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Supplement Focuses on 68 EID Agents
August 4, 2009 2:13 PM by Caitlin Maloney
A supplement on emerging infectious disease (EID) agents and their potential treat to transfusion safety will be included in the August issue of TRANSFUSION , the peer-reviewed journal of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) and publication Read More...
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AACC Unveils New Lab Tests Online Web site
July 29, 2009 3:12 PM by Caitlin Maloney
The AACC, a professional society dedicated to improving healthcare though laboratory medicine, has unveiled a rebranded and resigned Lab Tests Online Web site. After 9 years and more than 200 million page views, the AACC finally revealed the change at Read More...
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NSA Opens New Facility
July 29, 2009 3:10 PM by Caitlin Maloney
NeuroScience Associates Inc. (NSA), Knoxville, TN, a neurohistology services company, announced the opening of a new facility to keep up with the growing demand of pharmaceutical companies and research labs. The new lab is projected to quadruple the capacity Read More...
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LabCorp to Merge With Monogram Biosciences
July 29, 2009 2:02 PM by Caitlin Maloney
A LabCorp press release stated the company is set to strengthen it's leadership in infectious disease and oncology, and advance personalized medicine strategy by acquiring Monogram Biosciences Inc., a provider of diagnostic products. The merger will allow Read More...
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Cryo-Cell Announces Collaboration With Cryopraxix Cryobiology
July 28, 2009 3:33 PM by Caitlin Maloney
Cryo-Cell International Inc., Oldsmar, FL, a stem cell innovation company, announced a research and development collaboration agreement with Cryopraxix Cryobiology Ltd., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a global stem cell banking and research company. Through Read More...
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New Accreditation Program for Labs in Africa
July 27, 2009 3:52 PM by Caitlin Maloney
The first push for accreditation of Africa's medical laboratories was recently launched by government health officials from 13 African countries, starting a process the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. government believe will strengthen health Read More...
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New Lab Test Helps Predict Kidney Damage
July 27, 2009 3:22 PM by Caitlin Maloney
A new laboratory test, urine neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin (NGAL), will help predict if patients will develop acute kidney injury (AKI), a study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) reported. Another study in JASN also Read More...
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New H1N1 Test Released
July 24, 2009 2:48 PM by Kerri Penno
The FDA announced it has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a another diagnostic test for H1N1, characterized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The EUA for the Focus Diagnostics Influenza H1N1 (2009) real-time reverse transcription Read More...
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MRSA MRSA Me
July 23, 2009 8:53 PM by Amanda Koehler
In his ASCLS session,“MRSA MRSA Me—Things Ain’t What They Used to Be!,” Richard B. (Tom) Thomson, Jr. PhD, D(ABMM), Evanston Hospital-Northshore University Health System, Chicago, encouraged attendees to define the MRSA problem in their facility. "In Read More...
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PERFAR and BD Make Progress in Africa
July 20, 2009 12:34 PM by Caitlin Maloney
The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PERFAR) and Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) have made progress in improving laboratory conditions and skills of lab personnel battling against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) in sub-Saharan Africa. Read More...
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New Info for xTAG RVP Package Insert
July 14, 2009 3:45 PM by Caitlin Maloney
Luminex Corp., leader in multiplexed solutions, announced the FDA has cleared labeling updates for the company's xTAG Respiratory Viral Panel (RVP) to include data about the performance of the test in humans infected with H1N1 or swine flu. The package Read More...
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CellSearch Helps MBC
July 14, 2009 2:24 PM by Caitlin Maloney
A study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology , highlights the benefits of measuring the change in circulating tumor cell (CTC) count in patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) to accurately predict their disease progression, prognosis and Read More...
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Stop Testing for H1N1?
July 8, 2009 11:49 AM by Amanda Koehler
An article I found on the United Press International's Web site said the WHO is getting ready to tell countries to stop testing for the H1N1 virus. Because these tests are flooding labs and making it hard for laboratorians to keep up, healthcare professionals Read More...
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Merger Alert
June 30, 2009 12:55 PM by Kerri Penno
ViraCor Laboratories, which specializes in molecular diagnostic testing for infectious diseases; and IBT Laboratories, a clinical-diagnostics and biomedical-research laboratory specializing in immunology and allergy assays, today announced the companies Read More...
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Fighting TB
June 17, 2009 11:02 AM by Kerri Penno
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), Franklin Lakes, NJ; and Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), a Swiss foundation developing, evaluating and accelerating implementation of new diagnostic tools for poverty-related diseases, today announced Read More...
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