Magee-Women's Research Institute showed off its new $31 million expansion in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The building doubles the capacity of the nation's first research facility dedicated exclusively to diseases and disorders that affect women and infants.
All the efforts come too late for a woman who 11 years ago developed Group B strep infection. Despite doing all the right things, including antibiotics, it was transmitted to her son at birth. Normally everything is fine but there is always that small percentage of people where everything isn't fine.
Her son spent 10 days in the intensive care unit, suffered seizures, and brain damage. He survived and, with lots of work, is doing fine. If a simple vaccine, something that could be developed could prevent those kinds of things, it would be such a gift.
Magee-Women's Research Institute is working on such a vaccine to help all women.
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