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The University of South Carolina Sports Medicine Center earned the “Greatest Impact” award from the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) for its efforts in promoting the profession of athletic training during the month of March, National Athletic Training Month. The national award is presented by the NATA PR Council and is the highest award given [...]
IT’S always the big C that occupies most women’s minds. We all worry about the various cancers, like breast and cervical, which can afflict us as we age.
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City’s water experts stand by chloramines
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Scientists and the president-elect of the New England Water Works Association freely acknowledged that resident critics of chloramine, the anti-bacterial agent the city has begun using to prevent a repeat of last summer’s boil water marathon, are correct in noting the additive is hardly perfect.
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Sedona Labs Launches All-New Healthy Pets Supplements With Human Quality Ingredients!
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Sedona Labs, a leading supplement company based in Northern Arizona’s red rock country, announces an all-new probiotic and nutritional supplement line for pets, which is now available in fine natural retailers and pet stores.
July 31 Pet wellness clinic: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 31 at Fairmont Community Center, 525 Barry Ave., Lockport. Just Animal Shelter is hosting the clinic that includes vaccinations for cats and dogs, heartworm tests and discounted heartworm preventative medicine for dogs, FIV tests for cats, as well as microchips for both. Appointments are [...]
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Merck signs non-exclusive license agreement with LabCorp for commercialization of genetic test
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Merck today announced a non-exclusive license agreement with Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings for the commercialization of a genetic test that may help predict the response of patients with Hepatitis C virus infection to peginterferon alpha-based therapy.
Submitted Photo – Paul Pogue and Ben Pogue of Pogue Construction in front of the conference room named for their financial contribution to Collin College. The conference room is at the Central Park Campus Library.
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Calcium transfer impacts on fuel mechanism for normal cell metabolism
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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have described a previously unknown biological mechanism in cells that prevents them from cannibalizing themselves for fuel. The mechanism involves the fuel used by cells under normal conditions and relies on an ongoing transfer of calcium between two cell components via an ion channel. Without this transfer, cells [...]
Physio-Yoga Therapy is a type of rehabilitative or preventative therapy that combines both evidence-based physiotherapy and yoga therapy resulting in a more holistic approach to your treatment experience. To understand what this therapy is and if it is right for you, you first need to understand each discipline.
IT’S always the big C that occupies most women’s minds. We all worry about the various cancers, like breast and cervical, which can afflict us as we age.
For most people vacaton season usually involves long car rides or transportation via airplane. However, not everyone can part with their beloved pets and would rather bring them along.
Held in the palm of the hand, a birth control pill seems tiny,almost insignificant. The impact the little pill has had since itwas approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in1960, however, has been huge.
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AHF bans pharmaceutical sales representatives of Bristol Myers Squibb
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Today AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) announced that it has banned pharmaceutical sales representatives from Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) from calling on AHF’s medical providers and staff in its sixteen U.S. healthcare centers. The decision is based on BMS’ refusal to lower the price of its key AIDS drug Reyataz for cash-strapped AIDS Drug Assistance Programs.
Submitted Photo – Paul Pogue and Ben Pogue of Pogue Construction in front of the conference room named for their financial contribution to Collin College. The conference room is at the Central Park Campus Library.
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Fighting back: New weapons in the war against Clostridium difficile
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Last week I shared a cautionary tale. For almost a year, a longtime friend has battled colitis triggered by a gut-loving, toxin-toting bug named Clostridium difficile.
Personality plays a role
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Africa: World Losing the War on Virulent, Preventable Childhood Diseases
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Vaccines have saved the lives of millions of children around the world, and have the potential to save millions more in the future as newer vaccines are developed and introduced.
Whooping cough is very contagious and can cause serious illness, especially in infants who are too young to be fully vaccinated.
Volvo Powertrain North America; O’Neill Physical Therapy Services; The Laser Vein Center for Excellence; Leadership Washington County; Roxbury Correctional Institution; Jack Gaughen Realtor ERA; Sylvana Institute;
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‘Needle-free’ intervention as natural vaccine against malaria
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A new study proposes that preventative treatment with affordable and safe antibiotics in people living in areas with intense malaria transmission has the potential to act as a ‘needle-free’ natural vaccine against malaria and may likely provide an additional valuable tool for controlling and/or eliminating malaria in resource-poor settings.
