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      COVID-19 vaccines are considered the most promising path to curbing the pandemic and are being followed aggressively.  More than 40 candidate vaccines are in human trials as of fall of 2020 and more than 150 are in preclinical trials. As vaccines are applying...

Lab tests are used as medical devices on urine, blood, and other substances or tissues from your patient's body to help diagnose diseases or other medical conditions. Doctors use the information from these tests to identify symptoms or changes in a patient's health....

Diabetes Mellitus is a metabolic disease that induces elevated blood sugar. In order to store or use glucose, the hormone insulin transfers sugar from the blood into cells. With diabetes, the body either does not produce enough insulin or is unable to use the insulin...

A 2019 coronavirus disease prevention vaccine (COVID-19) is perhaps the best chance for ending the pandemic. There is currently no vaccine to prevent COVID-19 virus infection, but researchers are racing to develop one. Coronaviruses are enveloped...

Antibodies are proteins the body produces when an infection occurs. They attach to a virus and help eliminate it. Antibodies can be monoclonal or polyclonal. A monoclonal antibody is an antibody produced by cloning a particular white blood cell. It is...

As many people in the United States are beginning to prepare for fall and winter holiday festivities such as Halloween, Día de los Muertos, Diwali, Thanksgiving, Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's, there is a need to protect...

  Contact tracing follows case investigation and is a tool for detecting, monitoring, and helping people who may have been exposed to an individual with a communicable disease, such as COVID-19. In order to protect public health, health departments also...

The virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Limited information is available about SARS-CoV-2 infection in U.S pregnant women.Cough (more than 50 percent) and shortness of breath...

                      Influenza is an acute respiratory disease that is caused by influenza viruses, usually subtypes of influenza A or B. COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus infection (called SARS-CoV-2).It is understood that COVID-19 and flu viruses...

In the height of technology, with the race to produce a vaccine and in the efforts to protect and make new discoveries, COVID 19 has shaken up our world as we once knew it. The aggravating feeling of getting to our favorite stores, restaurants, or markets doors then...

What is COVID-19? COVID 19 stands for Coronavirus disease 2019 which appeared in late 2019. It is caused by a virus known as “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)”.  How is COVID-19 spread? SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spreads by...