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 | 11/19/2009
Saliva Proteins Change As Women Age
In a step toward using human saliva to tell whether those stiff joints, memory lapses, and other telltale signs of aging are normal or red flags for disease, scientists are describing how the protein...
Source: American Chemical Society |
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11/18/2009
GeneNews partners with Enzo Clinical Labs to market ColonSentry? in the U.S.
- GeneNews licenses exclusive marketing rights for colorectal cancer blood test to Enzo for key states of New York and New Jersey -...
Source: GeneNews Limited |
11/18/2009
Pathology Testing Prices As A Commodity: Australia’s Health System Stands At A Crossroads
Pathology testing is under the gun in Australia. Fast-rising utilization of pathology testing over the past decade has caught the attention of health system policy makers. They are concerned about the...
Source: Dark Daily |
11/17/2009
IBM Scientists Reinvent Medical Diagnostic Testing
ZURICH, Nov. 17/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly f...
Source: IBM |
11/17/2009
Liquid Tissue® Patent Licensed For Amyloidosis Proteomic Assay
Expression Pathology, a leader in tissue proteomic analysis, today announced Mayo Clinic has licensed non-exclusive rights to Expression Pathology's Liquid Tissue® patent for use in diagnosis of syste...
Source: Expression Pathology Inc. |
11/17/2009
FDA Clears the First Rapid Test to Detect Bacteria in Pooled Platelets
Fenwal, Inc., a global medical technology company focused on improving blood collection, separation, safety and availability, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the...
Source: Fenwal, Inc. |
11/17/2009
High Diagnostic Potential For Indication Specific Biomarkers
The 1st user meeting on protein arrays in clinical applications was organized by Protagen, Germany, and focused on the increasing relevance of new markers and marker panels for drug development and th...
Source: b3c newswire |
11/12/2009
ARKRAY, Inc. Launches New and Improved Assure® Pro Blood Glucose Monitoring Test Strips
ARKRAY, Inc., the world's 5th largest manufacturer of diabetes self-monitoring systems, today announced the launch of a new and improved Assure Pro Blood Glucose Monitoring Test Strip....
Source: ARKRAY USA |
11/12/2009
U.S. Patent Office Issues Vermillion Patent for Biomarkers Detecting Ovarian Cancer
Vermillion, Inc. , a molecular diagnostics company, today announced that the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO) has issued patent number 7,605,003 titled "Use of biomarkers for detecting ovarian cancer" to th...
Source: Vermillion, Inc. |
11/12/2009
Succession Planning Omission Will Dearly Cost Many Clinical Labs And Pathology Groups
There’s a ticking clock in your lab: the fast-approaching retirement of your best section managers, department heads, senior administrators, and pathologists! Yet there is still time for your lab or p...
Source: Dark Daily |
11/10/2009
BioMérieux Launches A Molecular Diagnostic Test For MRSA
bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, has launched NucliSENS EasyQ® MRSA, a new automated test for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), one of the leading cau...
Source: bioMérieux |
11/9/2009
Blood Test Identifies Women at Risk from Alzheimer's
Middle-aged women with high levels of a specific amino acid in their blood are twice as likely to suffer from Alzheimer's many years later, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the Univers...
Source: University of Gothenburg |
11/9/2009
Teaching “Best Practices” in Pathology Group Practice Management
Despite a slow economy, new technology continues to flood into anatomic pathology. These two contradictory forces make it essential for pathologist business leaders and their practice administrators t...
Source: Dark Daily |
11/6/2009
Research Findings Key for Understanding, Interpreting Genetic Testing for Long QT Syndrome
Results of a long QT syndrome (LQTS) study published in the current issue of Circulation play an important role in understanding genetic testing's role in diagnosing disease, according to the senior a...
Source: Mayo Clinic |
11/5/2009
Professor Receives Grant to Develop More Rapid Technology for Screening Blood Samples
Dr. Jennifer Brodbelt, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $734,068 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new method...
Source: The University of Texas at Austin |
11/4/2009
Laboratory Transforms Manual Urinalysis with Automation and More
In today’s era of automation and Lean Six Sigma processes in laboratory medicine, the manual urinalysis test may be ready for a major makeover. Such a development would be welcome because, in the typi...
Source: Dark Daily |
11/3/2009
Many Doctors Overuse Pap Testing: Survey
Many U.S. primary care doctors are out of step with guidelines on Pap testing for cervical cancer -- largely because they overuse the test, according to a study published Monday....
Source: Reuters Health |
11/2/2009
superDimension Launches Second Generation iLogic?Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy System to Detect and Diagnose Lung Cancer
superDimension, Inc.®, a private company that develops minimally invasive interventional pulmonology devices, announced today the launch of the iLogic System for early lung cancer detection and diagno...
Source: superDimension, Inc. |
11/2/2009
Lung Cancer Diagnosis Breakthrough from superDimension Receives Category I® CPT Reimbursement Codes
superDimension, Inc.®, a private company that develops minimally invasive interventional pulmonology devices, announced today that The American Medical Association (AMA) has issued a new Category I CP...
Source: superDimension, Inc. |
10/30/2009
Clinical Labs Make Money By Using Revenue Cycle Management
Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is hitting the radar screen at the nation’s best-managed clinical laboratories. That’s because shrinking reimbursement makes it imperative for clinical labs and patholog...
Source: Dark Daily |
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