The Athens Alabama News Courier reported Sunday on the Alabama Department of Public Health Department’s Final Report on last fall’s Salmonella senftenberg linked to a church fundraiser. The Bean Day Athens-Limestone Foundation ...
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New detection methods could shorten the detection of sepsis from days down to only a few hours. Sepsis is a possibly mortal bacterial infection. It affects neonates and young infants more severely since their immune system is not fully ...
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Ah, those things we put our feet (or wheels) on. Floors do a whole lot for us without asking for much in return, and if you're thinking about replacing or upgrading yours, have you considered the environmental implications of what you ...
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In a study to be presented on Feb. 6 at 3:15 p.m. CST, at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting-, in New Orleans, researchers will report that cervicovaginal (CV) microbiota differs in the late ...
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Consistency is one of the biggest goals when feeding calves. Whatever the liquid feed (milk or milk replacer), the temperature, total solids percentage, and nutrient level should be reasonably consistent from feeding to feeding. Large ...
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At the end of 2013, Consumer Reports made national headlines by reporting that 97 percent of retail chicken breasts were contaminated with some form of gut bacteria. Granted, not all of those bacteria are likely to make consumers sick, but ...
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Omron Electronic Components Europe is serving today's mobile workforce with the launch of a new market driven website that is as easy to use from a smartphone and tablet as from a traditional PC. The new website combines specific content ...
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Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has introduced the AWB7222 power amplifier (PA) optimized for WCDMA, HSPA and LTE small-cell base-station applications. The AWB7222 operates ...
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TUESDAY Feb. 4, 2014, 2014 -- In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the U.S. National Institutes of Health has partnered with 10 drug companies and several nonprofit groups to speed development of biological ways of diagnosing and treating ...
February 3, 2014 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the expanded use of the Dexcom G4 Platinum Continuous Monitoring System for patients with diabetes ages 2 to 17 years. The G4 Platinum System, which monitors blood ...
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In the first month of 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued 11 warning letters to food manufacturers and processors. The first two warning letters of the year were delivered to a seafood processing facility in Hawaii and a ...
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Vishay Intertechnology Inc of Malvern, PA, USA has broadened its optoelectronics portfolio with the release of a 850nm infrared (IR) emitter in a compact 3.85mm by 3.85mm by 2.24mm top-view SMD package. Based on SurfLight surface-emitter ...
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Tests carried out by a council laboratory in West Yorkshire found that over third of 900 food samples were not what they claimed to be or were improperly labeled. Public are buying fake or mislabeled food, including mozzarella that is ...
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Women who are deficient in vitamin D in the first 26 weeks of their pregnancy may be at risk of developing severe preeclampsia, a potentially life-threatening disorder diagnosed by an increase in blood pressure and protein in the urine, ...
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A common surgery for non-melanoma skin cancer, known as Mohs surgery typically achieves excellent results but can be a long process, as the surgeon successively removes the area of concern until the surrounding tissue is free of cancer. To ...
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