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DALLAS--( BUSINESS WIRE )--CenterWell Senior Primary Care will open 10 new senior-focused primary care centers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex throughout 2023. This will mark the company's debut in North Texas, giving local seniors access to CenterWell's personalized, care-team approach to healthcare. The first two centers' grand openings are Feb. 1 (CenterWell Camp Bowie West) and Feb. 2 (CenterWell Seminary), both from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. CenterWell Senior Primary Care is one of the fastest-growing senior-focused, value-based care providers in the country. Together with its sister brand Conviva Care Center, CenterWell Senior Primary Care delivers care to seniors in more than 220 centers across 11 states, with plans to open 30-50 new centers per year through 2025. "The Dallas-Fort Worth area continues its rapid growth, and a good portion of that growth is in the senior population," said Sue Lamb, Market Vice President for Dallas-Fort Worth. "We ar...

The first black swan genome, produced by research headed by UQ, showed that the species lacked certain immunological genes that help other wild waterfowl fight viral infections. Genome Biology reported the results of this study. (Photo : Image from Wikimedia Commons licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.) Potential Influenza Spread According to Associate Professor Kirsty Short from the University of Queensland's School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, Australia's black swans have less exposure to infections that are widespread elsewhere in the globe as a result, which has led to less immunological variety. Black swans, for instance, are especially susceptible to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, often known as bird flu). They may succumb to it within three days, according to Dr. Short. Our research indicates that the black swan's immune system is such that, should any bird viral ill...

The new COVID-19 booster which includes protection for Omicron at AltaMed Health Services in South Gate on Thursday, October 6, 2022. Sarah Reingewirtz | MediaNews Group | Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration's independent advisory committee on Thursday recommended replacing Pfizer and Moderna's original Covid vaccine used in the U.S. for everyone's first two immunizations with the new bivalent omicron shots. If the FDA accepts the advisors' recommendation, the U.S. would likely phase out the companies' vaccines developed in 2020 against the original Covid-19 strain that emerged in Wuhan, China. Instead, the drugmakers' bivalent omicron shots that target the omicron BA.5 subvariant as well as the original strain would be used for the entire vaccination series. Currently, Pfizer's and Moderna's omicron shots are only authorized as a booster, while the first two doses are still their old shots based on the original Covid...

News of the week Locally, COVID cases have continued to decline. The county recorded 355 active cases as of Tuesday's update from the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency . That's 20 fewer than last week. No new deaths were reported locally, keeping the county's pandemic death toll at 276. Local health officials told Lookout last Tuesday that the "tripledemic" threat of COVID, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) surging all at once was showing signs of waning, with all three diseases presenting with less frequency at healthcare facilities in the county. That trend appears to hold true across the greater Bay Area. Wastewater data from early January show that community prevalence of COVID is falling all across the area, including in San Francisco, Palo Alto, San Jose, Sunnyvale and more. In other good news, flu and RSV numbers are following those same trends . The situa...

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"Turn off your mind, relax, and float down stream…"  John Lennon borrowed, modified, and beautified these words from Timothy Leary's 1964 book "The Psychedelic Experience" for his song "Tomorrow Never Knows," which appeared as the last track on the Beatles' Revolver album. It signaled a definitive shift in not only his own consciousness, but a radical and exciting turn in our culture. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 25 (LSD) was the vehicle that took A LOT of folks on a mind-expanding, ego-dissolving journey during the 1960s. There were some with a creative bent that took acid and tremendous works of art were the result. Then there were those who had a spiritual awakening during and after their trip. But this article isn't a blank-check endorsement of taking acid or other psychedelics — especially when you haven't done your due diligence about them and don't have the proper guide. It is, however, a non-threatening alarm to the ...

What Is Diflucan? Diflucan ( fluconazole ) is an orally administered prescription drug used to treat and prevent various fungal infections in adults and children, including thrush (oral) and vaginal yeast infections resulting from differing types of naturally occurring Candida fungus. Diflucan also treats fungal meningitis. Diflucan is categorized as an azole antifungal and works by slowing the growth of fungus. Specifically, azole antifungals are a subgroup of the larger antifungal drug class. The active ingredient in Diflucan is fluconazole. Fluconazole is available as a generic product that can be administered in multiple forms, including oral tablets or liquid suspension (a liquid to be swallowed with small amounts of a drug). However, this article will focus on Diflucan, a brand-name drug administered either through oral tablets or as a powder for liquid suspension. Drug Facts Generic Name : Fluconazo...