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28-year-old Woman With Opioid Use Disorder Delivers Healthy Baby While in Custody Addressing Forced Detox
https://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Case_Report___28_year_old_Woman_With_Opioid_Use.99425.aspx Comment; I'm all for getting innocent babies the protection that they need from their mothers in the throes of addiction Gray, Jessica,...
F.D.A. Plans to Seek a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/health/fda-menthol-cigarettes-ban.html Comment; I'll believe it when I see it! Banning Menthol Cigarettes is a great idea with a steep, long uphill battle As part of its campaign against flavored e-cigarettes and nicotine addiction,...
The costs of heroin and naloxone: a tragic snapshot of the opioid crisis
https://www.statnews.com/2018/11/08/costs-heroin-naloxone-tragic-snapshot-opioid-crisis/ Comment; What a GREAT solution to the exorbitant cost of Naloxone! By MICHAEL HUFFORD and DONALD S. BURKE Lethally potent street drugs like heroin are increasingly affordable and...
Control of Aerosol Contaminants in Indoor Air: Combining the Particle Concentration Reduction with Microbial Inactivation
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xYRsQUVPDtZxb4pu6hLFZ4ygzUTJSYEU Comment; This paper demonstrates the synergistic effect of using UV/Titanium Dioxide photocatalytic air purification systems with HEPA filtration to remove harmful bacteria, fungi, viruses and...
Efficacy of EcoQuest Radiant Catalytic Ionization Cell
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xXULkg2vZQ3ah7-ypoVtpVLBKUY-TDej Comment; The radiant catalytic activation center performs better than the Breeze AT Ozone Generator at inactivating microbes on commercial stainless steel food-preparation surfaces
Mechanism for Bacterial Inactivation by Positively and Negatively Charged Cluster Ions
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xPcEMD3dG7whfXfqRH318V5CUIXUt7CV Comment; Ion-generating photocatalytic air purification systems create ions that react with volatile airborne chemicals and the surface proteins of cells causing chemical changes and loss of structure...
ERMI/HERTSMI Summary of the Shoemaker Recommendations
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11Xu94002vbzPqRU2KXMdKQV6c8u50sNj Comments; Scott does his usual thorough, easy to read job of reviewing the basics of ERMI vs. HERTSMI2 in a manner that is easy to comprehend (hopefully including those suffering from "mold brain")...
ERMI/HERTSMI Summary of ACTUAL meaning – LOADING vs CONCENTRAT
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11XPXwcvxV0fER3ovj_bNBiGxssFUL0Zc Comment; Scott gives a very clear, coherent, easily understood review of the limitations of the ERMI/HERTSMI2 testing. Despite the limitations, personally I DO believe it provides some useful...
Scott Armour IEP Airduct Cleaning Recommendations in HVAC
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11eaWUKtKpErgT1W9YhIjcbltWLQXAtqC Comment; Scott is very experienced, extremely knowledgeable and may be able to conduct "virtual" inspections of your property (as does Greg Weatherman) with a local remediator on an audio-visual...
Counting The Bugs And Bacteria, You’re ‘Never Home Alone’ (And That’s OK)
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/12/666933600/counting-the-bugs-and-bacteria-youre-never-home-alone-and-thats-ok Comment; Great review of the bugs that are always around and never thought of—not taken for granted necessarily as most of us are totally...
Emerging Mycotoxins: Beyond Traditionally Determined Food Contaminants
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?tab=Cm#inbox?projector=1 Comment; Fungal organisms like all types of life forms have the capacity to evolve, mutate, change to meet the demands placed upon them in order to survive. This paper reviews numerous new toxins that have...
Curcumin Inhibits the Activation of Immunoglobulin E-Mediated Mast Cells and Passive Systemic Anaphylaxis in Mice by Reducing Serum Eicosanoid and Histamine Levels
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3936421/ Comment; We keep learning more and more about the benefits of Curcumin, anti-allergic, IgE interruption, PGD2, 5-lipooxygenase, Leukotriene C4, Cox02, Phospholipase C-gamma-1, phosphorylation of mitogen-activated...
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