Mercy Eyo landed a foreign postgraduate scholarship in July 2019, she had just lost her father. A year earlier, her mother had passed away. She was elated about the prospect of starting a master's degree in global health care management at Coventry University, in the United Kingdom, with a scholarship from a Nigerian government agency. "I was super excited ... I felt it was a consolation that would change my life forever," Eyo said. "It was that one little time I had hope in the Nigerian dream," she told CNN, "because I wanted to return home afterward to offer what…

We all want to be persuasive. We want to influence, and we want our voices to be heard. For some people, that means speaking up. Telling people what to do. But the people who seem to gain the most respect are the ones who are able to challenge the status quo without ruffling feathers. I’ve asked many executives over the years how they do that, and the answer is the same every time: Don’t make statements, ask questions. Their advice is sound. Arguing a point only raises tensions, putting up barriers to collaboration. Challenging individuals puts them on the defensive…

Signs of high blood sugar can be easy to miss. You might think it would be obvious if you had high blood sugar, but it’s actually entirely possible for signs of high blood sugar to fly under the radar. There are a lot of people who don’t realize they have high blood sugar, so if this is the case for you, you certainly aren’t alone. As of 2018, more than 34 million people in the U.S. are living with diabetes, the condition that occurs when your blood sugar is too high, either as a result of insulin resistance (in the…

Children typically are “superspreaders” of respiratory germs, which makes the fact that they don’t seem to be major transmitters of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 puzzling. They’re relatively absent among hospitalized patients, which initially was thought to be because they’re less likely to become seriously ill once infected. Later studies indicate that those of primary school age, at least, may be less likely to catch the virus in the first place. With schools and universities in the Northern Hemisphere considering reopening, scientists and public health authorities are trying to determine the role of young people in spreading the pathogen and…