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Pursuing Graduate Work While Chronically Ill

February 22, 2022

Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, over 350 million people have been infected [1]. Early on, it was recognized that COVID symptoms, outside the most extreme of cases, typically lasted two weeks. However, some who suffered a non-hospitalization-worthy or “mild” case of COVID found themselves plagued with symptoms spanning beyond that period. Neurological symptoms […]

Rebekah Mikeasky ⋅ A Day in the Life Academia, chronic conditions, chronic illness, covid-19, graduate work ⋅

Johns Hopkins Scientists Find Link Between High Blood Sugar, Diabetes

July 14, 2015

Chronic high blood sugar and diabetes are typically considered synonymous, but why is that the case? How is sugar, which isn’t toxic, related to a disease that affects over 29 million Americans and stands as the seventh leading cause of death in the United States? These questions have stumped us for decades, but now a […]

Shannen Cravens ⋅ Perspectives in Research chronic conditions, diabetes, high blood pressure, the National Academy of Sciences ⋅

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