Boveran Diagnostics, Inc. Adds Nobel Prize Winner, Dr. Kary Mullis, to Board of Advisors Aug 25, 2008
Dr. Mullis's other awards include the Thomas A. Edison Award (1993); California Scientist of the Year Award (1992); the National Biotechnology Award (1991); the Gairdner Award, Toronto, Canada (1991); the Rntist of the Year (1991); the William Allan Memorial Award of the American Society of Human Genetics (1990); and the Preis Biochemische Analytik of the German Society of Clinical Chemistry and Boehringer Mannheim (1990). Dr. Mullis was presented the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from... (PR Newswire)
Legacy ER to provide emergency, urgent care Aug 14, 2008
Patients will be treated with advanced medical technology, including the Abaxis Piccolo xpress, a compact clinical chemistry system designed by NASA for use in outer space. The building is state-of-the-art as well, as designer 5G Studio earned first place honors from the Center for Health Design for its emphasis on space, form, order, and transparency of the building. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
New Test Identifies Heavy Drinkers Aug 1, 2008
A presentation about the test and its effectiveness was to be made Wednesday at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) annual meeting, in Washington, D.C.. "Physicians can use the test as part of an early intervention," James Harasymiw, director of Alcohol Detection Services in Big Bend, Wisc. (MEDLINEplus)
Drug-Test Cheats Try New Tricks Jul 30, 2008
"The bottom line is toxicologists are smarter than drug abusers," Dasgupta told reporters at a meeting of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry in Washington. "If try to cheat on a drug test, we will catch you.". (CBS News)
Novel Diagnostic Marker for Acute Kidney Injury Previewed at Abbott-Sponsored Scientific Workshop Jul 30, 2008
Data Presented at American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Meeting Show Urine NGAL Can Potentially Save Lives by Enabling Faster Detection of Acute Kidney Injury WASHINGTON, July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A new diagnostic marker, called urine NGAL, for early detection of acute kidney injury (AKI) in hospitalized patients can distinguish AKI from other forms of kidney dysfunction and save lives by preventing kidney failure, according to research presented today at the American... (PR Newswire)
Drug Test Cheaters Turning to Web Jul 26, 2008
D., director, chemistry and toxicology, University of California, San Francisco; July 28, 2008, presentation, American Association for Clinical Chemistry, annual meeting, Washington, D.C.) ... Researchers at the University of Texas at Houston Medical School plan to present a detailed list of drug-test cheating options, along with sophisticated counter-measure tests that can be done by laboratory scientists, at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry's annual meeting, Monday, in... (Health-Finder)
OLYMPIC TEST FAILED TO DETECT DOPED SAMPLES... Jun 26, 2008
"It's a nasty problem," said Dr. Joris Delanghe, a professor of clinical chemistry at the University of Ghent in Belgium. He and Dr. Michael Joyner of the Mayo Clinic wrote an editorial accompanying the paper. (The Drudge Report)
Meetings, conventions set to bring millions to D.C. in July Jun 26, 2008
The big three, the National Education Association, the American Association for Clinical Chemistry and Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, are staying longer than typical groups, and are expected to bring millions of dollars into the city ... The National Education Association will bring in bucks over the Fourth of July weekend, and the American Association for Clinical Chemistry returns to D.C. after 17 years to hold its annual event. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Study analyzed SYMBICORT in children with persistent asthma May 21, 2008
1 Safety assessments included reported adverse events, electrocardiograms (ECG), clinical chemistry and vital signs. 2. (EurekAlert!)
Obituaries for Thursday, May 8, 2008 May 8, 2008
She worked at Mayo Clinic in the department of clinical chemistry and helped set up the laboratory quality control department. She retired in 1979 after 42 years at Mayo Clinic. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Blood Discovery: New Hemoglobin Type Found Mar 18, 2008
Dr. Berndt Zur from Professor Birgit Stoffel-Wagner's team at the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology examined the boy's and the father's haemoglobin ... This research is published in the journal 'Clinical Chemistry. (Science Daily)
Engineers Use Blood's Hydrodynamics To Manipulate Stem, Cancer Cells Jan 29, 2008
This collaboration resulted in two human stem cell papers published just within the last month: in Biotechnology Progress (Charles et al., 2007) and Clinical Chemistry (Narasipura et al., 2007). In the new British Journal of Haematology paper, King and colleagues show they can take the process a step further by implanting the device in a living rat with the selectin coating remaining active for 1-2 hours. (Science Daily)
RSNA 2007: Siemens Medical Solutions Unveils an Unprecedented Number of Leading-Edge Solutions to Help Customers Improve Patient Care and Reduce Costs Nov 26, 2007
"We have strategically extended our portfolio, which now covers a broad range of solutions across the continuum of care. Being the world's first and only fully integrated diagnostics company, Siemens can offer its customers leading-edge healthcare IT, imaging and diagnostics that deliver solutions from the radiology department and the laboratory to admissions and administration." With the Dade Behring acquisition complementing the company's existing portfolio in the field of in vitro... (PR Newswire)
Unique pattern of gene expression can indicate acetaminophen overdose Nov 1, 2007
8 percent), while the more traditional predictors, of clinical chemistry, hematology and pathology were approximately 65 to 80 percent accurate. Although it was not the main focus of our study, we wanted to see how applicable this gene expression profiling of blood cells was to humans, said Raymond W. Tennant, Ph. (EurekAlert!)
