Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have covered the issue of variants, virus mutations that affect the way SARS-CoV-2 moves around the...
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Medical students have made the same promise since the dawn of health care: First, do no harm. Despite living by this maxim, medical staff are human....
Global events have a long history of impacting the Olympic Games. World wars have cancelled the modern Olympic games three times, political boycotts...
The idea of going to the hospital can be scary enough without even thinking of the possibility of getting a hospital-acquired infection (HAI)....
We live in an environment teeming with microscopic organisms. They cover not only the surfaces we touch, but also our skin and even our insides. We...
Last week concluded our series on what the world will look like post-COVID. In our first post, we covered changes made during the pandemic that we...
We are all covered in bacteria. (You could even say we are all contaminated.) Bacteria and other microorganisms live in our gut, in our mucous...
In our previous posts in this series, we've discussed the changes brought about by the COVID19 pandemic that we want to see go and those which we...
Injections are one of the most common procedures taking place in a medical setting (16 billion administered globally each year). This common...
In our last post, we covered what aspects of daily life, especially in the medical field, we are eager to get back to normal, pre-pandemic life....
One element of standard precautions has come under intense scrutiny in recent years: The reprocessing (cleaning for reuse) of medical devices. The...