Healthy mom, healthy baby. The concept sounds simple enough, but a recent Northwestern Medicine study found the level of health literacy—how someone obtains, uses and understands health information—among pregnant people isn’t where it needs to be, and it’s having a…
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Researchers unlock TB vaccine puzzle in findings that could save millions of newborns
An international research team has identified the mechanism behind one of science’s most enduring mysteries: what makes the 100-year-old tuberculosis (TB) vaccine so effective at preventing newborn deaths from diseases other than TB? The ability of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)—one of…
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