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IntroductionThe lymphatic system is a network of vessels important for whole buy flagyl usa body fluid homeostasis, lipid absorption and immune cell trafficking.1 2 Lymphoedema is caused by lymphatic dysfunction, which leads to a build-up of interstitial fluid within the tissues. This manifests with swelling of the extremities, usually of the legs but may involve other regions or segments of the body such as the upper limbs, face, trunk or genital area. There is an increased risk of due to disturbances in immune cell trafficking within the segment of compromised lymph drainage.3 Lymphatic dysfunction within the thorax and abdomen, here referred to as systemic/internal involvement (but can be referred to as visceral or central involvement), may present with pleural or pericardial effusions or ascites, any of which may be chylous, as well as intestinal or pulmonary lymphangiectasia, protein losing enteropathy or chylous reflux.The International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies (ISSVA) updated their classification for vascular anomalies in 2018.4 The vascular malformations are subgrouped into ‘combined’, which include more than one type of vessel, ‘simple’ (only involving one vessel type), and those ‘associated with other anomalies’.Lymphoedema due to a presumed genetic developmental fault in the structure or buy flagyl usa function of lymph conducting pathways is called primary lymphoedema.5 Some developmental faults can lead to overt structural defects of the lymph conducting pathways and are called lymphatic malformations.

Such malformations if interfering with lymph drainage cause lymphoedema (truncal malformations) but some lymphatic malformations remain as isolated anomalies with no connection to main lymph drainage pathways and do not cause lymphoedema (non-truncal malformations).6 A primary lymphatic anomaly is an umbrella term referring to all lymphatic abnormalities arising from a developmental fault.For a long time, the diagnosis of primary lymphoedema was based largely on the age of presentation of the swelling, congenital, pubertal and late onset, with limited differentiation between the phenotypes. The discovery of the first causal gene, vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3 for Milroy disease, indicated that a molecular diagnosis was possible.7 The first St George’s classification algorithm of primary lymphoedema and other primary lymphatic disorders was an attempt to guide a clearer categorisation of phenotypes and enable the discovery of further causal genes.8 Age of onset remained a key criterion, but the sites affected and associated features, for example, dysmorphology, distichiasis (aberrant eyelashes), varicose veins, buy flagyl usa vascular malformations and limb overgrowth were also considered, as was internal or systemic involvement, for example, fetal hydrops, intestinal lymphangiectasia, pleural and pericardial effusions and chylous reflux. A family history of lymphoedema with determination of the mode of inheritance was considered useful.More rigorous phenotyping facilitated the identification of subgroups of patients with the same broad category of primary lymphatic anomaly.

These cohorts were then used for molecular studies to identify more buy flagyl usa causal genes. Once the genotype was known then crosschecking of the clinical characteristics, natural history and inheritance patterns was possible and an accurate phenotype defined. Investigations such as lymphoscintigraphy helped to refine the phenotype further and give insight into the mechanisms for the buy flagyl usa development of the lymphatic disorder.

A first update of the classification was published in 2013.9The St George’s classification algorithm is intended to help clinicians categorise their patients and guide testing towards, where possible, a molecular diagnosis. This algorithm buy flagyl usa is criteria matching, that is, using certain key findings for classification through a multistep process of history taking, examination findings, mutation testing, etc. The next step using the information gathered is to advise on natural history, prognosis and risk (including genetic counselling) and to guide management.

While a molecular diagnosis should provide the most specific and accurate diagnosis, it can be seen particularly with the postzygotic mosaic disorders that one genotype can be clinically very heterogenous so there will probably always be a place for good clinical phenotyping supported by investigation to guide management.Here, we present a second update of the St George’s classification algorithm to include newly discovered genes and to bring it in-line with the 2018 ISSVA classification for vascular anomalies.4 The results of an audit, the buy flagyl usa purpose of which was to determine how well the algorithm was performing as a diagnostic aid to classify patients with primary lymphatic anomalies and guide molecular testing are also presented.MethodsSt George’s classification algorithm of primary lymphatic anomaliesThe St George’s classification algorithm was updated (figure 1) and then applied, retrospectively, to all patients presenting to the national multidisciplinary ‘Primary and Paediatric Lymphoedema’ Clinic held at St George’s Hospital over a 1-year period. Careful phenotyping was undertaken both on clinical grounds and after selective investigations, for example, lymphoscintigraphy. Where possible and appropriate, targeted genetic testing was performed (this was prior to the introduction of a lymphoedema buy flagyl usa gene panel in our unit) for some of the genes listed in table 1.St George’s classification algorithm for primary lymphatic anomalies.

The five main groupings (colour coded) with their various clinical subtypes of disease. Primary lymphoedema is the major clinical feature in buy flagyl usa the green, pink and purple sections. Text in red indicates the suggested genetic test and/or differential diagnosis for the subgroup, however, the indicated genes do not explain the cause of disease in all patients in each grouping.

For example, only 70% of patients with Milroy disease are explained by mutations buy flagyl usa in FLT4/VEGFR3.33 FH, family history. +ve, positive. ˆ’ve, negative buy flagyl usa.

(Image shared by St George’s Lymphovascular Research Group under the CC BY-SA 4.0 International licence on Wikimedia Commons)." data-icon-position data-hide-link-title="0">Figure 1 St George’s classification algorithm for primary lymphatic anomalies. The five main groupings (colour coded) with their various buy flagyl usa clinical subtypes of disease. Primary lymphoedema is the major clinical feature in the green, pink and purple sections.

Text in buy flagyl usa red indicates the suggested genetic test and/or differential diagnosis for the subgroup, however, the indicated genes do not explain the cause of disease in all patients in each grouping. For example, only 70% of patients with Milroy disease are explained by mutations in FLT4/VEGFR3.33 FH, family history. +ve, positive buy flagyl usa.

ˆ’ve, negative. (Image shared by St George’s Lymphovascular Research Group under the CC BY-SA 4.0 International licence on Wikimedia Commons).View this table:Table 1 An overview of genetic disorders with primary lymphoedema as a frequent and dominant feature, categorised by inheritance and age of onsetWithin the St George’s classification algorithm (figure 1), there are five main categories of primary lymphatic anomalies. These are presented in buy flagyl usa the form of colour-coded sections with the individual subtypes (including genotypes) within the categories.

For definitions of some of the terms used, see Glossary of Terms (see online supplementary section).Supplemental materialFirst, the yellow section includes the ‘vascular malformations associated with other anomalies’ and the ‘lymphatic malformations’ (as defined in the ‘Introduction’ section).Second, the patient is assessed for syndromes that have lymphoedema as a non-dominant feature (blue section), for example, the patient is dysmorphic with learning difficulties and possibly has other abnormalities.Then if not obviously syndromic, and the lymphatic problems are the dominant feature, further assessment and investigations for systemic/internal lymphatic dysfunction or central conducting anomalies (eg, chylothoraces, chylopericardial effusions, ascites or protein losing enteropathy) are undertaken (pink section). These include a careful medical history asking specifically about prenatal history (eg, hydrothoraces, fetal hydrops), chronic diarrhoea, buy flagyl usa abdominal bloating or discomfort with fatty foods, weight loss or faltering growth (in a child) or shortness of breath on exertion. Blood investigations (including serum albumin, immunoglobulins, lymphocyte subsets, faecal levels of calprotectin or alpha-1-antitrysin), echocardiograms and chest radiographs are helpful if central lymphatic dysfunction is suspected.Where none of the above features is present, then the age of onset is used to determine the grouping.

The green section deals with congenital-onset primary lymphoedema (includes syndromes where lymphoedema is the dominant clinical problem, and which is present at birth or develops within the first buy flagyl usa year of life but is not associated with systemic/internal lymphatic dysfunction). The purple section addresses late-onset primary lymphoedema (ie, lymphoedema that is the dominant clinical problem, and which develops after the first year of life but is not associated with systemic/internal lymphatic dysfunction). It was decided not to differentiate between pubertal onset (praecox) and later onset in life (tarda) when it was discovered that one genotype such as FOXC2 can cause both.It is important to note that the specific diagnosis may be difficult in a neonate presenting with isolated congenital buy flagyl usa primary lymphoedema.

A baby born with lymphoedema may later present with developmental delay, systemic involvement, progressive segmental overgrowth or a vascular malformation, which could suggest a diagnosis in one of the other categories. It should also be emphasised buy flagyl usa that each colour-coded section is not exclusive. Some somatic overgrowth anomalies may possess significant internal involvement.

Also, lymphoedema distichiasis syndrome is allocated to the purple late-onset lymphoedema section because the dominant feature is the late-onset buy flagyl usa lymphoedema not the associated features, which make it a syndrome. The blue ‘syndromic’ section refers to conditions with a collection of features where lymphoedema is not the main characteristic. The algorithm is intended buy flagyl usa to guide a clinical diagnosis and target gene testing.Genetic methodologyFor the purposes of the audit, targeted genetic testing of FOXC2, VEGFR3, CCBE1, SOX18, RASopathy genes and PIK3CA was performed by Sanger sequencing of DNA extracted from lymphocytes or skin fibroblasts in patients in whom a specific genetic diagnosis was suspected.

This was before the introduction of a lymphoedema gene panel. Some patients, who were either negative for the targeted genes or did not fit the relevant phenotypes of those genes, were included in Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) cohorts after classification, which then led to the identification of new disease genes such as EPHB4, GATA2, PIEZO1, GJC2 and FAT4.Retrospective audit of the St George’s Clinic for 2016A 12-month retrospective audit for the year 2016 (1 January 2016–31 December 2016) was performed buy flagyl usa. The aim of the audit was to look at the proportion of patients in each category of the classification algorithm and to look at the success of making a molecular diagnosis through use of the algorithm.

The audit criteria required the patients to be seen in our specialist clinic, at any age, with a diagnosis of a primary lymphatic anomaly with buy flagyl usa data collected from medical records and laboratory results.ResultsResults of the retrospective auditOver a 12-month period in 2016, 227 patients were seen (age range 2 weeks to 70 years), 25.6% (n=58/227) of which were new patients. Over one-third (38%) of patients seen in the clinic had a family history of primary lymphoedema.Few patients had received genetic testing prior to referral to the clinic. Targeted genetic testing buy flagyl usa was completed in 63% (n=143) of the patients seen.

At that time, a lymphoedema gene panel was not available, patients were only tested if the clinician felt there was a reasonable chance of finding a molecular cause, that is, testing was targeted.Of those tested, the underlying genetic cause was identified in 41% (n=59/143). Overall, a molecular diagnosis was made in 26% (59/227) of all the patients seen in 2016.Vascular malformations with associated anomalies and lymphatic malformations (yellow)This group presents with malformations in buy flagyl usa the structure and organisation of blood and lymphatic vessels with a patchy, segmental distribution. Lymphoedema may develop in combination with vascular malformations and segmental overgrowth (or occasionally, undergrowth) of tissues within the swollen limb, for example, muscle, skeletal or adipose tissues (figure 2A).

The combination of lymphatic and vascular malformations in this group reflects the mutual embryological origins of the two vascular systems.A graphic representation of the 227 audited patients seen in clinic in 2016 and their buy flagyl usa distribution across the five categories from figure 1 (pie chart). (A–G) Images show features of each category. (A) Patients with postzygotic mutations often present with asymmetrical swelling and segmental buy flagyl usa overgrowth as this patient, who is mosaic for a mutation in KRAS.

(B) Webbed neck in Noonan syndrome. (C) In rare cases, swellings can be widespread affecting all segments of the body such as in this child with biallelic CCBE1 mutations. (D) In milder forms, often just the dorsum of the foot is affected buy flagyl usa as in this baby with a VEGFR3 mutation.

(E, F) Lower limb swelling and distichiasis (arrowheads in F) in a patient with a FOXC2 mutation. (G) Lymphoedema is buy flagyl usa a major cause of skin disease and affected patients suffer from severe and recurrent episodes of cutaneous , especially HPV-associated warts as seen in patients with GATA2 mutations. GLD, generalised lymphatic dysplasia." data-icon-position data-hide-link-title="0">Figure 2 A graphic representation of the 227 audited patients seen in clinic in 2016 and their distribution across the five categories from figure 1 (pie chart).

