Author: Zena Younes

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Difficulty of and barriers to gender-affirming care

The meta-analysis report entitled ‘Barriers to Gender – Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Individuals’ gives much needed insight into the issues facing transgender and gender nonconforming individuals, as well as the implications of these barriers. It is common knowledge that the ‘T’ in LGBT+ represents trangender people. Less known is the fact that […]

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Resistance – a documentary about antibiotic resistance

Interaction of MRSA (green bacteria) with a human white cell. The bacteria shown is strain MRSA252, a leading cause of hospital-associated infections in the U.S. and U.K. Credit Rocky Mountain Laboratories/NIAID

“Antibiotics were the only thing we ever had in all of human history that really stopped infectious diseases, and we just took this miraculous thing and just completely squandered it. It just astonishes me that we don’t ask ourselves how is it that we squandered this, and why can’t we stop.” Maryn McKenna. Brought to […]