High blood pressure and high cholesterol are two of the most common health issues faced by Americans, with more than 49 million U.S. adults taking medication to treat hypertension and 40 million plus adults on cholesterol lowering statin drugs. A Cardiac Medication...
Selecting the Best Antidepressant and Dose for Your DNA Profile
Antidepressants are one of the most commonly prescribed types of medications in the United States. This class includes drugs like Celexa (citalopram), Lexapro (escitalopram), Prozac (fluoxetine), & Zoloft (sertaline). Modern antidepressants like these (selective...
Omicron New Covid Variant Facts: Study Says More Contagious Than Delta
Update on Omicron SARS-CoV-2 Virus Variant Study Findings A new study out of South Africa published online on December 7th offered a first look at how well people immunized with Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine might fare against the new Covid variant, Omicron. After...
Test To See if You Had COVID
A Spike COVID Antibody Test can detect a past COVID-19 infection in a non-vaccinated individual. But if your vaccinated, you'll need a Nucleocapsid COVID Antibody Test to see if you already had COVID. COVID-19 is a viral disease that has affected the lives of billions...
How Long Do COVID Antibodies Last
Learn how long COVID Antibodies last from a vaccine or infection and how to detect if you still have antibodies.
Natural Immunity for the Win! At-Home COVID Antibody Test Gets FDA EUA
March 5, 2022 — Symbiotica, Inc. received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Self-Collected COVID-19 Antibody Test Kit System, the first antibody test authorized for use with a simple home collected dried blood spot...
Free Antiviral Pills for COVID-19 Positive People, President Biden Says
March 2, 2022 — The United States government is apparently launching a program dubbed ‘test to treat’, a plan aiming to provide free antiviral pills at pharmacies for people who test positive for COVID-19, according to President Biden's remarks during his State of the...
Younger Males Should Wait Longer Between COVID-19 Vaccines Over Myocarditis Risk, CDC Advises
February 28, 2022 — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its vaccine recommendations on February 22 to say younger males age 12 to 39 should consider waiting longer between doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines to...
Majority of Healthy Americans Can Ditch Masks, per New CDC Guidelines
February 27, 2022 — In response to the growing consensus that the Omicron coronavirus variant is more transmissible but causes less severe disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Friday a new framework for measuring community Covid-19...