(A–G) Images show features buy flagyl usa of each category. (A) Patients with postzygotic mutations often present with asymmetrical swelling and segmental overgrowth as this patient, who is mosaic for a mutation in KRAS. (B) Webbed neck in Noonan syndrome buy flagyl usa.

(C) In rare cases, swellings can be widespread affecting all segments of the body such as in this child with biallelic CCBE1 mutations. (D) In milder buy flagyl usa forms, often just the dorsum of the foot is affected as in this baby with a VEGFR3 mutation. (E, F) Lower limb swelling and distichiasis (arrowheads in F) in a patient with a FOXC2 mutation.

(G) Lymphoedema is a major cause of skin disease and buy flagyl usa affected patients suffer from severe and recurrent episodes of cutaneous , especially HPV-associated warts as seen in patients with GATA2 mutations. GLD, generalised lymphatic dysplasia.These conditions are usually due to postzygotic mutations, for example, PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum (PROS)). Exceptions to this are capillary malformation-arteriovenous malformation (MIM 608354) such as Parkes-Weber syndrome, which may be caused by heterozygous, germline mutations in RASA1.10Of the 227 patients seen in 2016, 17% (n=39) buy flagyl usa had lymphoedema associated with vascular malformations and/or segmental overgrowth (or undergrowth) (figure 2, pie chart) in comparison with 15% in 2010.8 It has been shown that postzygotic, gain of function mutations in PIK3CA may be responsible for many of the mosaic segmental overgrowth spectrum disorders.11 Postzygotic mutations are rarely identified in blood samples and therefore require a skin biopsy of the affected region.

In the 2016 cohort, only 10 patients (26%) provided skin biopsies for genetic analysis, producing just one molecular diagnosis. More research in this field is required to identify the genetic basis for some of the conditions in buy flagyl usa this category. However, since the last revision, we have gained a much better understanding of the classification of some of these postzygotic mosaic conditions, therefore a brief review of the latest developments in this area is given in the online supplementary section.Syndromic lymphoedema (blue)Syndromes associated with primary lymphatic anomalies are listed in table 2 and include chromosomal abnormalities, single gene disorders and imprinting disorders.

Patients attending the clinic with syndromic primary lymphoedema made up 13% (n=29) (figure 2, pie chart), similar to the buy flagyl usa 15% reported by Connell et al.8 Nearly three-quarters (72%, n=21) of this cohort had a molecular or chromosomal diagnosis. The most frequently seen syndromes were Noonan syndrome (n=8) (figure 2B), Turner syndrome (n=4) and Phelan McDermid syndrome (n=3).View this table:Table 2 An overview of ‘Known Syndromes’ with primary lymphoedema as a non-dominant association as referred to in the St George’s classification algorithm (figure 1, blue section)Lymphoedema with prenatal or postnatal systemic involvement (pink)In some conditions, lymphoedema may be associated with internal (systemic or visceral) disturbances of the lymphatic system within thorax or abdomen, for example, fetal hydrops, intestinal lymphangiectasia (presenting as protein-losing enteropathy), pulmonary lymphangiectasia or with pericardial and/or pleural effusions (often chylous), or chylous reflux (often into the genitalia). Broadly, there are buy flagyl usa two types of lymphoedema with systemic involvement.

(A) ‘widespread’ swelling affecting all segments of the body (figure 2C), such as that seen in generalised lymphatic dysplasia (GLD). Due to faulty buy flagyl usa development, the structural or functional abnormality of the lymphatic system is affecting the whole body. One type is Hennekam-lymphangiectasia-lymphoedema syndrome12.

(B) ‘patchy’ areas of buy flagyl usa swelling, for example, left arm and right leg, which have been named ‘multisegmental lymphatic dysplasia’ (MLD) (figure 1).Prenatally, these conditions may present with pleural effusions (hydrothoraces), or as non-immune fetal hydrops (the accumulation of fluid in at least two compartments of a fetus such as the abdominal cavity, pleura or subcutaneous oedema). Fifteen per cent of non-immune cases of hydrops are the result of lymphatic disorders, and approximately 20% are idiopathic, some of which may be due to, as yet, unidentified lymphatic abnormalities.13In our audit, this cohort accounted for 12% (n=27) of patients (figure 2, pie chart), slightly higher than the 8% reported in 2010.8 Molecular testing was carried out in 17 patients. Nine of those tested had GLD, and pathogenic variants buy flagyl usa were identified in seven (78%).

Five had biallelic variants in the PIEZO1 gene and one each with biallelic variants in FAT4 and SOX18. Interestingly, two of the families described by Connell et al, cases 3 and 4, have subsequently been found to be caused by biallelic variants in the PIEZO1 gene.8 14None of the eight patients, who presented with ‘patchy’ distribution of lymphoedema (MLD), had an identifiable molecular diagnosis. It is suspected that these patients could have a postzygotic mosaic mutation or WILD buy flagyl usa syndrome.15Since the last revision of the St George’s classification algorithm was published,9 five new causal genes associated with GLD and/or non-immune fetal hydrops have been identified.

ADAMTS3,16 EPHB4,17 FAT4,18 FBXL719 and PIEZO114 20 and are reviewed in the online supplementary section.Congenital onset lymphoedema (green)In this category, congenital onset is defined as lymphoedema that is present at birth or develops within the first year of life. Bilateral lower limb swelling is the most frequent presentation buy flagyl usa (figure 2D), but the swelling may be unilateral and/or involve the arms, genitalia and/or face, depending on the underlying cause. There are a number of different genetic disorders presenting with congenital lymphoedema (table 1).

Milroy disease buy flagyl usa (ORPHA79452. OMIM 153100) is the most common form, occurring as a result of pathogenic variants in FLT4/VEGFR3.21 22 The mutation may occur de novo, so a family history is not essential for this diagnosis. The lymphoedema is always confined to the lower limbs but may be unilateral, and may (rarely) involve the genitalia buy flagyl usa.

Approximately 10% of mutation carriers do not have lymphoedema. Fetuses with Milroy disease may present buy flagyl usa antenatally with pedal oedema in the third trimester, and, in a few cases, with bilateral hydrothoraces, which resolve before birth.Pathogenic variants in VEGFC, the ligand for VEGFR3, have also been identified in association with congenital primary lymphoedema of Gordon (OMIM 615907), also affecting the lower limbs.23–26The congenital category represents 21% (n=47) of the patients seen in 2016 (figure 2, pie chart) compared with 24% in 2010.8 A pathogenic variant was identified in 19 of the 47 (40%) patients genetically tested in this category. The majority (n=18) had pathogenic variants identified in FLT4/VEGFR3 and, in one patient, a pathogenic variant in the GJC2 gene.

A GJC2 mutation in a patient presenting with lymphoedema at birth is unusual but shows the variability of the phenotype.Many of the conditions listed under the other categories in the classification algorithm may initially present with congenital lymphoedema but systemic involvement, progressive buy flagyl usa overgrowth or vascular malformation may present later and are so reclassified. Likewise, some syndromic forms may present with congenital lymphoedema before any other manifestations, making diagnosis difficult at times. Thus, the diagnosis of ‘isolated’ congenital primary lymphoedema may be difficult in a buy flagyl usa neonate presenting with pedal oedema.

Therefore, a molecular diagnosis in the neonatal period is clinically very useful in the management of these patients.Late-onset lymphoedema (purple)‘Late-onset’ lymphoedema is defined as presenting after the first year of life. Swelling can range from being unilateral, bilateral or can involve all four limbs and can buy flagyl usa present from early childhood up to adulthood (figures 1 and 2E). Some may present with unilateral swelling, but the contralateral limb may become involved later or show abnormalities on lymphoscintigram even when clinically uninvolved.

The phenotypes also range buy flagyl usa from mild to severe. There are currently five genes known to be associated with late-onset lymphoedema. FOXC2 (figure 2F),27 GJC2,28 29 GATA2 (figure 2G),30 HGF31 and CELSR132 (table 1) buy flagyl usa.

For many patients the molecular cause remains elusive, particularly in those patients with Meige disease and late-onset (usually pubertal) unilateral lower limb lymphoedema.Late-onset primary lymphoedema accounted for 37% (n=85) in 2016 (figure 2, pie chart) comparable to the 36% reported in 2010.8 This category has a low number of molecular diagnoses (n=12. 14%) as there are currently no causative genes for Meige disease, which made up 36% (n=31) of patients in this category.DiscussionThis review presents an updated St George’s classification algorithm of primary lymphatic anomalies and brings it in-line with the ISSVA classification for vascular anomalies buy flagyl usa. It cites eight new causative genes since the last publication and highlights the areas where the genetic basis is still not known.

This rapidly evolving field demonstrates that primary lymphoedema and vascular malformations are highly heterogenous.The audit reports an overall buy flagyl usa successful molecular diagnosis in 26% of patients seen in the clinic, but 41% of those patients selected for molecular testing. This is a considerable improvement on the rate of a molecular diagnosis since the algorithm was first published in 2010. Only two causal genes buy flagyl usa were known at that time.

We can conclude from the audit that the algorithm works well in targeting mutation testing. Furthermore, use of the algorithm has led to the discovery of a number of causal genes. While it could be argued that the introduction of the lymphoedema gene panel obviates any need for targeted gene tests, we believe that matching a phenotype to a likely gene reduces wasteful testing and helps enormously in the interpretation of variants of unknown significance, which are becoming an increasing problem in the era of next-generation sequencing.Although providing a molecular diagnosis in buy flagyl usa one-quarter of all the patients with primary lymphoedema represents a considerable improvement from when the algorithm was last reviewed, the molecular diagnosis is still not identified in the majority of patients seen in the St George’s Clinic.

In the diagnostic setting, the introduction of next-generation sequencing with a targeted (virtual) ‘lymphoedema gene panel’ may improve the diagnostic rate and broaden the phenotypic spectrum of many of the known genetic disorders. Understanding of the natural history of the disorder will enable appropriate surveillance of, for example, leukaemia in Emberger syndrome (GATA2), and allow investigations for known associated problems, for example, congenital heart disease buy flagyl usa in patients with lymphoedema distichiasis syndrome (FOXC2). Prenatal diagnosis for the more serious conditions also becomes possible.

Knowledge of causal genes, and mechanisms of pathophysiology, provide an opportunity for buy flagyl usa new, improved treatments (personalised medicine) (eg, mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors for progressive overgrowth disorders).In conclusion, the St George’s classification algorithm for primary lymphatic anomalies has been further refined. With this review, we have provided insight into the most recently discovered genotypes and how this algorithm can be used in the clinic to guide management of patients with primary lymphoedema.IntroductionTriphalangeal thumb (TPT) is a rare congenital hand anomaly in which the thumb has three phalanges instead of two. TPT is usually inherited in an autosomal dominant trait and is therefore commonly seen in affected families buy flagyl usa.

In 1994, Heutink et al located the pathogenic locus of TPT at chromosome 7q36.1 Subsequently, Lettice et al determined that point mutations in the zone of polarising activity regulatory sequence (ZRS) causes TPT and preaxial polydactyly.2 The ZRS is a long-range regulatory element residing in intron 5 of LMBR1 and regulates Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) expression in the embryonic limb bud. Since the identification of the ZRS buy flagyl usa region, 18 different point mutations in the ZRS have been reported in TPT families.3There is broad phenotypical variability among different point mutations in the ZRS. For example, variants on locations 323 and 739 in the ZRS cause mild presentations of isolated TPT.2 4 Alternatively, severe anomalies such as TPT accompanied with tibial hypoplasia have been observed in families with variants on position 404 and 406 in the ZRS.2 5–9 In mildly affected phenotypes, reduced penetrance is regularly observed.

In families who are more severely affected however, no reports of reduced penetrance buy flagyl usa have been made.Identifying and reporting new variants in the ZRS is important for genotype-phenotype correlations in TPT families. Additionally, it will also help to further elucidate the exact molecular mechanism of the role of the ZRS in the regulation of SHH expression in the embryonic limb.We therefore report two families with variants in the ZRS. These variants were buy flagyl usa identified in Dutch families with isolated TPT.

