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August 13, 2020Posted: August 13, 2020Read MoreWithout a doubt one of the greatest health problems plaguing Americans to date is obesity. The CDC reports that currently 42.4% of adults in the US are obese with a body mass index (BMI) between 30-40. Among these individuals, 9.2% were reported as having severe obesity with a BMI greater than 40. (1) In addition to proper nutrition and physical activity, scientists are looking into the role...
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August 13, 2020Posted: August 13, 2020Read MoreCBD: How Pet Parents are Leading the Pack -The current landscape for pets and medical cannabis products In America, around 70% of households own a pet. This means that roughly 90.5 million families have welcomed a four legged (or maybe feathered) friend into their homes. (Rainwalk...
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July 17, 2020Posted: July 17, 2020Read More...Listeria hysteria! Outbreaks have been popping up in a variety of foods over the years—however, not all infections are created equal. The severity of L. monocytogenes infection, also known as Listeriosis, is dependent on both the host’s immune system and the virulence of the strain.(1) Immunocompromised populations may experience encephalitis, meningitis, bacteremia, miscarriage, gas
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June 19, 2020Posted: June 19, 2020Read MoreCan it control gluten sensitivity and asthma?
Helicobacter pylori infection is no laughing matter. Sufferers can look forward to such unpleasant symptoms as chronic gastritis, gastric ulcers, and possibly gastric adenocarcinoma. Only discovered in 1982, H. pylori's pervasive presence, particularly in developing...
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June 12, 2020Posted: June 12, 2020Read MoreA study published on May 6th, has produced optimism that vitamin D may help to prevent serious infections of the COVID-19 virus. Researchers from the UK have compiled data on the incidence of COVID-19 infections and correlated it to the blood levels of vitamin D in people from 20 European nations. The results show that as vitamin D serum levels increase, the incidence of infection decreases.(1) ...
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May 16, 2020Posted: May 16, 2020Read MoreOne of the deadliest species known to man is Aedes aegypti, also known as the Yellow Fever mosquito. This species of mosquito is capable of carrying and spreading diseases such as chikungunya, zika, yellow fever, and dengue fever to more than half of the world's population. These diseases are the cause for millions of deaths every year and have increased substantially in the last 30 years.(1)...
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March 30, 2020Posted: March 30, 2020Read MoreThis is the question that many are asking, but unfortunately, there is no easy answer.
First of all, we have to take a look at why the cold and flu viruses seem to dissipate in the summer months. There are four possible reasons why respiratory viruses are more common in the winter and tend to become less of a problem in the summer....
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March 06, 2020Posted: March 06, 2020Read MoreDue to the recent 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we have
been getting many inquiries about what type of swabs, media, and kits
should be used for COVID-19 sample collection prior to testing. Below we
have a short guide on which COPAN products meet the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) Interim... -
February 07, 2020Posted: February 07, 2020Read More
photo courtesy of UCSF Health Candida auris was first described in 2009 and was first reported in the United States in 2016.(1) It is a member of a growing group of yeasts that can cause candidiasis, yeast infections that are normally of little consequence, and treatable through a number of anti-fungal...
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February 05, 2020Posted: February 05, 2020Read MoreCOPAN announces a kit that pairs 3mL of UTM® universal viral transport medium and two FLOQSwabs™: one minitip and one regular flocked swab.
MURRIETA, Calif., Jan. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 30
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January 25, 2020Posted: January 25, 2020Read MoreFor the medical community 2020 has arrived with a sinister start. In the midst of Flu season, a new and far more ominous virus has emerged, gripping the world’s attention. We are of course talking about the recent outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan, China with multinational reports emerging. The virus, a “cousin” of the SARS virus that struck in 2003 that caused nearly 8,100 cases, and resulted in 77...
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January 16, 2020Posted: January 16, 2020Read MoreAntibiotic resistance has been an emerging critical threat that, according to the CDC, results in more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections in the U.S each year, of which 35,000 are fatal (1).
To date, most every antibiotic at our disposal has been discovered in the dirt; these compounds exist as natural products that...
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September 30, 2019Posted: September 30, 2019Read MoreLong before Sir Alexander Fleming's accidental discovery of
Penicillin in 1928, our ancestors were already putting the antimicrobial
effects of metal to use.Metals such as copper and silver were used as vessels by ancient
civilizations to keep their water clean and safe to drink (1). Researchers have
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March 05, 2019Posted: March 05, 2019Read MoreSeeing the doctor about concerns of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) or urinary tract infections (UTIs) can be very uncomfortable for most people...
However, it's something that millions of Americans are compelled to do every year. According to the CDC, nearly 2.3 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis (the most...
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February 28, 2019Posted: February 28, 2019Read More...Glioblastoma tumors
are the most common form of malignant brain tumor and affect
approximately two to three adults per 100,000 each year. Due to the
aggressive nature of glioblastoma, existing treatments are relatively
ineffective and the prognosis for affected patients is quite poor.
According to the National Brain Tumor Society, the five-year survival
rate for those
