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EUA: Help or Hindrance?
October 30, 2009 10:02 AM by Kelly Graham
This week, the FDA issued another emergency use authorization (EUA), this time allowing Focus Diagnostics to market and offer its Simplexa™ Influenza A H1N1 (2009) test for use on the 3M™ Integrated Cycler from 3M to CLIA high-complexity laboratories Read More...
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H1N1 Reassortant Viruses Unlikely, Research Notes
September 8, 2009 11:03 AM by Kelly Graham
This press release from the National Institutes of Health clarifies that while the current strain of H1N1 will predominate in the upcoming influenza season, there doesn’t seem to be biological pressure for the virus to re-combine with other circulating Read More...
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Treatment Resistant Swine Flu ID’ed in U.S.
August 5, 2009 2:04 PM by Kelly Graham
Drug resistance strikes again. U.S. health officials have detected Tamiflu-resistant cases of H1N1 along the U.S.-Mexico border. According to this AFP article , experts gathered in La Jolla, CA, at the Pan-American Health Organization office and warned Read More...
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Healthcare Nation?
July 27, 2009 10:30 AM by Kelly Graham
[Guest commentary by Cheryl McEvoy, from the ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals blog, " ADVANCE Perspective: HIM "] Theory: healthcare is going the way of the fast food industry. A bit counter-intuitive, I know, given the usual wars between Read More...
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On the Scene: AACC Annual Meeting
July 20, 2009 3:35 PM by Kelly Graham
Your ADVANCE reporters are arriving on scene to the AACC Annual Meeting in Chicago, and the McCormick Place Convention Center is bustling with attendees eager to check out a variety of sessions before the exhibit hall opens tomorrow. The conference is Read More...
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Gearing up for AACC/ASCLS 2009
July 14, 2009 9:45 AM by Kelly Graham
Your ADVANCE reporters are eagerly preparing for the AACC Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo in Chicago next week. We look forward to checking out the latest and greatest technologies, attending information-packed educational sessions, and most of all, Read More...
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Graphic Representation of the Second Flu Season
July 8, 2009 11:49 AM by Kelly Graham
While we're well past the end of "normal flu season," pandemic H1N1 has caused a second flu season in the U.S., as illustrated in this graph from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A great deal of influenza is still circulating throughout Read More...
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A1C for Diabetes Diagnosis
June 8, 2009 3:29 PM by Kelly Graham
The A1C assay continues to gain ground as a potential replacement test for the diagnosis of diabetes after an international committee of experts recommended the test at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions this weekend. The assay is traditionally Read More...
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CDC Virologist Discusses H1N1 Genome
April 30, 2009 5:38 PM by Kelly Graham
Science Insider interviewed virologist Ruben Donis, chief of the molecular Virology and Vaccines branch at the CDC about genetics of the H1N1 virus causing the current swine flu outbreak, with some very interesting revelations. The genome of the virus Read More...
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Swine Flu: What's Your Lab Doing to Prepare?
April 27, 2009 10:25 AM by Kelly Graham
Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a nationwide public health emergency after recent human infections with a newly discovered swine influenza A virus. As many as 103 deaths in Mexico may be a result of swine flu, although only Read More...
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NYT: Personalized Medicine Postponed
April 16, 2009 12:51 PM by Kelly Graham
“The genetic analysis of common disease is turning out to be a lot more complex than expected,” proclaims a recent New York Times article . There are the rare diseases that are caused by just one defective gene, the article notes, but most common, problematic Read More...
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Antibiotic Resistance Rears Its Ugly Head--Again
April 14, 2009 3:03 PM by Kelly Graham
In the past couple of years, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has received significant media attention as a prime example of a “superbug” and a somber case study of antibiotic resistance. An abundance of hospital-acquired cases put the Read More...
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Magnetic Force Could Cleanse Blood of Sepsis
March 26, 2009 10:25 AM by Kelly Graham
Researchers in the Vascular Biology Program at Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a magnetic blood-cleansing system that removes pathogens from a patient’s blood, as detailed in this study from the journal Lab on a Chip . The system's concept sounds Read More...
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Hot Topic: Vitamin D Deficiency
March 16, 2009 1:14 PM by Kelly Graham
One in seven American teenagers is vitamin D deficient, according to a new study by researchers in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College, published in the March issue of the journal Pediatrics . An ongoing Wellness Series in Read More...
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Spitting Image
March 13, 2009 3:49 PM by Todd Smith
The gene-testing company 23andMe is looking to collect the spit of 10,000 people with Parkinson's disease. The hope is to use DNA analysis to discover common genetic variations that may cause the illness or predict patients' response to drugs. Google Read More...
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