Additionally, unaffected family members shared these variants with affected family members. Although this observation suggests that the genotype is not fully penetrant, minor anomalies within these presumed unaffected family members indicate subclinical expression of a TPT phenotype rather than reduced penetrance of the buy flagyl usa genotype. We define subclinical phenotypes as anomalies that are not recognised by affected family members since they do not cause functional constraints in daily life, but can be recognised during clinical workup by experienced physicians.MethodsClinical evaluationFamilies 1 and 2 were identified at the outpatient clinic for Congenital Hand and Upper Limb Anomalies at the Sophia Children’s Hospital in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

The family members were clinically examined and buy flagyl usa consulted by a clinical geneticist. In family 1, peripheral blood samples were collected from the index patient, the mother and the grandfather of the index patient (figure 1). No blood samples were obtained from the brother of this patient as he was clinically buy flagyl usa unaffected and was below adult age.Overview of Dutch TPT family 1.

(A) Pedigree of the Dutch TPT family 1. The index patient buy flagyl usa is patient III-2. (B) X-ray image of the hand of the index patient.

An additional deltaphalanx is present in both buy flagyl usa thumbs. (C) X-ray image of the thumbs of patient III-2. Although there is no triphalangism present, buy flagyl usa the thumbs are remarkably broad.

TPT, triphalangeal thumb." data-icon-position data-hide-link-title="0">Figure 1 Overview of Dutch TPT family 1. (A) Pedigree of the Dutch TPT family 1. The index patient is patient III-2 buy flagyl usa.

(B) X-ray image of the hand of the index patient. An additional deltaphalanx is present in both thumbs buy flagyl usa. (C) X-ray image of the thumbs of patient III-2.

Although there is no triphalangism present, the buy flagyl usa thumbs are remarkably broad. TPT, triphalangeal thumb.In family 2, the index patient (III-2) visited the outpatient clinic for Congenital Hand and Upper Limb Anomalies at the Sophia Children’s Hospital in Rotterdam with his parents. The other family members were visited as part of a field buy flagyl usa study.

Included family members were clinically evaluated by a clinical geneticist, photographs were obtained and peripheral blood samples were collected (Figure 2, online supplementary figure 1). No radiographs were obtained during the field study.Supplemental materialOverview buy flagyl usa of Dutch TPT family 2. (A) Outtake of pedigree of the Dutch TPT family 2.

(B) Images of patient III-2 and his father (II-2), showing triphalangism of both thumbs with one additional ray on the left buy flagyl usa hand. (C) Images of patients II-4 and I-1, showing no triphalangism but lack of thumb opposition and mild thenar hypoplasia. TPT, triphalangeal thumb." buy flagyl usa data-icon-position data-hide-link-title="0">Figure 2 Overview of Dutch TPT family 2.

(A) Outtake of pedigree of the Dutch TPT family 2. (B) Images of patient III-2 and his father (II-2), showing triphalangism of both thumbs with one additional ray on the left hand buy flagyl usa. (C) Images of patients II-4 and I-1, showing no triphalangism but lack of thumb opposition and mild thenar hypoplasia.

TPT, triphalangeal thumb.ZRS sequencingDNA samples were isolated from peripheral blood buy flagyl usa. The fragments were amplified using standard PCR. An 834 bp fragment covering the ZRS buy flagyl usa (774 bp) was sequenced in family members of both families (UCSC Genome Browser, hg19, chr7:156583766–156584600).

Sequencing of PCR products was executed using Big Dye Terminator 3.1. Fragments were loaded on an ABI 3130 Sequence analyser and genetic analysis was performed with SeqScape Software (V.3.0).ResultsClinical report​Family 1Family 1 (figure 1A) consists of a nuclear buy flagyl usa family containing two affected patients with TPT. The index patient had a bilateral isolated TPT with an additional deltaphalanx (figure 1B).

No other congenital hand or other buy flagyl usa anomalies were present. The mother of the index patient was born with a TPT accompanied with a rudimentary additional thumb on both hands, without any other hand or congenital anomaly (data not shown). The maternal grandfather of the index patient did not have a TPT or buy flagyl usa preaxial polydactyly.

However, clinical examination of the hands revealed remarkable broadness of both thumbs and mild thenar hypoplasia. Although the X-ray image of the grandfather shows no duplication of the thumb or triphalangism, the broadness of the distal phalanges is striking (figure 1C).​Family 2Family 2 comprises a large seven-generation family (Figure 2A, online supplementary figure 1). The index patient buy flagyl usa (III-2) had bilateral TPT with preaxial polydactyly on the left hand.

The father of the index patient (II-1) had bilateral TPT without preaxial polydactyly (figure 2B). All other family members reported they buy flagyl usa were not affected. Although the thumbs of family members I-1 and II-2 did not show clear features of triphalangism, further examination revealed that both family members had mild thenar hypoplasia and were unable to oppose both thumbs (figure 2C).

No other congenital anomalies were present in family 2.Mutation analysisSequence analysis of the 774 bp ZRS, in intron 5 of LMBR1, revealed the presence of a heterozygous A to G transition buy flagyl usa in members of family 1 (g.156584405A>G, GRCh37/Hg19). Following the more commonly used nomenclature for loci of ZRS variants, introduced by Lettice et al,2 this variant can be defined as a 165A>G variant.2 This variant was present in the affected family members. Patient I-1 of family one also carried a 165A>G variant in the ZRS, buy flagyl usa despite not having TPT on either hand.

This variant was not present in public databases dbSNP, Clinvar and HGMD. Additionally, this variant was not present in locally available WGS data sets (GoNL, Wellderly, Public54).10–12In family 2, we identified a 295T>variant in the ZRS (g.156584535T>C, GRCh37/Hg19) buy flagyl usa. Two family members who did not have TPT carried the 295T>C variant.

This variant has previously been reported in a British family with mild cases of TPT and reduced penetrance of the genotype.13 Additionally, transgenic enhancer assays in mice showed buy flagyl usa that the 295T>C variant causes ectopic expression in the embryonic limb and therefore confirms the pathogenicity of this variant.DiscussionIn this brief report, we describe two TPT families with either a 165A>G or 295T>C variant in the ZRS. The aim of this paper was to show that these observations of reduced penetrance in TPT families are in retrospect caused by mild and subclinical limb phenotypes without the presence of triphalangism and therefore raise awareness for thorough clinical examination in members of TPT families who are presumed to be unaffected.Ever since the identification of ZRS by Lettice et al in 2003, 18 variants in ZRS have been published in the literature.2 4 6–9 13–20 These variants are generally fully penetrant and have been found in families with either TPT or TPT with preaxial polydactyly. Exceptions to the above are point mutations on positions 105, 404 and 406 in ZRS, which cause more severe phenotypes like tibial hypoplasia and polysyndactyly.2 5–9 21Although most variants in ZRS are considered fully penetrant, reduced penetrance has buy flagyl usa been reported in several TPT families with variants on positions 295, 334, 463 and 739 in ZRS.13 14 16 17The first aim of this paper is to hypothesise that some of these observations might not be caused by reduced penetrance of the genotype, but by a subclinical expression of the phenotype.

We base our hypothesis on two arguments. First, family members who were buy flagyl usa initially presumed unaffected do show minor anomalies or altered hand function when examined appropriately. In family 1 of this study, the grandfather did not have TPT but had evident broadness of the thumb.

In family 2, patients with initially normal thumbs lacked buy flagyl usa the ability of opposition, which is caused by abnormal developmental patterning of the thumb. Although this observation is based on three patients from two families, we believe that these examples clearly illustrate our postulated hypothesis.Second, reports of non-penetrance are consistently associated with mild phenotypes in TPT families and not with severe TPT phenotypes, like tibial hypoplasia and polysyndactyly. This indicates that these observations only occur in TPT families where buy flagyl usa SHH expression is only slightly disrupted.

In these families, the variability in the phenotypical spectrum is apparently broad enough that family members with variants in ZRS can present with subclinical phenotypes instead of TPT. However, it remains unclear why the disruption of SHH causes TPT in one family member buy flagyl usa and a subclinical phenotype in another. One example of how intrafamilial variability can be explained is based on a reported family, where different degrees of somatic mosaicism were associated with various phenotypes in affected family members.22 As the regulatory function of ZRS on SHH is extremely delicate and affected by timing, location and level of activity, it is plausible that the slightest alteration of one of these factors can cause this interindividual phenotypical variation.The second aim of this paper is to underline the importance of two aspects when clinically examining and counselling patients with an inherited type of TPT.

First, it is important to clinically investigate the presumed unaffected family members, as these patients might not encounter functional buy flagyl usa problems in their daily life and will report they are unaffected. However, a distinct broadness of the thumb, a double flexion fold in the thumb or a duplicated lunula might indicate a discrete inclination for duplication of the thumb or the presence of an additional phalanx. Additionally, functional limitations regarding thumb strength or lack of buy flagyl usa opposition should be evaluated as well.

Second, presumed unaffected family members should only be informed that their future offspring have a population-wide probability of having TPT or polydactyly after genetic evaluation. For complete reassurance, genetic evaluation of ZRS is also indicated for unaffected family members of mildly affected patients to verify whether they share the same disease-causing variant with their affected family members..

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But the bill cannot get to Biden without the signoff of every Democrat in the Senate, which has not happened yet. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court heard hours of complex arguments over Texas’ novel abortion ban. But the debate was metronidazole flagyl for cats less over abortion or the court’s landmark Roe v.

Wade decision and more about whether Texas succeeded in its effort to write the law in a way that cannot be challenged in federal court. This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KHN, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call. Among the metronidazole flagyl for cats takeaways from this week’s episode.

You could call it the “Great Uncoupling”. It appears that House Democrats are ready to move forward on a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that has already passed the Senate, without getting assurance of a vote in the Senate on the metronidazole flagyl for cats social spending bill. Progressives in the House had for weeks used the vote on the infrastructure bill as leverage to try to get moderate senators, such as Joe Manchin of West Virginia, to agree to support their programs in the social spending plan.

Democrats’ gubernatorial election defeat in Virginia on Tuesday added to the momentum.The Medicare drug pricing plan announced by lawmakers is considerably different from what the House passed last year. It is not nearly as aggressive, but it does provide key protections for consumers, including a redesign of the Part D prescription drug program to limit out-of-pocket expenses to $2,000 a year.Despite strong protests from progressives, it appears highly unlikely the spending bill will provide dental or metronidazole flagyl for cats vision care for Medicare beneficiaries. Negotiators say it will contain hearing benefits.

It could be years again before Democrats get an opportunity to press for dental benefits, which were the most expensive of the three targeted benefits and the provision that created the biggest backlash from industry groups.It’s now open enrollment for both the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace insurance plans and for private Medicare Advantage and drug plans. Despite the availability of elaborate websites to browse policies and compare options, few people bother to consider switching, even though they could save hundreds or even thousands metronidazole flagyl for cats of dollars. The exercise is just too daunting.The Supreme Court heard expedited arguments Monday on the Texas law banning most abortions in the state.

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Gavin Newsom’s successful fight to avoid a recall, the issue did not seem to have a strong influence on Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, who lost a tight election Tuesday in a state Biden won easily just a year earlier. That may suggest that if the court limits abortion rights, it will not have the impact with metronidazole flagyl for cats voters that Democrats are hoping for. Also this week, Rovner interviews KHN’s Rae Ellen Bichell, who reported and wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” episode, about an emergency bill for nonemergency service.

If you metronidazole flagyl for cats have an outrageous medical bill you’d like to send us, you can do that here. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read too. Julie Rovner.

KHN’s “Labs metronidazole flagyl for cats With No One to Run Them. Why Public Health Workers Are Fleeing the Field,” by Anna Maria Barry-Jester. Margot Sanger-Katz.

