Doping is one issue that has spread out its ugly fangs into almost every sport. Doping, as must be known to everybody, is much more common among the athletes. Time and again doping or the use of prohibited drugs has ruined sportsmen and thwarted all their hard earned name, fame, fortune, and respect in matter [...]
February 7th, 2010
Is There Any Nicotine In Your Blood?
When you inhale nicotine, it enters your blood stream and your body metabolizes it into continine. Therefore, checking for continine is a way to determine if you are a smoker. Nicotine tests apply immunoassay technology to detect continine in blood, hair, urine, and saliva. All nicotine tests detect the presence of continine at a cut-off [...]
February 4th, 2010
Important Factors That Influence Results of Blood Tests
Each blood collection situation is unique. A competent phlebotomist must not only possess the technical skills necessary to collect a quality specimen, but must also understand the numerous patient variables, complications, and procedural errors that can affect the integrity of the specimen or the health and safety of the patient to avoid or reduce any [...]
February 1st, 2010
Alzheimer’s Disease – a Surprising Way to Prevent & Provide Relief to Sufferers
There is a natural compound that is cheap, common and could provide significant heath benefits for a number of diseases including Alzheimer’s disease and a number of other diseases of the brain. So what is this compound?Surprisingly it’s nicotine. Although Nicotine has suffered from an image problem due to its association with smoking, the fact [...]
January 31st, 2010
Selection Criteria for Egg Donors
To become an egg donor, women must meet certain requirements. The standards for donating eggs are set by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). Clinics and agencies that deal with egg donation services must follow their standards to become licensed and most reputable physicians and fertility clinics follow their guidelines. The FDA may also [...]
January 30th, 2010
Military Drug Testing
Drug testing in the armed forces in all types of the wings (Army, Navy and Airforce) is a must for each and every personal as the military has a zero-tolerance policy for illegal drug use. The military services conduct several types of no-notice urinalysis drug testing. Positive results on most of these tests can be [...]
January 30th, 2010
Comparison Of Urine And Saliva Drug Tests
The major difference between different types of drug tests is the collection of specimen. But the advantages and disadvantages of these distinct drug tests vary in terms of many issues like invasiveness in specimen collection, risk of tampering the specimen, cost of drug test, time taken to produce results, accuracy of the results, etc. Of [...]
January 26th, 2010
Know How Nicotine Test Is Conducted
Nicotine test gives the levels of nicotine addiction or abuse in a person. The drug Nicotine is one of the regularly abused and commercially available drugs in the society. Apart from tobacco smoking, nicotine is also available in forms of nicotine gum, transdermal patches, and nasal sprays. Nicotine abuse results in increased risk of lung [...]
January 25th, 2010
Is it Safe to Use Chantix?-Quit Smoking with this new Drug may be Risky
Are you thinking about quitting smoking using Chantix? Quit smoking with this new pill? Chantix is one of the newest quit smoking drugs available but is Chantix safe? It seems everywhere you look these days you see an advertisement for Chantix. Every time you turn on the television there is another commercial for Chantix. The one [...]
