Hotels become hospitals as Cuba battles soaring COVID cases

Cuba’s hot spot for COVID-19 infections has shifted to the central province of Ciego de Avila, where officials are converting hotels into hospitals. Instead of tourists, the Hotel Ciego de Avila will hold up to 240 low-risk pediatric patients, officials say, while the Las Canas Motel will have 53 beds for pregnant women with the coronavirus. They are also ordering […]

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At 40, Alicia Keys Is Toned From Head To Toe While Paddleboarding In The Most Epic Location

Alicia Keys just celebrated her wedding anniversary with her husband, Swizz Beatz, and now she’s taking some QT to appreciate nature. The singer shared some stunning photos on Instagram of herself paddleboarding through sea caves. Alicia shared a video in May 2020 of herself working out with celebrity trainer Jeanette Jenkins, and there’s tons of core work in the mix. […]

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'Simple is hard,' especially when you’re creating a new product for a complicated system like healthcare

This podcast will cover how they collaborated with a brilliant cross-functional team, and together they created a mobile interface for physicians. The team started with empathy for the doctors they served, they mixed in Human-Centered Design and a good dose of the agile development process. What emerged was a simple product; built by, and for, physicians. With wit, speed and […]

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Serena Williams Shares The Three Words She Lives By While Balancing Motherhood & Career

When you’re juggling a career and parenthood, you’re bound to run into difficult circumstances that will test you. If anyone knows that, it’s definitely Serena Williams. The 23-time Grand Slam champion has been balancing her career as an athlete, entrepreneur, and fashion mogul, while also devoting the past nearly four years to raising her three-year-old daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., […]

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New AI-based image processing algorithm for accurate cervical cancer detection

Cervical cancer affects more than half a million women annually causing more than 300,000 deaths. Detection of cancer in its early stages is essential to eradicate the disease from the patient’s body. However, regular population-wise screening of cancer is limited by its expensive and labor-intensive detection process. To detect malignancy, clinicians need to classify individual cells from a stained slide, […]

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Men have better resources than women to cope with challenges of aging

Gender differences in societal aging favor men over women, which suggests that men have better resources to help them cope with the challenges of aging. The international analysis, published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity journal, is the first of its kind to investigate gender differences in the aging experience of older people across 18 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development […]

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Georgias Lasha Talakhadze Dominates the Olympics With the Heaviest Lifts Ever

There are dominant performances in sports—and then there’s what Georgian weightlifter Lasha Talakhadze did at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The 27-year-old superheavyweight (+109kg division) was so far out of his competitors’ league he did not even begin making his attempts at the snatch and clean and jerk (the two events in Olympic weightlifting) until all the others were finished […]

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Gilead says aware of counterfeit HIV medicines being distributed in U.S.

FILE PHOTO: Gilead Sciences biotech company is seen after they announced a Phase 3 Trial of the investigational antiviral drug remdesivir in patients with severe coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Oceanside, California, U.S., April 29, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake(Reuters) – Gilead Sciences said on Thursday it has become aware that tampered and counterfeit versions […]

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Microbiology and Food Security

Microbiological processes are vitally important to almost all stages of the food production process. It has been recognized that enhancing microbiological processes can have a beneficial impact on food production, and may provide the solution to the growing global problem of food insecurity. Microbiology may provide a sustainable approach to enhancing worldwide food security, an issue of particular urgency given […]

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