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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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Pathogen Immunity
May 18, 2009 3:35 PM by Kerri Penno

One of today's ASM Award Lectures was the Maurice Hilleman Merck Award, presented to Stanley A. Plotkin, Sanofi Pasteur, Doylestown, PA. Maurice Hilleman is known for having developed more than 40 vaccines and is credited with having saved more lives Read More...

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Hive Health
May 18, 2009 2:13 PM by Kerri Penno

In today's "Advances in New Pathogen Discovery" Colloquium at ASM, Joseph DeRisi, University of California, San Francisco, spoke about viral detection, specifically the ViroChip. In studies, the ViroChip has proven to perform with accuracy at least on Read More...

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