The New York Times’ “If Only Laws Were Like Sausages,” by metronidazole flagyl for cats Robert Pear. Alice Miranda Ollstein. ProPublica’s “Babies Are Dying of Syphilis.

It’s 100% Preventable,” by Caroline Chen metronidazole flagyl for cats. Mary Ellen McIntire. STAT’s “‘There Was No metronidazole flagyl for cats Plan’.

Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall to Overcome buy antibiotics treatment Hesitancy,” by Theresa Gaffney. To hear all our podcasts, click here. And subscribe to metronidazole flagyl for cats KHN’s What the Health?.

on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Related Topics Contact Us Submit a Story TipPreventable rehospitalization of the nation’s older adults has proved a persistent health and financial challenge for the U.S., costing Medicare hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Various analyses have found many readmissions within a month of discharge might have been avoided through better care and more attention paid to the patients metronidazole flagyl for cats after they left the hospital.

The federal government’s campaign to reduce the frequency of so-called boomerang patients by applying financial disincentives has entered its 10th year with Medicare’s decision to lower payments to 2,499 hospitals throughout the current fiscal year, which began last month and runs through September 2022. The Hospital Readmissions Reductions Program (HRRP), created as part of the Affordable Care Act, punishes general acute-care hospitals when more Medicare patients return for a new admission within 30 days of discharge than the government decides is appropriate. The average penalty this fiscal year metronidazole flagyl for cats is 0.64%, with 39 hospitals losing the maximum of 3% of reimbursements.

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Less debatable is that the penalties have saved the government billions of dollars since their inception. The Centers metronidazole flagyl for cats for Medicare &. Medicaid Services estimates that because of the HRRP, Medicare will keep an extra $521 million this fiscal year.

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An estimated 60% of those caught in that Medicaid coverage gap are metronidazole flagyl for cats Black or Hispanic, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. And nearly two-thirds of those in the gap live in one of three Republican-controlled states. Texas (771,000), Florida (415,000) and Georgia (269,000), according to a KFF analysis.

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To help pay for that coverage and incentivize holdout states to expand Medicaid, starting in 2023 the plan would permanently cut billions in special federal Medicaid funding to the non-expansion states that helps hospitals with disproportionately high rates of metronidazole flagyl for cats uninsured or Medicaid patients. Those cuts have unsettled hospital industry officials, who worry that losing those special funds would mean less money to pay for services. €œWe always are in favor of coverage expansion,” said Beth Feldpush, senior vice president of America’s Essential Hospitals, which represents hospitals that treat many poor and uninsured patients.

€œOur concern is it is paired with cuts to the safety net, and … that is a double-edged sword.” The American Hospital Association has estimated those metronidazole flagyl for cats funding cuts would total as much as $7.8 billion over 10 years. Industry groups say hospitals need the extra Medicaid funding to handle the more than 25 million people who would remain uninsured even after the coverage expansion. But an analysis by Matthew Fiedler for the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy released Thursday found the metronidazole flagyl for cats expanded coverage would lift profit margins of hospitals in the non-expansion states by $11.9 billion in 2023 alone.

The report cites two main factors for the improvement. Hospitals getting paid for care that they already deliver but don’t currently get paid for, and hospitals seeing more demand for care as people gaining coverage seek more services. Marketplace health plans generally pay higher reimbursement rates than Medicaid — but they also often come with higher metronidazole flagyl for cats deductibles that can be difficult for patients to pay and providers to collect.

The massive spending package hinges on Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), whose support is critical. Democrats can’t afford to lose one party member vote in the 50-50 Senate, where Vice President Kamala Harris would break any ties and the GOP stands firmly metronidazole flagyl for cats against any government expansion.

But Manchin has not yet said whether he will vote for the package. Consumer advocates are ecstatic that Congress may no longer wait for intransigent Republican-controlled legislatures and governors to expand Medicaid. Republican leaders have cited a host of reasons for resisting, including metronidazole flagyl for cats that their states can’t afford the 10% match and that nondisabled adults don’t deserve Medicaid.

States could not block the coverage expansion because it falls outside of Medicaid, which is jointly funded by the federal and state governments. €œThis is a big deal,” said Anne Swerlick, a public interest attorney in Tallahassee who has lobbied Florida’s legislature to expand Medicaid. €œIt would metronidazole flagyl for cats make an extraordinary difference in the quality of life for tens of thousands of Floridians caught in the gap.

In many instances, it will be a lifesaver.” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), a key lawmaker advocating for the provision, said Congress needs “to close the coverage gap in Georgia and the 11 other states where hardworking families wake up every day without health care coverage their neighbors in 38 other states enjoy.” But, on Wednesday, he said he and Georgia's metronidazole flagyl for cats other congressional Democrats oppose the cuts to special Medicaid funding for hospitals. While most states expanded Medicaid in 2014, no state legislature has adopted it since Virginia’s in 2018.

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R.D. Williams, CEO of Hendry Regional Medical Center in Clewiston, Florida, said the Democrats’ plan would cover about 60% of the uninsured who use his hospital, which serves one metronidazole flagyl for cats of the poorest parts of the state. €œIt will definitely have an impact,” he said.

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However, Williams said he was still trying to figure out how much money he might have to give up in Medicaid metronidazole flagyl for cats funding under the bill. Those cuts would occur unless Florida expands Medicaid. Elijah Manley, 22, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, racked up more than $2,000 in bills after going to a hospital emergency room for buy antibiotics treatment last year.

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Joan Alker, director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, said the Democrats’ plan should motivate states to expand Medicaid because metronidazole flagyl for cats they could do so without losing their special Medicaid funding. €œIf it moves states, that would be great, but it ain’t going to happen,” said Chip Kahn, president of the Federation of American Hospitals, which represents for-profit hospitals. Mississippi hospitals welcome the Democrats’ plan despite concerns about funding cuts.

€œHospitals would prefer a straight-up Medicaid expansion, but at this point a thirsty man is not going to be really choosy about whether it’s bottled water, mineral water or tap water,” said Richard Roberson, a vice president at the Mississippi Hospital Association. €œAn opportunity for some coverage is better than nothing.” The Medicaid gap has contributed to the financial problems of rural hospitals in Georgia, leading to recent closures, said Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.).

On people stuck in the coverage gap. €œIt’s unfair, and folks are suffering and dying needlessly.” Anne Dunkelberg, health policy expert for the advocacy group Every Texan, said 80% of Texans in the coverage gap are in working households. €œI obviously am not going to celebrate till the ink dries, but I’d be thrilled for the working poor in Texas to get coverage.” [Update.

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Democrats on Capitol Hill hope they are nearing the finish line in their months-long quest to enact President Joe Biden’s social spending agenda. After briefly dropping from the massive bill provisions aimed at lowering prescription drug costs, lawmakers in the House and Senate reached a compromise on that issue over the weekend. Also back in the bill — at least in the House — are provisions for paid buy flagyl usa family leave.

But the bill cannot get to Biden without the signoff of every Democrat in the Senate, which has not happened yet. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court heard hours of complex arguments over Texas’ novel abortion ban. But the debate was buy flagyl usa less over abortion or the court’s landmark Roe v.

Wade decision and more about whether Texas succeeded in its effort to write the law in a way that cannot be challenged in federal court. This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KHN, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Mary Ellen McIntire of CQ Roll Call. Among the takeaways from buy flagyl usa this week’s episode.

You could call it the “Great Uncoupling”. It appears that House Democrats are ready to move forward on a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that has already passed the Senate, without getting assurance of a vote in the Senate on the buy flagyl usa social spending bill. Progressives in the House had for weeks used the vote on the infrastructure bill as leverage to try to get moderate senators, such as Joe Manchin of West Virginia, to agree to support their programs in the social spending plan.

Democrats’ gubernatorial election defeat in Virginia on Tuesday added to the momentum.The Medicare drug pricing plan announced by lawmakers is considerably different from what the House passed last year. It is not nearly as aggressive, but it does provide key protections for consumers, including a redesign of the Part D prescription drug program to limit out-of-pocket expenses to $2,000 a year.Despite strong protests from progressives, it appears highly unlikely the spending bill will provide dental or vision care for Medicare beneficiaries buy flagyl usa. Negotiators say it will contain hearing benefits.

It could be years again before Democrats get an opportunity to press for dental benefits, which were the most expensive of the three targeted benefits and the provision that created the biggest backlash from industry groups.It’s now open enrollment for both the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace insurance plans and for private Medicare Advantage and drug plans. Despite the availability of elaborate websites to browse policies and compare options, few buy flagyl usa people bother to consider switching, even though they could save hundreds or even thousands of dollars. The exercise is just too daunting.The Supreme Court heard expedited arguments Monday on the Texas law banning most abortions in the state.

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If you buy flagyl usa have an outrageous medical bill you’d like to send us, you can do that here. Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read too. Julie Rovner.

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The federal government’s campaign to reduce the frequency of so-called boomerang patients by applying financial disincentives has entered its 10th year with Medicare’s decision to lower payments to 2,499 hospitals throughout the current fiscal year, which began last month and runs through September 2022. The Hospital Readmissions Reductions Program (HRRP), created as part of the Affordable Care Act, punishes general acute-care hospitals when more Medicare patients return for a new admission within 30 days of discharge than the government decides is appropriate. The average penalty this fiscal year is 0.64%, buy flagyl usa with 39 hospitals losing the maximum of 3% of reimbursements.

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An estimated 60% of those buy flagyl usa caught in that Medicaid coverage gap are Black or Hispanic, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. And nearly two-thirds of those in the gap live in one of three Republican-controlled states. Texas (771,000), Florida (415,000) and Georgia (269,000), according to a KFF analysis.

Under the plan announced by President Joe Biden after negotiations with key Democratic lawmakers in Congress, those in the gap buy flagyl usa would qualify for ACA marketplace subsidies for four years starting in January. They would get additional cost-sharing protections starting in 2023 that would bring their out-of-pocket costs close to zero. To encourage existing Medicaid expansion states to maintain their coverage levels, the bill would raise the 90% federal matching rate for the expansion population to 93% from 2023 through 2025.

To help pay for that coverage and incentivize holdout states to expand Medicaid, starting in 2023 the plan would permanently cut billions in special federal Medicaid buy flagyl usa funding to the non-expansion states that helps hospitals with disproportionately high rates of uninsured or Medicaid patients. Those cuts have unsettled hospital industry officials, who worry that losing those special funds would mean less money to pay for services. €œWe always are in favor of coverage expansion,” said Beth Feldpush, senior vice president of America’s Essential Hospitals, which represents hospitals that treat many poor and uninsured patients.

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The report cites two main factors for the improvement. Hospitals getting paid for care that they already deliver but don’t currently get paid for, and hospitals seeing more demand for care as people gaining coverage seek more services. Marketplace health plans generally pay higher reimbursement rates than Medicaid — but they also often come with higher deductibles that can be difficult for patients buy flagyl usa to pay and providers to collect.

The massive spending package hinges on Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), whose support is critical. Democrats can’t afford to lose one party member vote in the 50-50 Senate, where Vice President buy flagyl usa Kamala Harris would break any ties and the GOP stands firmly against any government expansion.

But Manchin has not yet said whether he will vote for the package. Consumer advocates are ecstatic that Congress may no longer wait for intransigent Republican-controlled legislatures and governors to expand Medicaid. Republican leaders have cited a host of reasons for resisting, including that their states can’t afford the 10% match and that buy flagyl usa nondisabled adults don’t deserve Medicaid.

States could not block the coverage expansion because it falls outside of Medicaid, which is jointly funded by the federal and state governments. €œThis is a big deal,” said Anne Swerlick, a public interest attorney in Tallahassee who has lobbied Florida’s legislature to expand Medicaid. €œIt would make an extraordinary difference in the quality of life for tens of thousands of buy flagyl usa Floridians caught in the gap.

In many instances, it will be a lifesaver.” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), a key lawmaker advocating for the provision, said Congress needs “to close the coverage gap in Georgia and the 11 other states buy flagyl usa where hardworking families wake up every day without health care coverage their neighbors in 38 other states enjoy.” But, on Wednesday, he said he and Georgia's other congressional Democrats oppose the cuts to special Medicaid funding for hospitals. While most states expanded Medicaid in 2014, no state legislature has adopted it since Virginia’s in 2018.

