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America`s Painkiller Epidemic and What You Can Do
A new study conducted by the National Safety Council (NSC), along with Indiana’s attorney general has found that 80% of Indiana employers have been impacted by prescription drug misuse and abuse by employees. 80% is a substantial figure, causing some to refer to this trend as a painkiller epidemic. This figure is not unique to Indiana, the NSC notes that the results would likely be ...
By SafetyNow
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Alberta Sees an Alarming Rise in Suicide Rates Following Harsh Oilpatch Layoffs
Following rising rates of layoffs in Alberta’s oil and gas industry in response to low oil prices, suicide rates in that province have increased by an alarming 30 percent this year. There were 327 suicides recorded between January and June 2015 and it is predicted that number could swell to 654 cases by year’s end. According to the Centre for Suicide Prevention, Alberta sees ...
By SafetyNow
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Eight Excipients for Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems Materials
Transdermal drug delivery systems have gained considerable importance in the pharmaceutical industry due to their convenience, effectiveness, and ease of use. These systems rely on various excipients, which are inactive substances that aid in the delivery and absorption of active drug compounds through the skin. In this article, we will discuss eight important excipients commonly used in ...
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Take Control of your Health this Movember
You may have heard of Movember, the month when men grow their facial hair in solidarity with men’s health issues, like testicular and prostate cancer. The trend has taken hold across the world and even generated its own spinoffs, like “No-Shave November.” Movember started in Australia as a grassroots movement and began to become widespread in the early 2000s. Since then, ...
By Evidation
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How to Take Care of your Mental Health After a Spinal Cord Injury
An injury to your spinal cord changes your life dramatically. Paralysis in both arms and legs forces you to come to terms with your body that no longer functions like it used to. You’ll have to rethink how you go about those daily activities that’s easily taken for granted - how you work, eating dinner, using the bathroom and using technological devices like the phone, tablet or ...
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Make Mental Health a Priority
There are nearly one billion people worldwide who suffer from mental disorders. There is a stigma surrounding mental health making it difficult to speak up and seek help. Covid 19 has been a huge impact on people's mental health all around the world. Within the first year of Covid-19, there has been a 25% increase in anxiety and depression worldwide. Not being able to leave the house to ...
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Explosive Growth in Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Production
Overview On January 31, 2020, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) declared a public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Shortly thereafter, hand sanitizer began to disappear from U.S. retailers’ shelves, as anxious consumers (and, unfortunately, opportunistic hoarders and resellers as well) swept up all available stock. In the ensuing months, ...
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How to treat Depression without medication: What the Science says
Is it possible to treat depression without medication or antidepressants? There is a simple answer to this question: Yes. Yes, it is. Most people don’t know that you can treat depression at home, medication-free. If they do, most people don’t know how. The fact is, you don’t need pills to reduce depressive symptoms or even to recover from depression. By making a few lifestyle ...
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Characterisation and controlled drug release from a novel two-phase hydrogel system
In this work, a two-phase hydrogel system was prepared by physically imbedding a xerogel in the core of a cryogel which was freeze thawed. The cryogels were prepared with poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and poly (acrylic acid) (PAA) while the xerogels were prepared by UV polymerisation of 1-vinyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NVP), acrylic acid (AA) and various percentages of ibuprofen sodium salt. Mechanical and ...
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Understanding Pediatric Cardiomyopathy: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Options
Up to 5,000 American infants and children are diagnosed with pediatric cardiomyopathy each year. Learn more about this rare but potentially serious condition. Cardiomyopathy, which is a general term for diseases of the heart muscle, is relatively rare in children, affecting only about 12 out of every 1 million Americans under the age of 18. Among the approximately 1,000 to 5,000 new cases ...
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Basic Information and Application of Alcohol Dehydrogenase
Alcohol dehydrogenase is abundant in human and animal liver, plant and microbial cells. It is a zinc-containing metalloenzyme with broad substrate specificity. Alcohol dehydrogenase can use nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) as a coenzyme to catalyze the reversible reaction between primary alcohols and aldehydes: CH3CH2OH+ NAD+→ CH3CHO +NADH+ H+. In humans and mammals, alcohol ...
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HBOT for Complementary Therapy
If you’re considering HBOT, it’s important to understand the benefits and risks this therapy entails. The treatment should be discussed with a certified healthcare professional to develop a plan of action based on scientific evidence and tailored to your exact condition. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be used as complementary therapy to address several medical problems. The theory ...
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Spatial profiling of chromatin accessibility in mouse and human tissues
Abstract Cellular function in tissue is dependent on the local environment, requiring new methods for spatial mapping of biomolecules and cells in the tissue context1. The emergence of spatial transcriptomics has enabled genome-scale gene expression mapping2,3,4,5, but the ability to capture spatial epigenetic information of tissue at the cellular level and genome scale is lacking. Here we ...
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