superbugs

Quantum dots are light-activated, nano-sized crystals with unique structures made from semiconductors. They’re highly tunable and can be precisely controlled for all sorts of applications, some of which lie in the field of medicine. While they’ve been used in place of organic dyes in biological analysis, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have uncovered […]

10/05/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Your mouth’s role in gut health and immunity: Researchers discover childhood environment has more influence than genetics

A new study discovered that the mix of microorganisms that dwell in a person’s saliva is largely determined by the human’s household environment rather than genetics, reported Science Daily. The study, published in the journal of the American Society for Microbiology called mBio, showed that household environment had a larger role than human genetics in shaping the […]

01/23/2017 / By Howard Roark

Nearly half the students at an Illinois high school absent; norovirus ‘vomiting bug’ suspected

Hundreds of St. Charles East High School students became ill with norovirus last week, and the school was forced to close for two days. The Chicago Tribune reports that the Illinois Department of Health collected three samples and sent them to their virology lab in Chicago for analysis. The results confirmed the Kane County Health […]

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