Roxanne Scott

Nov 19, 2024 | projektpulsar.pl | Roxanne Scott

Jason Robert Moore. Dwadzieścia pięć lat temu Yvonne Carroll przez znaczną część czasu przekazywała trudne informacje dotyczące stanu zdrowia. To ona dzwoniła do rodziców, aby im powiedzieć, że ich właśnie narodzone dziecko ma niedokrwistość sierpowatokrwinkową. Jeśli nie wdrożono szybko profilaktycznego leczenia antybiotykami, zapobiegającymi posocznicy, niemowlęta mogły umrzeć z powodu zakażenia krwi. „W tamtym czasie ludzie prawie nie stosowali penicyliny.

Sep 17, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Roxanne Scott

This article is part of “Innovations In: Sickle Cell Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Twenty-five years ago Yvonne Carroll spent much of her time delivering difficult medical news. It fell to her to call parents and tell them their newborns had sickle cell disease. If the infants weren’t treated swiftly with prophylactic antibiotics to prevent sepsis, they could die from blood poisoning.

Aug 22, 2024 | amsterdamnews.com | Roxanne Scott

Normally, Estefani Nuñez parks the small yellow school bus she drives each day by the side of her home in the Rosedale neighborhood in Queens. On the day before she knows it’s going to rain, she parks her school bus a block away. When it does rain, she puts on her tall black boots to wade through water to make sure the children she has to pick up get to school on time. Sometimes the boots aren’t enough and she is forced instead to wear garbage bags over them.

Jul 17, 2024 | chainstoreage.com | Roxanne Scott

After nearly a decade of increasing environmental regulations, the U.S. commercial refrigeration equipment supply chain faces an emerging challenge: to prepare for compliance with new Department of Energy (DOE) mandates for reduced energy consumption. During the last DOE rulemaking cycle, which began in 2014 and culminated in 2017, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) responded to the challenge, achieving regulatory compliance — despite compressed timetables and short design cycles.

Feb 13, 2024 | theopennotebook.com | Roxanne Scott

Léelo en EspañolLike everyone else during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Arizona-based journalist Maritza L. Félix was glued to her television and phone—there wasn’t much else to do. That’s when she noticed her mother, who lives in Mexico, posting about the infectious disease on WhatsApp. Concerningly, a lot of the information she was sharing, and that which Félix found in other WhatsApp groups, was false.