The Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP), a community of clinicians, educators, consultants, researchers, industry representatives, and compliance directors who advocate for safe and infection-free delivery of oral…
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to encourage the development of new tests for SARS-CoV-2 in the fight to contain COVID-19. Thus far, the FDA has issued emergency use authorizations for 221 tests of which 179…
Officials from China’s National Health Commission (NHC) announced that it has been vaccinating essential workers—including border control agents and healthcare providers—against infection with the novel coronavirus since July 22. Developed…
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center have found that tipifarnib showed promise in treating HNSCC tumors with mutations in the HRAS gene.
The following clinical model was developed in response to the local and global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on orthodontic residency education. Specifically, this model was created in anticipation of a significant interruption in the…
Prior to COVID-19, flu shots were most often administered in October to ensure the vaccination would last throughout flu season. In the midst of a global pandemic, this recommendation has changed, and public health experts now suggest…
The global pandemic has resulted in a team of researchers at the University of Kentucky’s College of Dentistry finding creative ways to continue an outreach and care program focused on raising public awareness of the symptoms of oral…
After an intense review of initial COVID-19 case reports from Wuhan, China, a group of scientists, who used the renewal theory in probability to address recall bias, suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 incubation period is more like 7.76 days, not…