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R.D. Williams, CEO of Hendry Regional Medical Center in Clewiston, Florida, said the Democrats’ plan would cover about 60% of the uninsured buy flagyl usa who use his hospital, which serves one of the poorest parts of the state. €œIt will definitely have an impact,” he said.

Expanding coverage, he said, buy flagyl usa would help many patients better manage their health by getting access to primary care doctors and specialists. Medicaid enrollees make up 25% of Williams’ patients, while more than 30% have no coverage. €œOur largest payer group is the uninsured,” he said.

However, Williams buy flagyl usa said he was still trying to figure out how much money he might have to give up in Medicaid funding under the bill. Those cuts would occur unless Florida expands Medicaid. Elijah Manley, 22, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, racked up more than $2,000 in bills after going to a hospital emergency room for buy antibiotics treatment last year.

Without insurance, he has no way to pay and fears buy flagyl usa it will hurt his credit. He’s been uninsured since he aged out of Medicaid when he turned 21. Manley works part time in a bar and also is one of several Democrats running for a special primary election for a state House seat in January.

He hopes Congress will pass a buy flagyl usa plan that gives him access to free or low-cost insurance so he doesn’t have to think twice about going to the doctor. €œIt would be very helpful to me, as I have a couple things I want to check out,” he said, noting he has a family history of diabetes. It’s been nearly a decade since the Supreme Court in 2012 narrowly upheld the ACA but made its Medicaid expansion provision optional for states.

Joan Alker, director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, said the Democrats’ plan should motivate states to expand buy flagyl usa Medicaid because they could do so without losing their special Medicaid funding. €œIf it moves states, that would be great, but it ain’t going to happen,” said Chip Kahn, president of the Federation of American Hospitals, which represents for-profit hospitals. Mississippi hospitals welcome the Democrats’ plan despite concerns about funding cuts.

€œHospitals would prefer a straight-up Medicaid expansion, but at this point a thirsty man is not going to be really choosy about whether it’s bottled water, mineral water or tap water,” said Richard Roberson, a vice president at the Mississippi Hospital Association. €œAn opportunity for some coverage is better than nothing.” The Medicaid gap has contributed to the financial problems of rural hospitals in Georgia, leading to recent closures, said Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.).

On people stuck in the coverage gap. €œIt’s unfair, and folks are suffering and dying needlessly.” Anne Dunkelberg, health policy expert for the advocacy group Every Texan, said 80% of Texans in the coverage gap are in working households. €œI obviously am not going to celebrate till the ink dries, but I’d be thrilled for the working poor in Texas to get coverage.” [Update.

This article was updated at 1 p.m. ET on Nov. 4, 2021, to cite a new analysis from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.] Phil Galewitz.

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Latest Prevention & dog diarrhea after flagyl you could try this out. Wellness News dog diarrhea after flagyl By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Jan. 12, 2021A special calorie-burning type of body fat appears to help protect against an array of chronic ailments, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, a new study suggests.Brown fat generates heat by drawing glucose from the bloodstream, as opposed to energy-storing white fat, explained senior researcher Dr. Paul Cohen dog diarrhea after flagyl.

He's an dog diarrhea after flagyl assistant professor and senior attending physician at the Rockefeller University Hospital in New York City.That sort of a tissue sounds like a godsend. However, brown fat has been long thought to have little impact on human health because your stores of brown fat diminish as you age.But research now shows that adults who have active brown fat tissues in their bodies are far less likely than their peers to suffer from a range of chronic illnesses.What's more, this protective effect holds even if the person carries excess weight, researchers reported recently in the journal Nature Medicine."When we grouped our subjects based on their body mass index, we saw that even obese people with brown fat show protection from these conditions," Cohen said."For example, it's well known that type 2 diabetes is more common in overweight and obese individuals, but what we saw was that even obese individuals who have brown fat have a significantly lower likelihood of type 2 diabetes than obese individuals without brown fat," he continued.Brown fat is thought to be an evolutionary response to cold weather, helping generate heat to maintain the body's core temperature, experts say."Babies cannot shiver, and so when they are cold they would activate the brown fat and stay warm that way," said Ruth Loos, director of the Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program at the Charles R. Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City."For a long time it was believed it's present in babies, and as dog diarrhea after flagyl we age, it was believed that it would disappear," Loos said. "Now with better ways to measure, we now know that it does not totally disappear in adults.

Some people do dog diarrhea after flagyl have a measurable amount of brown fat, which we did not know before."Scans reveal depositsCohen said that studies performed about a decade ago "generated a lot of enthusiasm because they showed that adult humans have brown fat that can be stimulated by cold exposure and that it's functional, meaning it takes up glucose from the bloodstream."Brown fat is found in a layer of fat under the skin, typically in a region extending from the base of the head and along the shoulders, and then down the spine, said Dr. Aaron Cypess, acting dog diarrhea after flagyl chief of the translational physiology section of the diabetes, endocrinology and obesity branch of the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.Researchers can detect active brown fat stores using PET scans that are normally used to diagnose and track cancer by looking for tissues burning heavy levels of glucose.Cohen and his team reached out to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, obtaining more than 130,000 PET scans from more than 52,000 patients. They then reviewed those scans to search for brown fat deposits.Nearly 10% of dog diarrhea after flagyl the patients carried active brown fat, Cohen said.

He added that this is likely an underestimate because patients undergoing the scans had been asked to avoid cold exposure, exercise and caffeine, all of which increase brown fat activity.The researchers verified earlier findings about brown fat -- that women are more likely to carry it than men, that the amount of brown fat decreases as you age and gain weight, and that active brown fat is more likely to be found in scans done in cold versus warm weather.But when the research team compared brown fat levels to the patients' medical histories, they found new associations between brown fat tissue and better overall health in people, regardless of weight. SLIDESHOW How to Lose Weight dog diarrhea after flagyl Without Dieting. 24 Fast Facts See Slideshow For example, people with dog diarrhea after flagyl active brown fat have improved levels of cholesterol and blood sugars. They also were less likely to have high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes."Some of those associations have never been documented before," Cohen said, though the study did not definitively prove that brown fat causes disease risk to drop.Healthy lifestyles still keyIt's not yet clear why this link might exist, Cypess said."Is it through the simple process of burning up glucose and fat to keep you warm, or is brown fat acting also as an endocrine organ that releases hormones into the blood and leads to these benefits?.

" Cypess said.It doesn't take extreme cold to activate brown fat, Cohen noted -- even a couple of hours dog diarrhea after flagyl in a 60-degree Fahrenheit room is sufficient.That temperature "is cool but certainly not frigid," Cohen said. "I think it's intriguing from a public health perspective that simply lowering our thermostats by a few degrees may result in health benefits."Researchers and pharmaceutical companies also are looking into drugs that might activate brown fat and promote these benefits, Cohen said.However, the experts all agreed that too little is known about brown fat for anyone to try to either lose weight or gain health benefits by gallivanting about in cool rooms or the frigid outdoors."If you ate less at a meal, you might be better off dropping some weight than trying to increase your brown fat," Cypess said. "I'm still going to tell you the two things you have to do is dog diarrhea after flagyl eat a healthy meal plan and exercise, and we're hoping we can bring brown fat activity into that plan."More informationThe U.S. National Institutes of dog diarrhea after flagyl Health has more about brown fat.SOURCES.

Paul Cohen, MD, PhD, assistant professor and senior attending physician, Rockefeller University Hospital, New York City. Ruth Loos, PhD, director, Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic dog diarrhea after flagyl Traits Program, Charles R. Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City. Aaron Cypess, MD, PhD, acting chief, translational physiology section, diabetes, dog diarrhea after flagyl endocrinology and obesity branch, U.S.

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Latest Prevention buy flagyl usa & How much does cialis 20mg cost per pill. Wellness News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay buy flagyl usa ReporterTUESDAY, Jan. 12, 2021A special calorie-burning type of body fat appears to help protect against an array of chronic ailments, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, a new study suggests.Brown fat generates heat by drawing glucose from the bloodstream, as opposed to energy-storing white fat, explained senior researcher Dr. Paul Cohen buy flagyl usa.

He's an assistant professor and senior attending physician at the Rockefeller University Hospital in New York City.That sort of a tissue sounds like a buy flagyl usa godsend. However, brown fat has been long thought to have little impact on human health because your stores of brown fat diminish as you age.But research now shows that adults who have active brown fat tissues in their bodies are far less likely than their peers to suffer from a range of chronic illnesses.What's more, this protective effect holds even if the person carries excess weight, researchers reported recently in the journal Nature Medicine."When we grouped our subjects based on their body mass index, we saw that even obese people with brown fat show protection from these conditions," Cohen said."For example, it's well known that type 2 diabetes is more common in overweight and obese individuals, but what we saw was that even obese individuals who have brown fat have a significantly lower likelihood of type 2 diabetes than obese individuals without brown fat," he continued.Brown fat is thought to be an evolutionary response to cold weather, helping generate heat to maintain the body's core temperature, experts say."Babies cannot shiver, and so when they are cold they would activate the brown fat and stay warm that way," said Ruth Loos, director of the Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program at the Charles R. Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City."For a long time it was believed it's present in babies, and as we age, it was believed that it would disappear," Loos buy flagyl usa said. "Now with better ways to measure, we now know that it does not totally disappear in adults.

Some people do have a measurable amount of brown fat, which we did not know before."Scans reveal depositsCohen said that studies performed buy flagyl usa about a decade ago "generated a lot of enthusiasm because they showed that adult humans have brown fat that can be stimulated by cold exposure and that it's functional, meaning it takes up glucose from the bloodstream."Brown fat is found in a layer of fat under the skin, typically in a region extending from the base of the head and along the shoulders, and then down the spine, said Dr. Aaron Cypess, buy flagyl usa acting chief of the translational physiology section of the diabetes, endocrinology and obesity branch of the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.Researchers can detect active brown fat stores using PET scans that are normally used to diagnose and track cancer by looking for tissues burning heavy levels of glucose.Cohen and his team reached out to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, obtaining more than 130,000 PET scans from more than 52,000 patients. They then reviewed those scans to search for brown fat deposits.Nearly 10% of the patients buy flagyl usa carried active brown fat, Cohen said.

He added that this is likely an underestimate because patients undergoing the scans had been asked to avoid cold exposure, exercise and caffeine, all of which increase brown fat activity.The researchers verified earlier findings about brown fat -- that women are more likely to carry it than men, that the amount of brown fat decreases as you age and gain weight, and that active brown fat is more likely to be found in scans done in cold versus warm weather.But when the research team compared brown fat levels to the patients' medical histories, they found new associations between brown fat tissue and better overall health in people, regardless of weight. SLIDESHOW How to Lose Weight Without buy flagyl usa Dieting. 24 Fast Facts See Slideshow For example, people with active brown fat have improved levels of cholesterol and buy flagyl usa blood sugars. They also were less likely to have high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes."Some of those associations have never been documented before," Cohen said, though the study did not definitively prove that brown fat causes disease risk to drop.Healthy lifestyles still keyIt's not yet clear why this link might exist, Cypess said."Is it through the simple process of burning up glucose and fat to keep you warm, or is brown fat acting also as an endocrine organ that releases hormones into the blood and leads to these benefits?.

" Cypess said.It doesn't take extreme buy flagyl usa cold to activate brown fat, Cohen noted -- even a couple of hours in a 60-degree Fahrenheit room is sufficient.That temperature "is cool but certainly not frigid," Cohen said. "I think it's intriguing from a public health perspective that simply lowering our thermostats by a few degrees may result in health benefits."Researchers and pharmaceutical companies also are looking into drugs that might activate brown fat and promote these benefits, Cohen said.However, the experts all agreed that too little is known about brown fat for anyone to try to either lose weight or gain health benefits by gallivanting about in cool rooms or the frigid outdoors."If you ate less at a meal, you might be better off dropping some weight than trying to increase your brown fat," Cypess said. "I'm still going to tell you the two things you have buy flagyl usa to do is eat a healthy meal plan and exercise, and we're hoping we can bring brown fat activity into that plan."More informationThe U.S. National Institutes buy flagyl usa of Health has more about brown fat.SOURCES.

