DISPENSARY CORNER 14 April 16
April 14, 2016
HAIL the salary gender gap.
At least women in Concord, New
England did, for one day.
The Works Bakery Cafe bakery
chain in New Hampshire offered a
discount on purchases to women
only at a rate of 21% to illustrate
the salary gender gap that exists,
reports Yahoo News.
The promotion was in
recognition of Equal Pay Day,
a national symbolic event
emphasising how much longer it
takes a woman to earn as much
as a man.
Chain ceo Richard French said the
Stand with Women campaign asked
them to take part in the event.
He said his company employs a
lot of women, and they are paid
the same as men.
SUPERHEROS really do exist - at
least when it comes to special
DNA which can be found in some
extremely healthy people.
That’s the conclusion of a study
pubished in the journal Nature
Biotechnology which found some
people are born with a genetic
makeup which “cancels out”
diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
The researchers from the Icahn
School of Medicine at New York’s
Mount Sinai Hospital looked at
DNA databases covering almost
600,000 people and found 13
who should have developed
various debilitating diseases - but
apparently didn’t thanks to DNA
mutations.
Lead researcher Professor
Stephen Friend said the findings
could be a starting point to
searching for genome changes
which could similarly protect
others against the conditions.
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