Important Health Screening Tests
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Cenogenics Corporation has been involved in important health
screening programs since 1982. One of Cenogenics wholly owned subsidiaries
actually invented Hemoccult, the original guaiac occult blood test. After the
sale of the product to Smith Kline, Cenogenics was able to continue the
development of the guaiac chemistry that lead to a more sensitive test with
excellent stability. The American Cancer Society adopted the Cenogenics
Trislide™ Stool Blood Test for its United States nationwide colorectal cancer
screening programs. Since the incidence of colorectal cancer increases with
age, countries around the world have undertaken colorectal cancer screening of
men and women by age 50. Cenogenics is proud that patients lives have been
saved by using the Trislide™ test. |
| Cenogenics health interests have helped individuals monitor
their diet progess. Since it often takes four weeks for weight loss to be
noticed, Cenogenics realized that a simple at home diet test could encourage
dieters by letting them know that their diet was working. When an individual
begins a diet, the body begins to metabolically utilize the fat reserves for
its metabolic needs. As the stored fat is metabolized, chemicals called ketones
are created and are excreted in the urine. Cenogenics diet ketone strip test
became very popular and was sold through very large distribution in the United
States and other countries. |
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Cenogenics interest in home use health monitors lead to
another very significant new product. Approximately 16 years ago, three
scientists won the Nobel Prize for showing that nitric oxide had a very
important role in human health. Based on the Nobel laureate scientists’ work, a
young scientist developed a special natural ingredient formula that enhanced
the body’s ability to produce nitric oxide. However, to show users the nitric
oxide health formula worked, the scientist enlisted Cenogenics help to produce
a diagnostic strip test that, when used with saliva, would accurately show the
increase in nitric oxide level they achieved with the nitric oxide health
formula. Now hundreds of thousands of nitric oxide strip tests are sold every
year to people using the special health formula.
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| Insurance companies and other companies involved in health
awareness programs have been working with Cenogenics to develop tests and
programs to overcome the adverse effects of stress. Several years ago,
Cenogenics developed a reliable visual chemistry system that safely allowed
home users to screen for malondialdehyde, also known as MDA. The presence of
MDA in the urine is a useful indicator for oxidative stress and cell membrane
damage due to free radicals. Recent studies have developed a technical
breakthrough that has resulted in an MDA strip chemistry test that has
excellent sensitivity and stability. |
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The excellent performance of Cenogenics products have aided
the health of individuals worldwide. |
