Share this on WhatsApp Originally published in June 1954 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “After several weeks of confusion about the safety of the new poliomyelitis vaccine, mass tests got underway last month. Walter Winchell had told his radio audience that the vaccine ‘may be a killer’ because one batch had been found with live virus. […]
Share this on WhatsApp Vaccines may soon make their film debut. Led by pharmaceutics expert Maria A. Croyle, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a thin sheet that preserves vaccines and other biological medicines for long periods without refrigeration. This means the carefully cooled vials now used to ship vaccines could […]
Share this on WhatsApp Air conditioning and other cooling systems are widely recognized as integral to protecting people from the sometimes deadly impacts of extreme heat, which are intensifying in step with climate change. Yet according to a study, published yesterday in Nature Sustainability, there remains a “global blind spot” when it comes to handling the already […]