Paul Cohen, MD, PhD, assistant professor and senior attending physician, Rockefeller University Hospital, New York City. Ruth Loos, PhD, director, Genetics of Obesity and Related buy flagyl usa Metabolic Traits Program, Charles R. Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City. Aaron Cypess, MD, PhD, acting chief, translational physiology section, diabetes, endocrinology and obesity buy flagyl usa branch, U.S.

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You have to go to extreme lengths to find places on Earth that don’t reveal that they’re part of a flagyl and nausea water-rich planet flagyl best price. Even the highest and driest deserts, like the Atacama Plateau in South America, still get a minimum of a couple of millimeters of annual precipitation on average (although there are places where we don’t yet know what the average is because it’s simply not rained for years). And if you whip out your handy mass spectrometer on a desert walkabout the chances are that you’ll be able to detect at least a few atmospheric water molecules flagyl and nausea. Go elsewhere, and it’s hard to imagine anything but a water-logged world. More than 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered in oceans and roughly 97 percent of the surface water is in those oceans, leaving a scant 1 percent as freshwater.

Water is also seldom static, whether it’s flowing in ocean currents or being evaporated and flagyl and nausea precipitated. Averaged out over the planet there is about 100 centimeters of rainfall a year, but that’s across a total surface area of around 5.1x1018 square centimeters. In other words, doing the back-of-the-envelope calculation, some 510 trillion metric tons of water gets evaporated and then re-precipitated every year on Earth. But the catch is that we don’t really know where all of flagyl and nausea this water came from in the first place. For a long while our picture of the formation of a rocky planet like the Earth has involved a violent, hot assembly some 4.5 billion years ago out of comparatively dry material in the inner solar system.

Water would have come along later, with proposals for possible delivery by comets from the chill, frozen outer solar system, or by rocky but still volatile-rich meteoritic infall. But these options have proven tricky to justify flagyl and nausea completely for a variety of reasons. Comets, for instance, often (but not always) have a deuterium concentration that doesn’t match what we see in Earth’s water—limiting their likely contribution. Similarly, water-rich rocky meteoritic material—so-called carbonaceous chondrites—have flagyl and nausea isotopic differences that could also limit how much they contributed to a young planet. At the same time, the representative type of material for building the entirety of a rocky Earth (and matching the planet’s overall isotopic composition in elements like oxygen and calcium) seems to closely resemble what’s called enstatite chondrite.

Chunks of enstatite chondrite are still around in the solar system, and occasionally fall as meteorites. But they’ve been thought to be too dry to flagyl and nausea be involved in Earth’s water supply. Now, in a work reported by Piani, et al. In the journal Science, an analysis of the composition of 13 enstatite chondrite meteorite samples reveals a much higher than expected hydrogen content. Extrapolating from these numbers the researchers claim that if this is the type flagyl and nausea of protoplanetary material that built Earth, it could have resulted in a total, initial water content of at least three times the present mass of water in our oceans.

The same material could have also provided a starter mix of atmospheric nitrogen to the young planet. This possibility is enormously appealing for its relative simplicity. Our wet world was simply made this way from the very beginning, with little need to invoke any more complex evolution except for a small drizzling flagyl and nausea from comets and other outer solar system material. Whether or not this idea holds up to further scientific scrutiny, it’s a beautiful reminder that even the simplest things in our lives, like a glass of water or a shower in the morning, are actually windows into the deepest origins of everything we know.Scientists just completed one of the most comprehensive investigations of Earth’s climate history—and the findings aren’t favorable. They found that the planet could eventually warm to levels it hasn’t reached in at least 34 million years.

The researchers, led by Thomas Westerhold of the University of Bremen in Germany, constructed datasets using chemical analyses of ancient sediments, drilled from the flagyl and nausea bottom of the ocean. These sediments, some of which are 66 million years old, are filled with the preserved shells of tiny organisms that can tell scientists about the temperature and chemical composition of the ocean when they were formed. The sediments, collected from around the world over the course of many years, allowed flagyl and nausea the researchers to reconstruct Earth’s climate history going back to the mass extinction that killed three-quarters of the planet’s species, including dinosaurs. They found that the planet has passed through four distinct climate phases. Warmhouse, hothouse, coolhouse and icehouse states.

Transitions from one flagyl and nausea state to another have generally depended on changing greenhouse gas levels, often driven by volcanic eruptions and other natural processes, and shifts in the Earth’s orbit that affected the amount of solar energy reaching the planet. In the hottest phases, more than 50 million years ago, temperatures on Earth were more than 10 degrees Celsius hotter than they are today. But it’s important to note that it took the planet thousands or even millions of years to reach these levels—and that was long before humans ever walked the Earth. That’s in stark contrast to the kind of climate change that human activity is flagyl and nausea driving today. For several million years now, the world has been in an icehouse state.

But that’s quickly changing. If human societies do nothing to curb their greenhouse gas emissions, in just a few centuries the flagyl and nausea Earth could once again reach a temperature threshold not seen for at least 34 million years. Before the industrial era, such a magnitude of warming would have taken thousands of years to occur, at least. €œIf you look at the worst-case scenario [by 2300], the change in mean global temperature is larger than most of the natural variability going back over the last 66 million years related to changes flagyl and nausea in the Earth’s orbit,” said Jim Zachos, a paleoclimatologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a co-author of the new study, which was published Thursday in the journal Science. It’s not an inevitable future.

With immediate and stringent action to reduce climate change, the world can keep global temperatures from rising more than a few degrees above their preindustrial levels. But the study does warn that without these efforts, Earth is on flagyl and nausea track for some of the strongest, fastest climate change the planet has ever experienced. The study may also provide some important insights into how climate change could unfold in the coming decades and centuries. Earth’s climate doesn’t always shift in linear, predictable ways. There are flagyl and nausea all kinds of feedback processes that can speed things up or slow things down—such as the speed at which glaciers and sea ice melt or the way that clouds change in response to future warming.

In the ancient past, for instance, the study suggests that the world’s ice sheets played an important role in regulating the pace and predictability of the Earth’s climate response to natural changes in greenhouse gases or orbital shifts. Today, scientists believe that the world’s melting ice may also have a big impact on future climate change. These kinds of feedback processes can make flagyl and nausea it challenging to predict future change, especially over relatively short periods of time. Reconstructing the Earth’s long-term climate history can help scientists test the models they use to predict its future. If a model can accurately simulate the past, scientists may have more confidence in its ability to simulate present-day climate processes.

€œThat’s the beauty of this record,” flagyl and nausea Zachos said. €œIt’s something we’ve always wanted to have because of the applicability to testing climate theory.” Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from E&E News. E&E provides daily coverage of essential energy and environmental news at www.eenews.net.Woo-hoo, flagyl and nausea d’oh, or meh?. Which of these Simpsonian reactions is appropriate to the fact, revealed by a 2019 survey conducted by researchers at Penn State University and the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), that about two in three—67 percent—of public high school biology teachers are presenting evolution forthrightly, emphasizing the broad scientific consensus on evolution while not giving any credence to creationism?. Only in the context of the long and contentious history of evolution education in the United States is it clear what the most plausible answer is.

American teachers have not always been afforded the luxury flagyl and nausea of teaching evolution forthrightly. John Thomas Scopes, for example, was famously prosecuted for violating Tennessee’s ban on teaching evolution in 1925. Although his conviction was subsequently overturned, a national survey of high school biology teachers conducted in 1939–1940 revealed that only about half were teaching evolution as a central principle of biology. And bans on teaching evolution flagyl and nausea remained in place in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee until 1970. New obstacles then emerged, particularly requirements to teach various forms of creationism as alternatives to evolution.

As recently as 15 years ago, in Dover, Pennsylvania, the local school board attempted to require its high school biology teachers to read a statement to their ninth-grade students describing “Darwin’s theory of evolution” as “not a fact,” and commending “intelligent design”—then a trendy slogan for creationism—to their attention as a scientifically credible alternative. The teachers, flagyl and nausea to their credit, unanimously refused to comply. But their refusal, together with the controversy surrounding the related trial over the constitutionality of the board’s actions, Kitzmiller v. Dover, intrigued two parents a flagyl and nausea hundred miles to the northwest, in State College, Pa. Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer were not just any concerned parents, though.

They were political scientists at Penn State with a particular interest in education policy. What—they wondered—are high school biology flagyl and nausea teachers teaching about evolution, and what factors influence their teaching practices?. To satisfy their curiosity, Berkman and Plutzer conducted the first modern national survey of high school biology teachers in 2007. The results were dire. Only a slight majority, 51 percent, reported that they emphasized the broad scientific consensus on evolution while not giving any credence to creationism, as if to suggest no progress in the 67 years flagyl and nausea since the less rigorous survey of 1939–1940.

That’s why the results of the 2019 survey—a collaboration between Plutzer and the NCSE—are so encouraging. Between 2007 and 2019, there definitely was progress. From 51 percent of high school biology teachers reporting emphasizing evolution and not creationism in flagyl and nausea 2007 to 67 percent in 2019. It was matched by a drop from 23 to 12 percent of teachers who offer mixed messages by endorsing both evolution and creationism as a valid scientific alternative to evolution, from 18 to 15 percent of teachers who endorse neither evolution nor creationism, and from 8.6 to 5.6 percent of teachers who endorse creationism while not endorsing evolution. Credit.

National Center flagyl and nausea for Science Education What accounts for the improvement?. Did intelligent design’s crushing defeat in the Kitzmiller trial make the difference?. Probably flagyl and nausea not. Science teachers are guided not by case law but by state science standards, which specify what students in the state’s public schools are expected to learn. Standards thus influence the content of textbooks, statewide testing, and coursework for pre-service and in-service teachers.

Importantly, they flagyl and nausea also provide a shield for teachers facing misguided community pressure over socially contentious topics like evolution. The results of the 2019 survey suggest that a concerted effort to improve state science standards helped to improve evolution education. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), which debuted in 2013, include “Biological Evolution. Unity and Diversity” as a disciplinary core idea of the life sciences at the middle and high flagyl and nausea school levels. By now, 20 states (plus the District of Columbia) have adopted the NGSS, and a further 24 states have adopted standards based on the same evolution-friendly framework on which the NGSS are based.

Were states that adopted the NGSS especially hospitable to the teaching of evolution?. Not really flagyl and nausea. In 2007, their teachers were less likely to endorse evolution and not creationism than the national average. By 2019, they were more likely. While a variety of explanations are possible, teachers in NGSS states reported having taken more pre-service and in-service coursework in evolution than their colleagues elsewhere, suggesting that the increased expectations impelled both novice flagyl and nausea and veteran teachers to upgrade their content knowledge of evolution.

Despite the encouraging trend over a mere dozen years, there is still reason for concern. After all, more than flagyl and nausea one in six high school biology teachers, 17.6 percent, are still presenting creationism as a scientifically credible alternative to evolution. And almost as many high school biology teachers, 15 percent, are still failing to emphasize the broad scientific consensus on evolution, despite its general prevalence in state science standards and despite encouragement from professional organizations. D’oh!. With 13,500-odd local school districts having primary responsibility for curriculum and instruction, changes to science flagyl and nausea education are inevitably going to be slow, scattered and incremental.

Still, with the aid of uncounted scientists, educators, policymakers, administrators and concerned citizens in general (and perhaps even a certain episode of The Simpsons), clear and convincing improvements for evolution education were demonstrably attained in just a dozen years. It is a victory worth not only celebrating—woo-hoo!. €”but also enlarging upon.ARGENTINA flagyl and nausea The earliest dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs, paleontologists say. A new chemical analysis of a more than 200-million-year-old fossilized egg from Patagonia—and a clutch of more recent eggs from Mongolia, found in the Gobi Desert—revealed a thin film matching the characteristics of modern soft-shelled eggs. ENGLAND Archaeologists found that 20 deep shafts, previously thought to be natural sinkholes and ponds, were dug by Neolithic humans.

