Tennis standout Helena Jansen has been nominated by App State as the school's candidate for the 2023 NCAA Woman of the Year Award. Jansen showed her prowess bot
Survey: Parents have made good, bad changes to meals during pandemic
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A new survey suggests that while some healthy food choices have gone by the wayside like more unhealthy snacks habits like regular meal times have continued to be the same. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
There have been good and bad changes to U.S. children s diets during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say. Providing healthy meals and snacks to our kids can be a challenge even when we re not experiencing a pandemic, said senior study author Susan Carnell. She s an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Baltimore.
Even as the first vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are being distributed, scientists and clinicians around the world have remained steadfast in their efforts to better understand how the human immune system responds to the virus and protects people against it. Now, a research team led by Johns Hopkins Medicine and in collaboration with ImmunoScape, a U.S.-Singapore biotechnology company has published one of the most comprehensive characterizations to date of a critical contributor to that protection: the response of immune system cells called T lymphocytes (more commonly known as T cells) in people who have recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Denmark Toughens Rape Law to Include Sex Without Consent
Rights groups and assault survivors welcomed the change, saying it was long overdue in a country that prides itself on gender equality.
An International Women’s Day rally in Copenhagen in 2017.Credit.Nikolai Linares/Scanpix Denmark, via Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Dec. 17, 2020
Denmark toughened its rape law on Thursday by criminalizing sex without explicit consent, a long-awaited victory for assault survivors and human rights groups.
In order to bring a rape charge, the law previously required proof of violence, threat or evidence that the victim was unable to fend off the assault. But the new legislation broadens the definition.