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On Friday evening, Mets organization’s senior director of media relations Shannon Forde passed away, following a long battle with breast cancer.

The 44-year-old Forde has worked for over 20 years in the Mets organization. In the tenure, she turned into a pioneer for women in baseball’s public relations field.

Many colleagues of the dead came forward sharing the type of woman Forde was. Mets Chief Operating Officer Jeff Wilpon was among them, who described her and talked about how important she was at Citi Field.

America is doing a superb job of preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), but still lacks in some areas, mainly in battle against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The latest Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has suggested healthcare workers to use mixture of infection control recommendations for protecting the patients in a better way from such infections.

CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, said, “New data show that far too many patients are getting infected with dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria in healthcare settings. Doctors and healthcare facilities have the power to protect patients – no one should get sick while trying to get well”.

In a recent study, researchers have discovered that the drug Truvada, the sole drug approved for prevention of HIV infection, is needed in different levels in men and women to prevent the infection effectively.

Published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, the study researchers at North Carolina University have found that men could save themselves with just two doses a week, whereas women needs a dose everyday to stay protected.

The US Food and Drug Administration approved the drug in 2012 for regular use by people highly vulnerable to infection. The drug even notably decreased the number of fresh infections in areas it was made readily available.

Two new researches were undertaken to gain better insight into how kids can deal with foods that are typically responsible for causing allergies. Both the studies have suggested that giving peanuts and other foods responsible for allergies are helpful in protecting them against allergies rather than causing problems. Offering small portion develops resistance against allergic reactions. One of the studies was a follow-up to a milestone research that was published last year.

Brazilian health authority was confident that mosquito-borne Zika virus is causing microcephaly, but many International health experts said there could be other reasons for the condition in which a baby takes birth with a small head and an underdeveloped brain.

Now, new studies from two continents have suggested a link between microcephaly and Zika. They have revealed how the pathogen affects brain development of a baby and triggers complications during pregnancy.

The first study was conducted by researchers from the United States who claimed to identify how the virus leads to microcephaly, which has affected hundreds of babies in Brazil during the last few months.

Increasing global warming and food limitation have thrown sea lions of California into chaos. During the last more than four decades, the animal’s population has dropped dramatically. Last year, thousands of sea lion pups stranded along Southern California's coast, flooding rescue centers in the state.

A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science has linked young pups’ chaotic conditions to mother sea lions not getting enough food. Lack of nutrition is behind pups washing ashore, as per the study published Wednesday.

The study also predicted that it is a serious situation for the animal, which is not going to reverse itself any time soon. California sea lions have been suffering from last few decades, but today, the situation has worsened for sea lions.