The shafts form a circle two kilometers in diameter, with the Durrington Walls monument at flagyl and nausea its center, just three kilometers from Stonehenge. BRAZIL In a new paper, researchers documented the largest lightning bolt ever recorded. The “mega-flash,” which extended for more than 700 kilometers in southern Brazil in 2018, was detected by a new advanced weather satellite in geostationary flagyl and nausea orbit. ISRAEL Researchers sequenced DNA samples from the Dead Sea Scrolls, identifying fragments made from sheep skin and others made from cow hide. The technique could help match fragments together and unravel the artifacts' geographic origins.

INDONESIA Scientists identified an elusive nose-horned dragon lizard in the forests flagyl and nausea of North Sumatra. Despite appearing in the mythology of the indigenous Bataks, the visually striking species had been spotted by scientists only once before—almost 130 years ago. AUSTRALIA Submarine drones uncovered an extensive system of underwater “rivers” of dense, salty water along Australia's continental shelf. These flows carry organic matter from the coast into the deep ocean, and their volume varies seasonally, peaking in winter.The items below are flagyl and nausea highlights from the free newsletter, “Smart, useful, science stuff about buy antibiotics.” To receive newsletter issues daily in your inbox, sign-up here.. Please consider a monthly contribution to support this newsletter.

At Nature, Nicky Phillips, David Cyranoski and Smriti Mallapaty covered the announcement that a collaboration between researchers at AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is pausing Phase 3 treatment-candidate experiments due to a “suspected adverse event” in a study participant in the UK (9/9/20). The collaboration’s Phase 3 studies are being paused in the U.S., Brazil, South Africa and flagyl and nausea the UK, Nature reports. €œThe news highlights the importance of waiting for the results of large, properly designed trials [experiments] to assess safety before approving a treatment for widespread use,” the story states. Investigators will start by trying to find out if the participant received the treatment candidate or a placebo, the story states. And then if it was the treatment, they will assess whether the participant’s reaction is related flagyl and nausea or unrelated to receiving it.

€œI have every confidence that this group [of investigators] will very quickly assess this adverse event and make the results of that investigation known,” said a McGill University bioethicist quoted in the story. Presumably in response to reports of political pushing for approvals this fall, the chief executive officers (CEOs) of 9 pharmaceutical companies released a pledge (dated 9/8/20) to “uphold the integrity of the scientific process as they work towards potential global regulatory filings and approvals of the first buy antibiotics treatments.” The CEOs — including flagyl and nausea those for AstraZeneca, BioNTech, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson &. Johnson, Merck, Moderna, and Pfizer — assert they will “only submit for approval or emergency use authorization after demonstrating safety and efficacy through a Phase 3 clinical study that is designed and conducted to meet requirements of expert regulatory authorities such as [the U.S. Food and Drug Administration].” In other words, they don’t plan to cut any corners in their research nor to yield to political pressure. For more contextualized commentary on what Ed Silverman describes flagyl and nausea as a “highly unusual turn of events," see his column at STAT (9/7/20).

Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has quickly taken measures to block any political influence over ongoing research to develop treatments to protect us from antibiotics, report Anna Edney, Drew Armstrong, and Robert Langreth for Bloomberg (9/8/20). One measure flagyl and nausea reportedly includes the FDA “sticking by" June guidance that the agency will only consider for approval treatment candidates that are at least 50% effective. Lower down in the story, the reporters write, “There is no guarantee the treatments furthest along in development will be the most effective, or be safe.” And it could take “months more” for Phase 3 findings to be conclusive, the story suggests. Still, the story ends with estimates by drug makers for how soon they might complete their Phase 3 studies (efficacy and safety experiments in thousands of study subjects) of antibiotics treatment candidates.

Moderna reportedly says as soon as Thanksgiving, and Pfizer flagyl and nausea reportedly has been saying next month. I remain reasonably skeptical. On Twitter, I came across a searchable web flagyl and nausea site called “Dear flagyl,” which bills itself as an “interdisciplinary all-female team of researchers and clinicians with expertise including nursing, mental health, demography, health policy/economics, and epidemiology.” Posts date back to July but the site appears to have officially launched 9/10/20. Their mission is to “educate and empower individuals to successfully navigate the buy antibiotics information overwhelm.” About two-thirds of the way down the home page, there’s a “submit a question” link. And below that, previous posts are indexed by topic and dates.

The risk of catching antibiotics on an airplane is “relatively low” if travelers are screened for sickness, wear masks, and are spaced out among flagyl and nausea seats, according to experts interviewed by Noah Y. Kim for Kaiser Health News (9/10/20). The air exchange rate and use of HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filters on planes also significantly reduce the risk of catching the flagyl from travelers who are several rows away, according to the story. There is still a risk from an infected person seated nearby, the story flagyl and nausea states. And air filtration alone is insufficient to prevent transmission even when travelers are distanced in the plane, Kim writes.

Delta, Hawaiian, Southwest and JetBlue currently keep middle seats open, the story states. Security checks and flagyl and nausea waiting at gates also pose some transmission risk. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has not confirmed any antibiotics transmission aboard a U.S. Flight, an flagyl and nausea airline industry source says in the story, but that might reflect the difficulty of determining where people in the U.S.

Contract the flagyl, Kim writes. €œEven though flying is a relatively low-risk activity,” the story states, “traveling should still be avoided unless absolutely necessary.” An undated, recently published ESPN interactive, bylined by Kyle Bonagura, illustrates its analysis and mapping of anonymized cellphone tracking data for three 2019 U.S. College football games. The maps provide a sense of where fans travel to and disperse to after games and thus the regional concentration of potential antibiotics (and other infectious disease) spread resulting from the mixing of people before, during and after big match-ups. The piece includes updates on some of the football conferences’ plans and protocols for the 2020 season.

The Big Ten and Pac-12 have postponed their seasons, whereas the SEC (Southeastern Conference) seems to be allowing each school to set its own attendance guidelines. I can’t pretend to follow NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) football designations but some or all of the NCAA teams drew “more than 47.5 million" attendees last season, the piece states. €œEven with fewer teams in action and limited-capacity crowds, the prospect that college football could play a role in spreading the antibiotics is too obvious to ignore,” the story states. Thanks to a reader for alerting me to this piece. Check out “To build emotional strength, expand your brain,” by Kerry Hannon at The New York Times (9/2/20).

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You have to go to extreme lengths to find places on Earth that don’t reveal that they’re part of a water-rich buy flagyl with free samples planet buy flagyl usa. Even the highest and driest deserts, like the Atacama Plateau in South America, still get a minimum of a couple of millimeters of annual precipitation on average (although there are places where we don’t yet know what the average is because it’s simply not rained for years). And if you whip out your handy mass spectrometer on a desert walkabout the chances are that you’ll be able to detect at least a few atmospheric water molecules buy flagyl usa.

Go elsewhere, and it’s hard to imagine anything but a water-logged world. More than 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered in oceans and roughly 97 percent of the surface water is in those oceans, leaving a scant 1 percent as freshwater. Water is also buy flagyl usa seldom static, whether it’s flowing in ocean currents or being evaporated and precipitated.

Averaged out over the planet there is about 100 centimeters of rainfall a year, but that’s across a total surface area of around 5.1x1018 square centimeters. In other words, doing the back-of-the-envelope calculation, some 510 trillion metric tons of water gets evaporated and then re-precipitated every year on Earth. But the catch is that we don’t really know buy flagyl usa where all of this water came from in the first place.

For a long while our picture of the formation of a rocky planet like the Earth has involved a violent, hot assembly some 4.5 billion years ago out of comparatively dry material in the inner solar system. Water would have come along later, with proposals for possible delivery by comets from the chill, frozen outer solar system, or by rocky but still volatile-rich meteoritic infall. But these options have proven tricky to justify completely for a variety buy flagyl usa of reasons.

Comets, for instance, often (but not always) have a deuterium concentration that doesn’t match what we see in Earth’s water—limiting their likely contribution. Similarly, water-rich rocky meteoritic material—so-called carbonaceous chondrites—have isotopic differences that could also limit buy flagyl usa how much they contributed to a young planet. At the same time, the representative type of material for building the entirety of a rocky Earth (and matching the planet’s overall isotopic composition in elements like oxygen and calcium) seems to closely resemble what’s called enstatite chondrite.

Chunks of enstatite chondrite are still around in the solar system, and occasionally fall as meteorites. But they’ve been thought to be too dry to be involved in Earth’s water supply buy flagyl usa. Now, in a work reported by Piani, et al.

In the journal Science, an analysis of the composition of 13 enstatite chondrite meteorite samples reveals a much higher than expected hydrogen content. Extrapolating from these numbers the researchers claim that if this is the type of protoplanetary material that built buy flagyl usa Earth, it could have resulted in a total, initial water content of at least three times the present mass of water in our oceans. The same material could have also provided a starter mix of atmospheric nitrogen to the young planet.

This possibility is enormously appealing for its relative simplicity. Our wet world was simply made this way from the very beginning, with little need to invoke any more complex evolution except for a small buy flagyl usa drizzling from comets and other outer solar system material. Whether or not this idea holds up to further scientific scrutiny, it’s a beautiful reminder that even the simplest things in our lives, like a glass of water or a shower in the morning, are actually windows into the deepest origins of everything we know.Scientists just completed one of the most comprehensive investigations of Earth’s climate history—and the findings aren’t favorable.

They found that the planet could eventually warm to levels it hasn’t reached in at least 34 million years. The researchers, led by Thomas Westerhold of the University of Bremen in Germany, constructed datasets using chemical analyses of ancient sediments, drilled from the bottom of the buy flagyl usa ocean. These sediments, some of which are 66 million years old, are filled with the preserved shells of tiny organisms that can tell scientists about the temperature and chemical composition of the ocean when they were formed.

The sediments, collected from around the world over the course buy flagyl usa of many years, allowed the researchers to reconstruct Earth’s climate history going back to the mass extinction that killed three-quarters of the planet’s species, including dinosaurs. They found that the planet has passed through four distinct climate phases. Warmhouse, hothouse, coolhouse and icehouse states.

Transitions from one state to another have generally depended on changing greenhouse gas levels, buy flagyl usa often driven by volcanic eruptions and other natural processes, and shifts in the Earth’s orbit that affected the amount of solar energy reaching the planet. In the hottest phases, more than 50 million years ago, temperatures on Earth were more than 10 degrees Celsius hotter than they are today. But it’s important to note that it took the planet thousands or even millions of years to reach these levels—and that was long before humans ever walked the Earth.

That’s in stark contrast to the buy flagyl usa kind of climate change that human activity is driving today. For several million years now, the world has been in an icehouse state. But that’s quickly changing.

If human societies do nothing to curb their greenhouse gas emissions, in buy flagyl usa just a few centuries the Earth could once again reach a temperature threshold not seen for at least 34 million years. Before the industrial era, such a magnitude of warming would have taken thousands of years to occur, at least. €œIf you look at the worst-case scenario [by 2300], buy flagyl usa the change in mean global temperature is larger than most of the natural variability going back over the last 66 million years related to changes in the Earth’s orbit,” said Jim Zachos, a paleoclimatologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a co-author of the new study, which was published Thursday in the journal Science.

It’s not an inevitable future. With immediate and stringent action to reduce climate change, the world can keep global temperatures from rising more than a few degrees above their preindustrial levels. But the study does warn that without these efforts, Earth is on track for some of the strongest, fastest climate change the buy flagyl usa planet has ever experienced.

The study may also provide some important insights into how climate change could unfold in the coming decades and centuries. Earth’s climate doesn’t always shift in linear, predictable ways. There are all kinds of feedback processes that can speed things up or slow things down—such as the speed at which glaciers and sea ice melt or the way that clouds change in buy flagyl usa response to future warming.

