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Biorepository Safety
What is a Biorepository? A biorepository, or "biobank", is a specialized facility designed to store, archive, and distribute biological samples for research or clinical purposes. Biorepositories house biological samples, such as blood, plasma, ...
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Sterilizing Medical Devices Using Ethylene Oxide
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 48.3 million procedures were performed at hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers in the United States in 2010. Healthcare providers and patient advocates understand that infection ...
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Air Delivery of Super-Cooled COVID-19 Vaccines
There are several potential COVID-19 vaccines that may soon be available for widespread distribution. In particular, the United Kingdom has recently approved Pfizer’s vaccine, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering extending ...
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Don`t Throw Away Your Shot...the Cold Truth About Vaccine Handling and Storage
Overview In modern times, vaccines have been widely used to keep people healthy by protecting them from serious illnesses and diseases. Worldwide, vaccines annually prevent millions of deaths, and their utilization is responsible, in many parts of ...
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Image is Everything: MRI and Helium Safety
MRI Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a diagnostic procedure that uses a combination of a very large magnet, radio waves, and a computer to produce detailed, cross-sectional, and three-dimensional images of organs and structures within the body. ...
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Pharmaceutical Companies Rely on Nitrogen
Pharmaceutical firms research, develop, and manufacture over-the-counter and prescription drugs and medicines. Usage of these drugs includes, but is not limited to, vaccinations, treatment for chronic conditions, and pain management. To protect the ...
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Butane for THC and CBD Extraction Trend Requires Some Simple Steps to Stay Safe
On May 17th, 2020, twelve firefighters were injured after an explosion occurred at a facility where butane is used for cannabis extraction. It is not yet known if butane was the cause of the explosion but, it was reported that, butane canisters ...
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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’ ...
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Cryotherapy - Baby It’s Cold Inside
Cryotherapy Cryotherapy (also known as cold therapy) is broadly defined as the use of very cold temperatures for medical or general wellness purposes. Modern cryotherapy (which comes from the Greek kyro, meaning “cold” and ...
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Freeze-Dried Food…Dogs Eat It Up
Overview As dog owners, we treat our pets as we do our children, taking care that the food we give them is not only filling and nutritious but contains only high-quality ingredients sourced and processed in ways that meet our exacting standards. For ...
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IVF Cryopreservation and Safe Handling Practices
Couples that want to have a baby but have not been able to conceive naturally are drawn to invitro fertilization (IVF) treatments. In an IVF treatment, several eggs are fertilized at once, which creates multiple embryos. While more than one embryo ...
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Crispr and the Editing of Genes: To Help Revolutionize Biomedical Science
Scientists from MIT and Harvard University are placing their faith in a gene editing tool that may revolutionize the treatment of deadly diseases. CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic ...
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The Hidden Dangers and Facts of Cryotherapy: How to Remain Safe and Get Health benefits too
While cryotherapy or frost therapy has been used for millennia, the new cryotherapy center fad that`s become popular in salon culture has come under scrutiny when a 24-year-old woman who worked at a cryohealth center in ...