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A facile strategy for the 3D printed personalized micromachines from patient blood–derivable biomaterials. Harvested blood from the patient can be rapidly and robustly processed to obtain blood plasma, albumin, and platelet lysate. We use these biomacromolecules to prepare the microfabrication precursor mixtures containing the photosensitizer rose bengal and magnetic iron …

While early onset colorectal cancers are on the rise, most survival rates have also improved, except for young African Americans diagnosed with proximal colon cancer. Credit: Medical University of South Carolina They are troubling questions that have researchers across the country stumped—why are more young people being diagnosed with colorectal …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Seventy-seven-year-old David Pallett, who began exercising seriously about four months ago, started a recent workout by donning a 15-pound vest and climbing 100 stairs—two at a time. After that little warm-up, personal trainer Jim Hart, who specializes in working with older adults, led Pallett through an …

This July 2020 file photo shows the Montana State Capitol in Helena, Mont. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Montana’s legislature passed restrictive laws severely curbing quarantine and isolation powers, increasing local officials’ power over local health boards, preventing limits on religious gatherings, and banning employers—including in health care settings—from requiring vaccinations …

by David B. Caruso In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, people covered in dust from the collapsed World Trade Center buildings, walk through the area, in New York. Two decades after the twin towers’ collapse, people are still coming forward to report illnesses that might be related to the …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Paula had not been living in her retirement apartment for very long when I arrived for our interview. She welcomed me into a modern, comfortable home. We sat in the living room, taking in the impressive view from her balcony and our conversation unfolded. Paula, 72, …

A man drags an oxygen container outside the state hospital in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. Despite one of the European Union’s highest death rates from COVID-19, and as the country faces a rapid surge of infections due to the Delta variant, people in the Balkan nation are …

A R.N. holds the hand of a COVID-19 patient in the Medical Intensive care unit (MICU) at St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center in Boise, Idaho on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. More then half of the patients in the ICU are COVID-19 positive, none of which are vaccinated. Credit: AP Photo/Kyle …

by Aniruddha Ghosal and Rishabh R. Jain Villagers stand in a queue to receive the vaccine for COVID-19 in village Nizampur, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. India has dramatically increased COVID-19 vaccination rates in its vast rural hinterland, where around 65% of the country’s …

A commercial business is closed in Sydney on Aug. 13, 2021, as greater Sydney continues a weeks-long COVID-19 lockdown. Japan, Australia and New Zealand all got through the first year of the coronavirus pandemic in relatively good shape, but now are taking very divergent paths in dealing with new outbreaks …

Heat extremes and hot weather are harming health. While mitigating climate change is vital, theinevitable rise in global temperature is expected to exacerbate these harms in future, and identifyingopportunities for applying sustainable cooling strategies in heat-vulnerable settings is also important. Credit: The Lancet Extreme heat is an increasingly common occurrence …

Samaritan’s Purse staff set up a portable bed in one of four wards that are part of the 32-bed Samaritan’s Purse Emergency Field Hospital set up in one of the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s parking garages, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. The field hospital, an outreach program …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Parents in Kansas City who don’t want their children to wear masks in school despite mandates are swapping names of local physicians and nurse practitioners they claim will sign medical exemptions for families. Some local pediatricians report they’re getting more requests for exemptions lately and confirm …

A Texas A&M nursing student prepares a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Credit: Mark Guerrero/Texas A&M Division of Marketing & Communications The highly contagious Delta variant has caused a surge in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations, largely among the unvaccinated. This latest development in the coronavirus pandemic has renewed debates …

Transmission electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, emerging from human cells. Credit: NIAID COVID-19 breakthrough infections—where a fully vaccinated person becomes infected with the coronavirus—are occurring across the globe, due, in large part, to the highly contagious Delta variant. Here in the United States, many Americans …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With kids returning to school and many adults heading back to the office or traveling, something as simple as a cough or runny nose might lead to panic—and the need for a COVID-19 test. But because of the wide availability of COVID-19 vaccines, the topic of …