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Why are Chlamydia and HPV major public health problems?

Chlamydia trachomatis is a bacterium that is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections in Europe. Rates in sexually active young people are commonly between 5% and 10%. The number of diagnosed cases is increasing in many European countries, in part due to increased testing and the use of more sensitive tests.

22 Feb 2011

MedTrust, Avantra collaborate to develop molecular diagnostic assay for cancer care

MedTrust Online and Avantra Biosciences announced today a novel collaboration to involve clinicians in the earliest stages of molecular diagnostic assay development for Avantra Biosciences' revolutionary QPDx multiplex immunoassay system.

22 Feb 2011

Radiologists who interpret more mammograms can determine breast cancer effectively

Radiologists who interpret more mammograms and spend some time reading diagnostic mammograms do better at determining which suspicious breast lesions are cancer, according to a new report published online on February 22 and in print in the April issue of Radiology.

22 Feb 2011

New technique allows early identification of metastasis in women with breast cancer

A quarter of all women who suffer from breast cancer are at risk of metastasis - a recurrence of the cancer. In recent years, researchers at Lund University, Sweden, have developed a technique that can identify in advance which patients belong to this risk group.

22 Feb 2011

Newly published paper outlines how physicians practice habits can affect their ability to treat LGBT patients

Noting that a patient's level of comfort and trust significantly impacts the type of medical care provided and received, a newly published paper outlines ways that physicians can examine how their own beliefs and practice habits affect their ability to treat lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients.

22 Feb 2011

Research: Blood and hormone level in saliva can reveal burnout symptoms

Your blood and the level of a hormone in your spit could reveal if you're on the point of burnout, according to research undertaken by Dr. Sonia Lupien and Robert-Paul Juster of the Centre for Studies on Human Stress of Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital and the University of Montreal.

22 Feb 2011

Mayo Clinic re-accredited as Advanced Primary Stroke Center by TJC

Mayo Clinic was awarded the Gold Seal of Approval for stroke care and re-accredited as an Advanced Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission following an on-site review conducted Friday, Feb. 18.

21 Feb 2011

Revolutionary blood pressure device

A latest device that looks like a watch “could revolutionize blood pressure monitoring”. The device tied to the wrist can estimate pressure in the aorta, the largest artery in the body.

21 Feb 2011

eClinicalWorks, BayCare Health System partner to provide EHR solutions

eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, and BayCare Health System, the largest community-based health system in the Tampa Bay area, today announced that they have partnered to provide eClinicalWorks' comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) solution to BayCare's approximately 3,000 physicians.

21 Feb 2011

Merge Healthcare's iConnect image interoperability platform to be showcased at HIMSS meeting

Merge Healthcare Incorporated, a global corporation dedicated to health IT interoperability solutions, will have a multi-faceted presence at the upcoming Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting in Orlando February 20-24, 2011.

21 Feb 2011

HP announces new telehealth solutions to improve quality, efficiency of healthcare

HP today announced new product solutions and applications that help advance telehealth adoption and accessibility for healthcare organizations and patients nationwide, promoting improved quality and efficiency of healthcare.

21 Feb 2011

New diagnostic tool to detect patients with active TB disease

Tuberculosis remains one of the most pressing public health priorities for the 21st century, with over one third of the world population infected. Active TB disease is a major issue both for the patients who require specific treatment and at a population level, since these patients are contagious.

21 Feb 2011

CompanDX, CRL enter multi-year agreement to develop biomarker panels

CompanDX Ltd., bioinformatics partner for the life sciences industry, and Clinical Reference Laboratory, Inc. (CRL), provider of laboratory testing services in molecular diagnostics and clinical trials, today announced they entered into a multi-year agreement to collaborate in the development and support of biomarker panels and companion diagnostic development for pharmaceutical, biotech and academic clients worldwide.

19 Feb 2011

New, simple device to detect lung pathogens causing pneumonia

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a new sampling device that could prevent thousands of people worldwide from dying of pneumonia each year.

19 Feb 2011

PreXion launches new 3D Elite Cone Beam Imaging System with CLEARimage Scanning Technology

PreXion, Inc., the leader in high quality 3D Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) Imaging systems for dentistry, today announced that it has launched and started shipping a new 3D cone beam imaging product, the PreXion3D Elite with CLEARimage™ Scanning Technology.

19 Feb 2011

ASU, CGU enter agreement to establish international Biosignatures Center

Arizona State University and Taiwan's Chang Gung University have formalized an agreement to establish an international Biosignatures Center aimed at the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer and other diseases.

19 Feb 2011

China Medical Technologies third quarter revenues increase 30.0% to RMB223.9 million ($33.9M)

China Medical Technologies, Inc., a leading China-based advanced in-vitro diagnostic ("IVD") company, announced its unaudited financial results for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2010 ("3Q FY2010") today.

19 Feb 2011

Merck Canada announces $6.8 million investment in AmorChem for biopharmaceutical research

Merck Canada announced today a $6.8 million investment in AmorChem, a Quebec life sciences venture capital fund. This is the latest investment made by Merck following a commitment made in 2010 to invest an incremental $100 million over five years in biopharmaceutical research and development in Quebec.

19 Feb 2011

Biocare, HJF sign license agreement to distribute antibody against prostate cancer

The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. has signed a licensing agreement with Biocare Medical, a biotechnology company based in Concord, Calif., for the exclusive worldwide sales and distribution rights for the immunohistochemistry of an antibody designed to detect tumor prevalence in prostate cancer patients.

18 Feb 2011

USPTO issues two patents to VIRxSYS SMaRT RNA platform technology

VIRxSYS Corporation, a privately-held biotechnology company with proprietary RNA payload and lentiviral vector delivery platform technologies, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the Company two patents for its SMaRT RNA platform technology, capable of reprogramming or repairing genes to create, increase or change protein expression.

18 Feb 2011

Diagnostic News and Research

Why are Chlamydia and HPV major public health problems?

MedTrust, Avantra collaborate to develop molecular diagnostic assay for cancer care

Radiologists who interpret more mammograms can determine breast cancer effectively

New technique allows early identification of metastasis in women with breast cancer

Newly published paper outlines how physicians practice habits can affect their ability to treat LGBT patients

Research: Blood and hormone level in saliva can reveal burnout symptoms

Mayo Clinic re-accredited as Advanced Primary Stroke Center by TJC

Revolutionary blood pressure device

eClinicalWorks, BayCare Health System partner to provide EHR solutions

Merge Healthcare's iConnect image interoperability platform to be showcased at HIMSS meeting

HP announces new telehealth solutions to improve quality, efficiency of healthcare

New diagnostic tool to detect patients with active TB disease

CompanDX, CRL enter multi-year agreement to develop biomarker panels

New, simple device to detect lung pathogens causing pneumonia

PreXion launches new 3D Elite Cone Beam Imaging System with CLEARimage Scanning Technology

ASU, CGU enter agreement to establish international Biosignatures Center

China Medical Technologies third quarter revenues increase 30.0% to RMB223.9 million ($33.9M)

Merck Canada announces $6.8 million investment in AmorChem for biopharmaceutical research

Biocare, HJF sign license agreement to distribute antibody against prostate cancer

USPTO issues two patents to VIRxSYS SMaRT RNA platform technology

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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