A major goal for postsecondary teachers with a doctoral degree is attaining a tenureâa guarantee that a professor cannot be fired without just cause. It can take up to 7 years of moving up the ranks in tenure-track positions. The ranks are assistant professor, associate professor, and professor.
Zontivity, known generically as vorapaxar, is the first of a new class of drugs called protease-activated receptor-1 antagonists. The drugs work by preventing blood platelets from clumping together to form a blood clot. Internal bleeding is a common side effect of blood thinning drugs, and Zontivity will carry a boxed warning that it can cause potentially deadly bleeding side effects.
High sensitivity and specificity of the C6-peptide ELISA on cerebrospinal fluid in Lyme neuroborreliosis patients. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2011 Jan 17. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03459.x. [Epub ahead of print] Golightly MG, Thomas JA, Viciana AL.n their recent study these researchers found that indirect immunofluorescence assay (IIFA) and immunoblot (Western blot) tests produced positive results for both IgG and IgM antibodies but the ELISA tests only returned positive or borderline results in 53.3% of the patients with suspected Lyme disease.