Personalized meds may be the future of healthcare
When a person feels ill, his or her doctor may assess any symptoms and then prescribe a particular medication to treat or alleviate those symptoms. Doctors prescribe medications hoping to treat sickness, but sometimes prescriptions fall short, leaving some to wonder if prescription medications could be customized more for individual needs? The science is already here. Making specialized drugs is not a new concept. Prior to the rise of...
CORONAVIRUS BRIEFS
COMPILED BY BOBBY BRYANT NEW ORDER ON CROWDS: S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster has issued an executive order allowing law-enforcement officers to disperse crowds of three or more if deemed “a threat to public health.” These types of public parties, “boisterous” gatherings, “spontaneous” gatherings in parking lots, etc., would be misdemeanors. McMaster said in a statement: “Law enforcement has the ability to disperse groups of people...
Woodard Farms to host special event for diners
Woodard Farms has been chosen to host the world-renowned culinary experience “Outstanding in the Field” at their farm in Darlington. The event will take place Oct. 8 at their farm at 2128 Woodard Farm Road. “Outstanding in the Field” is an international organization that celebrates regional cuisines via open-air “pop-up” dinners in the places where ingredients for the menu are sourced. This immersive dining experience aims to...
Backyard Stargazer: Venus takes center stage in April
By Francis Parnell Just before dawn on the 1st, catch a trio of planets in the southeastern sky. Red Mars and yellowish Saturn are 1 degree apart with bright Jupiter 6 degrees upper right of the pair. At sunset on the 3rd, a celestial event that happens in April every eight years takes place; there’s an extra star in the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters) the famous open star cluster in Taurus, the Bull. Dazzling Venus is very close...
Caution and caustic cleaning products go hand-in-hand
Keeping a home clean is no small task. All sorts of stains appear in homes every day, some harder to clean than others. And for each individual spill or accident that can dirty up a home, there seems to be a cleaning product tailor-made to address it. That can make choosing the right cleaning product more complicated than simply choosing the least expensive option. Cleaning products are not one and the same, and various consumer...
Schools closed 4 more weeks
By Bobby Bryant Editor editor@newsandpress.net It will be at least the end of April before Darlington County public schools open again. As the global coronavirus threat grows, S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster decided last week to extend his closure of all S.C. public schools past McMaster’s original end date of March 31. As the Darlington County School District faces another month of conducting classes by computer and organizing giveaways of...