Laboratory Equipment
How to prevent bacterial infections associated with poor hygiene in hospitals, nursing homes and day care centers has become a necessary though rarely pleasant topic for healthcare providers. Every year, an estimated 5 percent of all hospitalized Americans, or about…
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After spending more than a decade reporting on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Maryn McKenna knows plenty of ways we could all die terrible deaths, compliments of nature’s craftiest single-celled organisms. Her coverage of anthrax, polio, bird flu…
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Anything that sucks our blood while we lie in bed sleeping is bound to stir strong feelings. Think vampires and the many movies they have inspired even though vampires are at best folklore. Bed bugs are real. They’re nocturnal but…
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A mother’s womb is a protective cocoon, but it is also where humans for the first time encounter the world that awaits them after birth. This encounter happens through sound and touch and through the exchange of blood between mother…
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