Cornell's new medical college is the latest of several ambitious projects initiated by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development, a charitable foundation established in 1995 by Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Qatar's Emir and Head of State. During the past six years, the foundation has redefined the standards of quality for education in the Gulf region by building prestigious, high-quality primary and secondary schools in Qatar. However, women who are obese before pregnancy do not further increase their already high risk of lactation failure, regardless of their weight gain after conception. One of the hidden costs of welfare reform, both at the federal and state levels, is addressed by a new study at Cornell University. The study also found that unemployed individuals who use alcohol to excess are at greater risk of committing family violence than the employed who abuse alcohol or nondrinkers, with the greatest risk among employed welfare recipients.
Listeria is everywhere.
And because it can be found in so many places, it provides the ideal model for studying the evolution and ecology of bacterial pathogens. Cotton clothes carry fungal spores into hospitals Clothing, particularly cotton, worn by both visitors and patients in hospitals are a leading source of transmission of spores of Aspergillus fungus, according to a study by two Cornell University textile experts. The common fungus has long been known to pose a potentially deadly threat of infection in hospital patients with damaged or impaired immune systems. Cotton was found to harbor and disperse the spores of Aspergillus more than other fabrics in the study. Aspergillus is a term that refers to a group of airborne mold fungi that are commonly inhaled in all environments worldwide.