by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 3, 2020 | Health News
“How can you justify a substandard or lesser review for something that would be injected in tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of Americans?” Dr. Peter Hotez, a professor and the dean of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, said in...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Aug 30, 2020 | Health News
The US Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to another antigen test this week, bringing the total to four. Compared to the most commonly used type of coronavirus test in the country — molecular diagnostic tests, also called PCR tests...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Aug 6, 2020 | Health News
No, it’s not Covid-19 — science assures us the risk of catching the novel coronavirus that way is miniscule. The report, entitled “Packaged in Pollution: Are food chains using PFAS in packaging?,” was released Thursday. Testing by the groups...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Aug 5, 2020 | Health News
Reproductive Cloning is the process of making a full living copy of an organism. Reproductive cloning of animals transplants nuclei from body cells into eggs that have had their nucleus removed. That egg is then stimulated to divide using an electrical charge and is...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jun 21, 2020 | Health News
Opioids are drugs formulated to replicate the pain-educing properties of opium. Prescription painkillers like morphine, oxycodone and hydrocodone are opioids. Illegal drugs like heroin and illicitly made fentanyl are also opioids. The word “opioid” is...