In the ancient past, for instance, the study suggests that the world’s ice sheets played an important role in regulating the pace and predictability of the Earth’s climate response to natural changes in greenhouse gases or orbital shifts. Today, scientists believe that the world’s melting ice may also have a big impact on future climate change. These kinds of feedback processes can make it challenging to predict future change, especially over relatively buy flagyl usa short periods of time.

Reconstructing the Earth’s long-term climate history can help scientists test the models they use to predict its future. If a model can accurately simulate the past, scientists may have more confidence in its ability to simulate present-day climate processes. €œThat’s the beauty buy flagyl usa of this record,” Zachos said.

€œIt’s something we’ve always wanted to have because of the applicability to testing climate theory.” Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from E&E News. E&E provides daily coverage of essential energy and environmental news at www.eenews.net.Woo-hoo, buy flagyl usa d’oh, or meh?. Which of these Simpsonian reactions is appropriate to the fact, revealed by a 2019 survey conducted by researchers at Penn State University and the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), that about two in three—67 percent—of public high school biology teachers are presenting evolution forthrightly, emphasizing the broad scientific consensus on evolution while not giving any credence to creationism?.

Only in the context of the long and contentious history of evolution education in the United States is it clear what the most plausible answer is. American teachers have not always been afforded the luxury buy flagyl usa of teaching evolution forthrightly. John Thomas Scopes, for example, was famously prosecuted for violating Tennessee’s ban on teaching evolution in 1925.

Although his conviction was subsequently overturned, a national survey of high school biology teachers conducted in 1939–1940 revealed that only about half were teaching evolution as a central principle of biology. And bans on teaching evolution remained in place in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee until 1970 buy flagyl usa. New obstacles then emerged, particularly requirements to teach various forms of creationism as alternatives to evolution.

As recently as 15 years ago, in Dover, Pennsylvania, the local school board attempted to require its high school biology teachers to read a statement to their ninth-grade students describing “Darwin’s theory of evolution” as “not a fact,” and commending “intelligent design”—then a trendy slogan for creationism—to their attention as a scientifically credible alternative. The teachers, to their buy flagyl usa credit, unanimously refused to comply. But their refusal, together with the controversy surrounding the related trial over the constitutionality of the board’s actions, Kitzmiller v.

Dover, intrigued two parents a hundred buy flagyl usa miles to the northwest, in State College, Pa. Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer were not just any concerned parents, though. They were political scientists at Penn State with a particular interest in education policy.

What—they wondered—are buy flagyl usa high school biology teachers teaching about evolution, and what factors influence their teaching practices?. To satisfy their curiosity, Berkman and Plutzer conducted the first modern national survey of high school biology teachers in 2007. The results were dire.

Only a slight majority, 51 percent, reported that they emphasized the broad scientific buy flagyl usa consensus on evolution while not giving any credence to creationism, as if to suggest no progress in the 67 years since the less rigorous survey of 1939–1940. That’s why the results of the 2019 survey—a collaboration between Plutzer and the NCSE—are so encouraging. Between 2007 and 2019, there definitely was progress.

From 51 percent of high buy flagyl usa school biology teachers reporting emphasizing evolution and not creationism in 2007 to 67 percent in 2019. It was matched by a drop from 23 to 12 percent of teachers who offer mixed messages by endorsing both evolution and creationism as a valid scientific alternative to evolution, from 18 to 15 percent of teachers who endorse neither evolution nor creationism, and from 8.6 to 5.6 percent of teachers who endorse creationism while not endorsing evolution. Credit.

National Center for Science Education What accounts for buy flagyl usa the improvement?. Did intelligent design’s crushing http://www.ec-itterswiller.ac-strasbourg.fr/le-sapin-des-petites-betes/ defeat in the Kitzmiller trial make the difference?. Probably not buy flagyl usa.

Science teachers are guided not by case law but by state science standards, which specify what students in the state’s public schools are expected to learn. Standards thus influence the content of textbooks, statewide testing, and coursework for pre-service and in-service teachers. Importantly, they also provide a shield for teachers facing misguided community pressure over socially buy flagyl usa contentious topics like evolution.

The results of the 2019 survey suggest that a concerted effort to improve state science standards helped to improve evolution education. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), which debuted in 2013, include “Biological Evolution. Unity and Diversity” as a buy flagyl usa disciplinary core idea of the life sciences at the middle and high school levels.

By now, 20 states (plus the District of Columbia) have adopted the NGSS, and a further 24 states have adopted standards based on the same evolution-friendly framework on which the NGSS are based. Were states that adopted the NGSS especially hospitable to the teaching of evolution?. Not buy flagyl usa really.

In 2007, their teachers were less likely to endorse evolution and not creationism than the national average. By 2019, they were more likely. While a variety of explanations are possible, teachers in NGSS states reported having taken more pre-service and in-service coursework in evolution than their colleagues elsewhere, buy flagyl usa suggesting that the increased expectations impelled both novice and veteran teachers to upgrade their content knowledge of evolution.

Despite the encouraging trend over a mere dozen years, there is still reason for concern. After all, more than one in six high buy flagyl usa school biology teachers, 17.6 percent, are still presenting creationism as a scientifically credible alternative to evolution. And almost as many high school biology teachers, 15 percent, are still failing to emphasize the broad scientific consensus on evolution, despite its general prevalence in state science standards and despite encouragement from professional organizations.

D’oh!. With 13,500-odd local school districts having primary responsibility for curriculum buy flagyl usa and instruction, changes to science education are inevitably going to be slow, scattered and incremental. Still, with the aid of uncounted scientists, educators, policymakers, administrators and concerned citizens in general (and perhaps even a certain episode of The Simpsons), clear and convincing improvements for evolution education were demonstrably attained in just a dozen years.

It is a victory worth not only celebrating—woo-hoo!. €”but also enlarging upon.ARGENTINA The earliest dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs, paleontologists say buy flagyl usa. A new chemical analysis of a more than 200-million-year-old fossilized egg from Patagonia—and a clutch of more recent eggs from Mongolia, found in the Gobi Desert—revealed a thin film matching the characteristics of modern soft-shelled eggs.

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The “mega-flash,” which extended for more than 700 kilometers in southern Brazil in 2018, was detected by buy flagyl usa a new advanced weather satellite in geostationary orbit. ISRAEL Researchers sequenced DNA samples from the Dead Sea Scrolls, identifying fragments made from sheep skin and others made from cow hide. The technique could help match fragments together and unravel the artifacts' geographic origins.

INDONESIA Scientists identified an elusive buy flagyl usa nose-horned dragon lizard in the forests of North Sumatra. Despite appearing in the mythology of the indigenous Bataks, the visually striking species had been spotted by scientists only once before—almost 130 years ago. AUSTRALIA Submarine drones uncovered an extensive system of underwater “rivers” of dense, salty water along Australia's continental shelf.

These flows carry organic matter from the coast into the deep ocean, and their volume varies seasonally, peaking in winter.The items below are highlights from the free newsletter, buy flagyl usa “Smart, useful, science stuff about buy antibiotics.” To receive newsletter issues daily in your inbox, sign-up here.. Please consider a monthly contribution to support this newsletter. At Nature, Nicky Phillips, David Cyranoski and Smriti Mallapaty covered the announcement that a collaboration between researchers at AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is pausing Phase 3 treatment-candidate experiments due to a “suspected adverse event” in a study participant in the UK (9/9/20).

The collaboration’s Phase 3 studies buy flagyl usa are being paused in the U.S., Brazil, South Africa and the UK, Nature reports. €œThe news highlights the importance of waiting for the results of large, properly designed trials [experiments] to assess safety before approving a treatment for widespread use,” the story states. Investigators will start by trying to find out if the participant received the treatment candidate or a placebo, the story states.

And then if it was the treatment, they will assess whether the participant’s reaction is buy flagyl usa related or unrelated to receiving it. €œI have every confidence that this group [of investigators] will very quickly assess this adverse event and make the results of that investigation known,” said a McGill University bioethicist quoted in the story. Presumably in response to reports of political pushing for approvals this fall, the chief executive officers (CEOs) of 9 pharmaceutical companies released a pledge (dated 9/8/20) to “uphold the integrity of the scientific process as they work towards potential global regulatory filings and approvals of the first buy antibiotics treatments.” The CEOs — including those for AstraZeneca, BioNTech, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson buy flagyl usa &.

Johnson, Merck, Moderna, and Pfizer — assert they will “only submit for approval or emergency use authorization after demonstrating safety and efficacy through a Phase 3 clinical study that is designed and conducted to meet requirements of expert regulatory authorities such as [the U.S. Food and Drug Administration].” In other words, they don’t plan to cut any corners in their research nor to yield to political pressure. For more contextualized commentary on what Ed Silverman describes as a “highly unusual turn of buy flagyl usa events," see his column at STAT (9/7/20).

Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has quickly taken measures to block any political influence over ongoing research to develop treatments to protect us from antibiotics, report Anna Edney, Drew Armstrong, and Robert Langreth for Bloomberg (9/8/20). One measure reportedly includes the buy flagyl usa FDA “sticking by" June guidance that the agency will only consider for approval treatment candidates that are at least 50% effective.

Lower down in the story, the reporters write, “There is no guarantee the treatments furthest along in development will be the most effective, or be safe.” And it could take “months more” for Phase 3 findings to be conclusive, the story suggests. Still, the story ends with estimates by drug makers for how soon they might complete their Phase 3 studies (efficacy and safety experiments in thousands of study subjects) of antibiotics treatment candidates. Moderna reportedly buy flagyl usa says as soon as Thanksgiving, and Pfizer reportedly has been saying next month.

I remain reasonably skeptical. On Twitter, I came across a searchable web site called “Dear flagyl,” which bills itself as an “interdisciplinary all-female team of researchers and clinicians buy flagyl usa with expertise including nursing, mental health, demography, health policy/economics, and epidemiology.” Posts date back to July but the site appears to have officially launched 9/10/20. Their mission is to “educate and empower individuals to successfully navigate the buy antibiotics information overwhelm.” About two-thirds of the way down the home page, there’s a “submit a question” link.

And below that, previous posts are indexed by topic and dates. The risk buy flagyl usa of catching antibiotics on an airplane is “relatively low” if travelers are screened for sickness, wear masks, and are spaced out among seats, according to experts interviewed by Noah Y. Kim for Kaiser Health News (9/10/20).

The air exchange rate and use of HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filters on planes also significantly reduce the risk of catching the flagyl from travelers who are several rows away, according to the story. There is still a risk from an infected person seated nearby, the story buy flagyl usa states. And air filtration alone is insufficient to prevent transmission even when travelers are distanced in the plane, Kim writes.

Delta, Hawaiian, Southwest and JetBlue currently keep middle seats open, the story states. Security checks and waiting at gates also pose some buy flagyl usa transmission risk. The U.S.

Centers for Disease Control has not confirmed any antibiotics transmission aboard a U.S. Flight, an airline industry source says in the story, but that might reflect the difficulty of determining where buy flagyl usa people in the U.S. Contract the flagyl, Kim writes.

€œEven though flying is a relatively low-risk activity,” the story states, “traveling should still be avoided unless absolutely necessary.” An undated, recently published buy flagyl usa ESPN interactive, bylined by Kyle Bonagura, illustrates its analysis and mapping of anonymized cellphone tracking data for three 2019 U.S. College football games. The maps provide a sense of where fans travel to and disperse to after games and thus the regional concentration of potential antibiotics (and other infectious disease) spread resulting from the mixing of people before, during and after big match-ups.

The piece includes updates on some of the football conferences’ plans and protocols for buy flagyl usa the 2020 season. The Big Ten and Pac-12 have postponed their seasons, whereas the SEC (Southeastern Conference) seems to be allowing each school to set its own attendance guidelines. I can’t pretend to follow NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) football designations but some or all of the NCAA teams drew “more than 47.5 million" attendees last season, the piece states.

€œEven with fewer teams buy flagyl usa in action and limited-capacity crowds, the prospect that college football could play a role in spreading the antibiotics is too obvious to ignore,” the story states. Thanks to a reader for alerting me to this piece. Check out “To build emotional strength, expand your brain,” by Kerry Hannon at The New York Times (9/2/20).

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