Chemical compounds in foods can inhibit key COVID-19 enzyme, study finds
Photo Cred: Pixabay/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Chemical compounds in foods or beverages like green tea, muscadine grapes, and dark chocolate can bind to and block the function of a particular...
Read MoreEarly life risk factors predict higher obesity, cardiometabolic disease risk
Photo Cred: Kristina Paukshtite/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Early life risk factors in the first 1,000 days cumulatively predict higher obesity and cardiometabolic risk in early adolescence, according to new research...
Read MoreCDC issues new guidance on quarantine timeframes
Photo Cred: Alexandre Chambon/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Wednesday new quarantine guidelines for people exposed to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)....
Read MoreSafe ultraviolet light potential to sterilize high-risk COVID-19 environments
By Katherine Shagoury Computational modelling has shown that low dose far-ultraviolet C (UVC) lighting can be used to disinfect in-room air, increasing disinfection rates by 50 to 85 percent compared...
Read MoreStudy suggests high-protein diet may help maintain healthy weight
Photo Cred: Karolina Grabowska/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury A high-protein, total replacement diet might offer a metabolic advantage compared to a diet consisting of the same number of calories, but with...
Read MoreFDA approves new high-performance antibody test
Photo Cred: Polina Tankilevitch/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued emergency use authorization of a semi-quantitative antibody testing kit for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that...
Read MoreVitamin D supplements may reduce risk of developing advanced cancer, study finds
Photo Cred: Ready Made/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury In a secondary analysis of the Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial (VITAL), a team led by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital found...
Read MoreModerna filing today for FDA emergency authorization
Photo Cred: Nataliya Vaitkevich/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Biotechnology company, Moderna, announced today it would be applying for emergency use authorization with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its...
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