✔️ The A&P Professor Science & Education Updates - Issue #142

Life Science

Read this before you shed your face covering on your next flight.

In South Africa, a network of researchers is studying whether lineages BA.4 and BA.5 escape immunity from COVID-19 vaccines and previous infections.

COVID's 'new normal' response must target those repeatedly left behind

A new study could clarify why tuberculosis treatments work in some patients but not others and potentially lead to better ways to fight TB.

People who live in neighbourhoods with constant traffic noise are at higher risk of hospitalization for heart attacks compared with those who live in quieter areas, according to a recently published population-based study out of Rutgers University.

More gains in quality, affordability, and accessibility are on the way.

South Korean researchers have developed the country’s first robotic catheter system that can be inserted into human organs to perform interventional therapies, the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials said Monday. A catheter is a thin tube-like medical device that can be inserted in the body to treat diseases or perform surgical procedures. Interventional therapies, which refer to treating surgery-requi...

Teaching & Learning

Histology is a visually oriented, foundational anatomical sciences subject in professional health curricula that has seen a dramatic reduction in educational contact hours and an increase in content migration to a digital platform. While the digital migration of histology laboratories has transforme …

TAPP News & Notes

Can bolstering student confidence, while using gamification to provide some fun, spaced retrieval practice be an answer?