Last Saturday morning, Sean O'Brien learned that sometimes the pecking order favors birds over humans.
The coronavirus pandemic could wind up being to the benefit of this year’s high school juniors when it comes time to apply for college, Kim Penney, founder of One-on-One College Consulting, told WFXT. “I don’t envy college admissions counselors this cycle coming up. It’s going to be very hard. Harder than normal,” she said. Penney said […]
BOSTON – It was a rapidly disappearing commodity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, so when a box of 50,000 donated N-95 face masks arrived a few weeks ago, doctors and nurses were relieved. “We were very, very treacherously low on the small N-95s,” said James Rathmell, M.D., an anesthesiologist at the hospital. “It was a […]
BOSTON – It’s a therapeutic idea based on the most basic immunological principle: In theory, the antibodies produced by one COVID-19 survivor should help to fight the disease off in someone still ill. “One can measure antibodies, which have developed after an infection,” said Dr. Peter Schur of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “That’s a normal immune response.” […]
It’s been part of the Catholic mass for decades, but concern over flu and coronavirus has led the Archdiocese of Boston to eliminate a potential route of transmission on the first Sunday of Lent.