✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #108

Life Science

Laboratory studies hint that a longer interval between infection and vaccination is better than a shorter one.

Researchers have discovered a link between anxiety behaviors and PTSD to an increase in myelin in the brain's gray matter.

If you’re vaccinated, an infection might not make you super sick, but don’t count on it making you super immune, either.

Why is the CDC changing its isolation guidance? Which type of test is best? And how long should you isolate or quarantine? Experts weigh in to help clear confusion.

The study of more than 40,000 pregnancies found that vaccination status had practically no impact on whether a child was born prematurely or smaller or less developed than expected.

A new law makes California the first state to require that health insurance plans, including Medicaid, cover home STI tests. But some details still need to be worked out.

Teaching & Learning

I [James M. Lang] was 21 years old when I first stepped into a college classroom as an instructor. My master’s program had assigned me to teach a composition course and gave me a brief orientation to teaching the week before the semester began. I was so close in age to my students, so nervous about how they would perceive me, and so uncertain about what I was doing that I had precisely one goal for the first day of the semester: Get through it.

A vulnerability detected last year in an online-proctoring software used by more than 2,000 American colleges is raising new alarm bells for experts, who say that too many institutions — eager to assure the academic integrity of online assessments — have failed to evaluate those platforms and weigh the risk of cyberattacks.

TAPP News & Notes

Comprehensive collection of strategies, mindsets, & strategies for the syllabus & related course documents. Mix of classic & fresh segments.

Audio episodes focused on teaching human anatomy & physiology (A&P) featuring award-winning A&P professor and author, Dr. Kevin Patton.