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"Even though the patient doesn't know us, what's most important is that we do our absolute best for them, because we are affecting lives."
- Vinnie Della Speranza,
Medical University of South Carolina, past president of NSH
Every March 10, NSH sponsors the annual celebration of histology professionals. Check the website for information and updates on events and opportunities to celebrate. Order T-shirts for you and your whole team in time for the big day. Click here.
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Clinical laboratories and biotech companies with new medical laboratory tests are struggling to win coverage by Medicare and private payers. How big is this problem? There are currently tens of thousands of molecular diagnostic assays and genetic tests offered for clinical use. Any lab company seeking to obtain an appropriate Current Procedural Terminology code, favorable coverage guidelines, and adequate reimbursement from health insurers for its new lab test faces three big challenges, and they are related.
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University of Helsinki via Medical Xpress
Removal of a gene protected mice against arterial disease, and they stayed lean even when they ate more. The phenomenon underlying this beneficial phenotype is more active brown adipose tissue. Scientists from Finland developed a mouse model which did not gain weight or develop hardening of arteries, even when they were fed a high-fat diet. The study was published by Science Translational Medicine.
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In an attempt to assess the impact of reporting secondary findings from genetic tests, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital reported recently the results of a study that analyzed whether patients who were tested for APOE genotype status because of a family history of Alzheimer's disease were negatively impacted if they were also told of their risk of cardiovascular disease.
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The Wall Street Journal
U.S. health inspectors have found serious deficiencies at Theranos Inc.'s laboratory in Northern California, according to people familiar with the matter.
The problems were found during an inspection by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the chief federal regulator of clinical labs, at the blood-testing company's facility in Newark, California. Failing to fix the problems could put the Theranos lab at risk of suspension from the Medicare program.
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A comprehensive molecular testing method assessing multiple bacterial and viral pathogens improved detection in patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia and may reduce broad-spectrum antibiotic use, according to findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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Researchers at MIT's David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, in collaboration with scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and several other institutions, have developed an implantable device that in mice shielded insulin-producing beta cells from immune system attack for six months — a substantial proportion of life span.
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Microbes need their vitamins just like people do. Vitamins help keep both organisms healthy and energetic by enabling proteins to do their work. For bacteria, a dearth of vitamins can spell death.
Now scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have made a "vitamin mimic" — a molecule that looks and acts just like the natural vitamin to bacteria, but can be tracked and measured by scientists in live cells.
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JAMA
For a young child with epilepsy, the daily chore of taking pills can be difficult, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's August approval of a 3-D-printed quick-dissolving version of levetiracetam may ease that burden. The approval is the latest evidence that 3-D printing is taking off in medicine as a way to overcome patient-specific challenges. In addition to manufacturers, clinicians themselves are increasingly collaborating with designers and engineers to use 3-D printers to tackle unique clinical challenges.
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Engineers at MIT, Penn State University, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a way to manipulate cells in three dimensions using sound waves. These "acoustic tweezers" could make possible 3-D printing of cell structures for tissue engineering and other applications, the researchers say. Designing tissue implants that can be used to treat human disease requires precisely recreating the natural tissue architecture, but so far it has proven difficult to develop a single method that can achieve that while keeping cells viable and functional.
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Healio
Precision medicine is arguably a sterile-sounding alias for personalized medicine.
One way or the other, both terms encompass the breadth of all objective and highly accurate means by which a patient's or a group of similar patients' clinical care can be tailored.
The discussion surrounding somatic genomic testing at the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network Personalized Medicine Round Table in Philadelphia represents only one of multiple aspects of precision medicine/personalized medicine.
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Mercedes Medical’s equipment division buys, restores and sells the highest quality histology and Mohs laboratory equipment on the market. We offer full service/repair solutions. MORE
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Courtagen Life Sciences reported recently that it has completed the comprehensive Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program and has received its clinical laboratory permit form the state of New York.
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