A fear of needles is a common reason for avoiding vaccines, even among many adults. Now researchers have come up with a rather clever alternative: dental floss. Led by a team from Texas Tech University, the researchers first identified an often overlooked surface in the mouth as an entry point for vaccines: the junctional epithelium (JE), which sits where the …
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Ichiro needles lone writer who left him off Hall of Fame ballot
Ichiro has a Hall of Fame mind and on off the field. The long-time Seattle Mariner didn’t hold back during his Hall of Fame acceptance speech on Sunday, calling out the lone Baseball Writers’ Association voter who failed to include him on his or her ballot, despite his historic career achievements. “Three‑thousand hits or 262 hits in one season are …
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