In February 2019, the novel coronavirus was yet undiscovered and unnamed. But on December 30, 2019, samples were collected in Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital from a patient with what the World Health Organization described as “pneumonia of unknown etiology,” and SARS-CoV-2 —...
Tens of millions of American women are impacted by bacterial vaginosis and vulvovaginal candidiasis each year. According to the CDC, bacterial vaginosis affects 21.2 million women (29.2%) between the ages of 15 and 49, making it the most common vaginal infection in...
As John Gordon Harold, MD, MACC, writes in “The Evolution of Personalized Medicine” in Cardiology Magazine, “In a sense, personalized medicine is not entirely new. The identification of the ABO blood group system, in 1901 by Karl Landsteiner at the University of...
US labs are prepared to test for coronavirus There are seven coronaviruses known to infect humans. Named for the crown-tipped spikes on their tennis ball textured surface, coronaviruses can cause mild symptoms such as seen in the common cold or more severe respiratory...
