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How to Childproof Your Home for Safety

Learn 5 easy ways to childproof your home for safety. Ensuring your home is a safe place for kids is a crucial task for parents, grandparents, or anyone who regularly has children in their home. From outlets to outdoor toxins, you need to childproof your home so the kids in your life can live and… Read More »

Dried blood spots have clear advantages over mini tubes when it comes to lab analysis of home collected samples for HIV and syphilis testing

Blood samples taken at home and sent by post to labs to screen for HIV and syphilis are more likely to be successfully processed when the collection technique used is dried blood spots rather than mini tubes, investigators from the UK report in Sexually Transmitted Infections. Close to 95% of dried blood spot samples were… Read More »