Category: 6. Health

Randomized clinical trials remain the gold standard for establishing a medication’s effects, producing the evidence by which most drugs and interventions in the U.S. are approved.

But these studies typically require large numbers of…

Mtb has co-evolved with humans for millennia, with some estimates suggesting up to 70,000 years (Brites and Gagneux, 2015), though other analyses suggest the most recent common ancestor was ~6000 years before present (Bos et al., 2014; Kay…

Two wild animals have tested positive for rabies in Guilford County.

Health officials say a raccoon found on Spencer-Dixon Road in Greensboro and a skunk on Brotherstwo Road in Colfax were confirmed…

Background

Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a clustering of interrelated cardiometabolic risk factors, including abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia (elevated triglycerides and low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol), hypertension, and impaired…

Two wild animals have tested positive for rabies in Guilford County.

Health officials say a raccoon found on Spencer-Dixon Road in Greensboro and a skunk on Brotherstwo Road in Colfax were confirmed…

Steve Brown, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CureWise (curewise.com), an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven patient advocacy app, describes his year-long quest to understand a series of symptoms that ultimately led to a…

For the first time, the County’s public health lab today began routine in-house wastewater testing, with the results available on an online public dashboard. 

Routine wastewater testing gives public…