Muscle Glycogen Storage Disease 0 Oct 11, 2007
From the Departments of Pathology (G.K., A.O.), Pediatrics (M.T., T.G., I.O.-S., G.F.), and Clinical Chemistry (E.H.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; and the Department of Pediatrics, V ... Address reprint requests to Dr. Holme at the Department of Clinical Chemistry, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, 413 45 Gothenburg, Sweden, or at elisabeth. (New England Journal of Medicine)
Todd R. Nelson Named Chief Executive Officer of eBioscience, Inc. Aug 24, 2007
D. from the University of Minnesota in molecular pathology and received advanced training as a senior fellow in clinical chemistry and molecular diagnostics at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Nelson received his MBA from the Carlson School of Business. (PR Newswire)
Dade Behring/Siemens deal unlikely to raise major competition issues but Phase II cannot be excluded - analysis Aug 8, 2007
A third analyst also said he thought the businesses to be complementary with Dade Behring being well-positioned within clinical chemistry technology and Siemens being more focused on immunodiagnostics. They are not in exactly the same lines of business, he said. (FT.com -- Markets)
Power Corp. would be wise not to abandon China Aug 3, 2007
The Eclectica can perform testing on three types of platforms - clinical chemistry, specific proteins and immunoassay, a test that identifies antibodies and antigens. Mr. Larochelle says Ecelectica "is perfect for emerging markets. It is our future.". (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Molecular detectors may refine cancer treatment Jul 20, 2007
The strategy, described in a recent issue of Clinical Chemistry, involves engineering short, single strands of DNA or RNA called aptamers to seek out and bind with specific proteins in body fluids. UF scientists designed the aptamers to bind to cells and molecules associated with leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow that annually claims about 21,000 lives in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute. (EurekAlert!)
White Blood Cells Jun 21, 2007
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Dietary preferences and patterns may be linked to genes Jun 8, 2007
These results, published in Clinical Chemistry, are the first to show that the APOA2 gene is linked to food preferences that shape dietary patterns, particularly preferences for dietary fat ... Corella D, Arnett DK, Tsai MY, Kabagambe EK, Peacock JM, Hixson JE, Straka RJ, Province M, Lai C-Q, Parnell LD, Borecki I, Ordovas JM. Clinical Chemistry. (EurekAlert!)
‘Sacred calling’ Apr 30, 2007
The blood bank functions for the hospital include microbiology, hematology, immunology and clinical chemistry. We do a variety of all these, Vance said. (Carthage Press, MO)
Mitochondria, Peroxisomes, and Disease Apr 26, 2007
From the Departments of Pediatrics (H.R.W., R.J.A.W.) and Clinical Chemistry (H.R.W., J.K., C.W.T.R., P.A.W.M., R.J.A.W.), Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam; and the Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London (J.V.L.) ... F0-224, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands, or at h.r.waterham{at}amc. (New England Journal of Medicine)
Clinical Data's Vital Scientific N.V. Executes OEM Agreement with Sclavo Diagnostics International S.r.l. to Sell Clinical Chemistry Instrumentation in Europe, the Middle East and Africa Apr 11, 2007
Clinical Data s Vital Scientific N.V. Executes OEM Agreement with Sclavo Diagnostics International S.r.l. to Sell Clinical Chemistry Instrumentation in Europe, the Middle East and Africa ... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clinical Data, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDA) announced today that Vital Scientific N.V., the European arm of its Vital Diagnostics division, signed an OEM agreement with Sclavo Diagnostics International S.r.l. of Sovicille (Siena), Italy, to sell the Company s line of automated clinical chemistry... (BusinessWire)
FDA orders Abbott to fix problems faster Mar 30, 2007
The inspection revealed that the automated clinical chemistry and immunoassay analyzers the company makes there are "adulterated" under federal law, "in that the methods used in, or the facilities or controls used for," the manufacture, packing and storage don't comply with current good manufacturing practice requirements. Because the company was late in filing certain reports, the letter notes, "your devices are also misbranded" under current legal requirements governing medical-device... (Chicago Tribune)
New Reference Material For Diagnosing Kidney Disease Mar 24, 2007
Clinical Chemistry 2006 52: 5-18. Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). (Science Daily)
Rising Blood Sugar Means Rising Heart Risk Mar 8, 2007
The American Association for Clinical Chemistry has more about. (SOURCE: American Heart Association, news release, March 5, 2007). (Health-Finder)
Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) Feb 26, 2007
Sabatini L, Torricelli M, Scaccia V, et al, Increased plasma concentrations of antiprothrombin antibodies in women with recurrent spontaneous abortions, Clinical Chemistry, 2007, Feb; 53(2): 228-232. for Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS)" title="Start a discussion for Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS)"> for Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS). (Suite101.com)
CINVENTION and Instrumentation Laboratory Intent to Jointly Market the Unique Product Portfolio of CINVENTION Feb 25, 2007
Instrumentation Laboratory products include critical care, haemostasis, clinical chemistry, flow citometry, hematology, laboratory data management and molecular biology systems. Instrumentation laboratory is part of the CH-Werfen Group. (PR Newswire)
Successful development of prototype assays Feb 16, 2007
Assays using this technology could be run on many existing laboratory instruments, including open instrument platforms such as automated ELISA instruments and closed instrument platforms such as clinical chemistry analysers ... By exploiting panDA Homogeneous Assay technology you could envisage clinical laboratories where a single instrument is capable of performing immunoassays, clinical chemistry assays and assays for critical biomarkers. (EurekAlert!)
