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Obama Setting Bad Example By Smoking?
March 13, 2010 12:06 PM by Matthew T. Patton
Barack Obama underwent his first physical exam as president late last month. The doctor declared him "fit for duty," with a few recommendations: Modify diet to lower cholesterol; follow a daily exercise program; and, of most interest to me, continue smoking Read More...
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Philadelphia: Overstepping Bounds With New Sugar Tax?
March 6, 2010 2:28 PM by Matthew T. Patton
This week, the city of Philadelphia announced its intention to tax sugary drinks. The so-called “soda tax,” will add a hefty per-ounce tax onto sugar drinks. In one illustrative example, a Philadelphia Inquirer article noted that two-liter bottles of Read More...
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Oprah Touts Diabetes Screening
February 5, 2010 11:28 AM by Amanda Koehler
Something we as a society have learned over the last decade or so is that when Oprah talks, people listen. If she adds a book to her book club, it becomes a best seller. In 1996 during an episode on mad cow disease, Oprah said she would never eat another Read More...
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Companies Collaborate on EHR Adoption
January 28, 2010 12:06 PM by Amanda Koehler
McKesson, San Francisco, and HP, Palo Alto, CA, recently announced they are collaborating to accelerate and simplify electronic health record (EHR) adoption at independent physician practices across the country. The companies will offer physicians McKesson's Read More...
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To Test or Not to Test?
January 19, 2010 9:34 AM by Amanda Koehler
Last week I blogged about knowing your family medical history . When you look at genetic diseases and illnesses in your family tree, that could lead to a discussion on genetic testing. Some diseases, including breast cancer, have genetic tests available Read More...
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H1N1 Rates Dropping
November 24, 2009 10:40 AM by Kerri Penno
The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus infection rates may have peaked in late October, but the pandemic flu virus continues to be a potential source of illness in all age groups, including the elderly, according to a new report by Quest Diagnostics Inc. In its Read More...
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Mammography and the Right to Choose
November 20, 2009 3:53 PM by Matthew T. Patton
(Editor's note: This is a guest blog written by Valerie M. Chapman, RN, MSN, a pediatric nurse for 25 years. She is a 3-year breast cancer survivor and lives in Medford, NJ, with her husband and two children.) I am a wife, a mother of two awesome kids, Read More...
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Signs of the Times
November 13, 2009 1:46 PM by Matthew T. Patton
Acknowledging healthcare reform has been controversial would definitely be an understatement. Almost everywhere I've traveled lately I've heard highly emotional and passionate positions for both sides of the debate. This past weekend, a large group of Read More...
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H1N1 Diagnosis
October 20, 2009 11:45 AM by Amanda Koehler
About a month ago, I was visiting with my sister. During our conversation, she brought up that her boyfriend had swine flu. I was concerned for him (and, additionally, for her) but also intrigued because he was the first person I knew who had H1N1. Working Read More...
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OCD Releases Anti-HIV Test
October 14, 2009 1:25 PM by Amanda Koehler
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Raritan, NJ, announced today FDA approval of a diagnostic assay for the detection of antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) types 1+2 (Anti-HIV 1+2) for use on the VITROS 5600 Integrated and VITROS 3600 Immunodiagnostic Read More...
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Be SMART
September 28, 2009 3:50 PM by Kerri Penno
bioMérieux, an in vitro diagnostics company, heightened its role in the fight against antimicrobial resistance by launching its Solutions to Manage the Antimicrobial Resistance Threat (SMART) Campaign at the 49th Annual Interscience Conference for Antimicrobial Read More...
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H1N1 Vaccine Approved
September 15, 2009 3:53 PM by Kerri Penno
The FDA has approved four vaccines against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. The vaccines will be distributed nationally after the initial lots become available, which is expected within the next 4 weeks. All four firms manufacturing the H1N1 vaccines--CSL Read More...
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FDA Clears Vermillion's OVA1
September 14, 2009 1:00 PM by Kerri Penno
The FDA has cleared Vermillion Inc.'s (Fremont, CA) OVA1 test to help detect ovarian cancer in pelvic masses requiring surgery. OVA1 identifies women who will benefit from referral to a gynecological oncologist for surgery, despite negative results from Read More...
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(Flu) Shots for All!
August 19, 2009 12:22 PM by Amanda Koehler
This morning I read a story in the New York Times about how New York is mandating flu shots for all healthcare workers, mostly out of fear of H1N1 outbreaks. A healthcare union in the state is protesting, saying: "Healthcare workers on the front lines Read More...
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Rapid Tests for H1N1
August 6, 2009 8:47 AM by Amanda Koehler
Here's a great article from The New York Times featuring the lab and H1N1 testing. The story says rapid tests for H1N1 fail to properly detect infections more than half the time. Have you been finding this is true for your laboratory? Read More...
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