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Recent Articles
Social Hygiene: Screening for Social Media Addiction in Adolescent Patients
Ariana Marini
May 21, 2018
You don’t have to look far to see that today’s adolescents love their phones and the social media accounts that go with them. They’re sharing selfies on Instagram, using Snapchat to show what they’re doing right this minute, communicating with their friends on Facebook, tweeting their daily musings, and much more.
Sharing Starts Early
By age 12, 50% of children have social media accounts. The average teenager uses social media for 71 minutes each day; female teens, who report the highest engagement, average 142 minute per day.
“Social media usage resembles a normalized addictive behavior, proportional to overall screen media […]
How did gonorrhea become a drug-resistant superbug?
Scientists show how the gonorrhea bacterium resists last-resort antibiotic ceftriaxone while maintaining a robust growth rate
The bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is resistant to multiple standard antibiotics and now threatens to develop resistance against ceftriaxone, which is on the World Health Organization List of Essential Medicines and is the last effective antibiotic against the organism. UNC School of Medicine researchers have identified mutations to the bacterium Neisseria gonnorrhoeae that enable resistance to ceftriaxone that could lead to the global spread of ceftriaxone-resistant “superbug” strains.
The findings, published in the journal mBio, provide unique insights into the evolution of […]