Standardized house dust aids health researchers Feb 3, 2007
Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) are among the most widely distributed and used products from NIST. The agency prepares, analyzes and distributes well over a thousand different materials that are used throughout the world to check the accuracy of instruments and test procedures used in manufacturing, clinical chemistry, environmental monitoring, electronics, criminal forensics and dozens of other fields. . (EurekAlert!)
Why is too much water dangerous? Jan 16, 2007
"If you drink too much water it lowers the concentration of salt in your blood so that it is lower than the concentration of salt in cells," says Professor Robert Forrest, a consultant in clinical chemistry and forensic toxicology at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield. Confusion. (BBC News -- UK)
Emergence of New Technologies and Application Areas to Sustain Growth in the European IVD Markets Oct 23, 2006
"The adoption of new technologies, such as molecular and point-of-care testing, combined with the increasing trend towards laboratory automation will drive growth in the European IVD markets," notes Frost van Research Associate Arun A.K. "An emphasis on providing high quality healthcare and ensuring timely diagnosis is driving the adoption of these clinical tests and automated solutions while promoting market growth." Emerging markets such as molecular testing and near testing are supporting... (PR Newswire)
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Students will gain experience in areas such as phlebotomy, hematology, immunology and clinical chemistry. For the remainder of this article see October 3 Monitor-Index. (Moberly Monitor-Index, MO)
HemoCue Introduces the Next Generation Point-of-Care Blood Glucose Test System at EASD in Copenhagen Sep 15, 2006
Dr. Nichols, Associate Professor of Pathology at Tufts University School of Medicine and an active member of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry says: "Blood glucose devices have become smaller, faster and require less blood. However, there is still a great need for point-of-care glucose systems with higher precision and accuracy. Calibration bias coupled with lot-to-lot variations may in some instances lead to errors in measurement and subsequent diagnosis or treatment." In a study... (PR Newswire)
PreMD Reports Second Quarter Results Aug 10, 2006
This study is aimed at expanding PREVU(x) Point of Care (POC) Skin Sterol Test's regulatory claim in the United States to include risk assessment of heart attack and stroke; - Reported positive preliminary data on PREVU(x) LT Skin Sterol Test from the life insurance industry study (PREPARE) that demonstrated statistically significant relationships and is supportive of the study's primary objective; - Submitted a Special 510(k) application to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clearance... (PR Newswire)
Progress report on Homogeneous Assay project Jul 22, 2006
Panbio will be presenting a poster at the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) meeting in Chicago on July 27 outlining the development of the Homogeneous Assay technology to date. The AACC meeting is one of the premier meetings in the world for the medical diagnostics industry. (EurekAlert!)
Beckman Coulter to Host an Investor Event at The American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Exposition in Chicago, Illinois Jul 20, 2006
July 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: ) announced today the company will host an Investor meeting on Monday, July 24, 2006, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (CT) at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Meeting cal Lab Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Attendees will be briefed on the company's recently commercialized chemistry / immunoassay work cell analyzer, the UniCel(R) DxC 600i, the routine chemistry analyzers, UniCel(R) DxC 600 and 800, and the... (PR Newswire)
BioCurex Presents Results at the Largest Clinical Lab Meeting in North America Jul 19, 2006
RICHMOND, British Columbia, July 18, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- BioCurex Inc. (Other OTC: - ) announced today that it will be presenting results obtained with its RECAF(tm) blood test at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Meeting being held in Chicago on July 23-27, 2006 ... The AACC is an international scientific/medical society of clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists and other individuals involved with clinical chemistry and clinical laboratory... (Primezone Releases)
MSMS student wins international award May 21, 2006
Madhavi Pulakat Gavini, 16, of Starkville, Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science in Columbus, "Engineering of a Novel Inhibitor of Biofilm-Encapsulated Pathogens," Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award, $50,000 scholarship; Department of Homeland Security, $20,000 scholarship; Best of Category, Medicine and Health, $5,000 and a computer to the student and $1,000 to the school; first, Medicine and Health, $3,000; first, American Association for Clinical Chemistry, $1,000; first,... (The Clarion-Ledger)
Genetic Test Accurate For Salt-related High Blood Pressure Feb 24, 2006
Once it is fully developed, this effective diagnostic test will be the first of its kind, says Dr. Felder, whose work will be published in the Feb. 23 issue of the journal Clinical Chemistry. When a subject had three or more variations in these genes, the new genetic test correctly predicted risk for salt-induced high blood pressure in 94 percent of cases. (Science Daily)
