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Metabolomics for Personalizing Medicine: 2012 UpdateMetabolomics for Personalizing Medicine: 2012 Update
How is this phenotype-driven technology advancing personalized medicine? Personalized Medicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - May 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pathology & Lab Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news

Clues To Tooth Regeneration Provided By Alligator Stem Cell Study
Alligators may help scientists learn how to stimulate tooth regeneration in people, according to new research led by the Keck School of Medicine of USC. For the first time, a global team of researchers led by USC pathology Professor Cheng-Ming Chuong, M.D., Ph.D., has uncovered unique cellular and molecular mechanisms behind tooth renewal in American alligators. Their study, titled "Specialized stem cell niche enables repetitive renewal of alligator teeth," appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the official journal of the United States National Academy of Sciences... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Dentistry Source Type: news

Group Health Cooperative Study Uses EHRs and Stepped Interventions to Double Rate of Colorectal Cancer Screenings
Pathologists and clinical laboratory managers may find new opportunities to increase testing volumes as patients’electronic health records yield clinically relevant data Sophisticated use of electronic health records (EHRs), automated reminder systems, and telephone follow-up can double cancer-screening compliance by consumers. That could mean an increase in testing volumes for clinical laboratories serving clinics using this [...] (Source: Dark Daily)
Source: Dark Daily - May 13, 2013 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: jude Tags: Instruments & Equipment Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Operations Laboratory Pathology Annals of Internal Medicine Beverly Green clinical laboratory colon can Source Type: news

Physiology and pathology of saccades and gaze holding - Shaikh AG, Ghasia FF.
INTRODUCTION: Foveation is the fundamental requirement for clear vision. Saccades rapidly shift the gaze to the interesting target while gaze holding ensures foveation of the desired object. PURPOSE: We will review the pertinent physiology of saccades and ... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - May 11, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Sensing and Response Issues Source Type: news

Signos RT, or Sonimage P3, Handheld Ultrasound Receives FDA Approval
Signostics (Thebarton, South Australia) has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market its Signos RT handheld ultrasound device in the United States, where it will be sold as the Sonimage P3. The Signos RT is a handheld self-contained portable ultrasound imager with an attached probe, and is one of the smallest ultrasound devices available. The RT is the successor to the the original Signos device which has been on the market since 2009. The new device has already been available in Europe and Australia for some months.The Signos RT offers real-time B-Mode, M-Mode and PW (pulsed wave) Doppler imaging and volume measurements....
Source: Medgadget Anesthesiology - May 10, 2013 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Wouter Stomp Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Ob/Gyn Radiology Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: news

Mouth Pipetting: Blogger Reminds Medical Laboratory Technologists of an Era When This Was Leading Source of Clinical Laboratory-acquired Infections
Today, cheap and accurate mechanical pipettes are used by clinical pathology laboratories, although mouth pipetting, a dangerous medical lab practice, is still used in developing nations Mouth pipetting was the topic of a recent blog published by Body Horrors. The blogger recalled a time when clinical laboratory professionals routinely mouth pipetted specimens. Mouth pipetting is [...] (Source: Dark Daily)
Source: Dark Daily - May 10, 2013 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: jude Tags: Instruments & Equipment Laboratory Operations Laboratory Pathology clinical laboratory clinical laboratory scientists electronic health record Fear Factor lab specimen medical laboratory medical technologists mouth pipetting pipette Source Type: news

Nigeria: Dubious Medical Laboratories
[Daily Trust]The Association of Pathologists of Nigeria (APN) recently sounded the alarm that half of all test results obtained in Nigerian medical laboratories are unreliable. According to the association, this was because there are fake and substandard laboratories all over the country, whose activities lead to wrong diagnoses by physicians and sometimes deaths. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 10, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Groups Back Adjuvant RT for Some Prostate Cancers (CME/CE)
SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- Men with adverse-pathology prostate cancer should have the option of adjuvant radiation therapy after prostatectomy, according to a clinical guideline issued jointly by two organizations. (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - May 9, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news

STATLINE Issue May 9, 2013
In This Issue: CAP ’13 Policy Meeting Emphasizes Reform Challenges, Opportunities - CAP Pushes CMS for Meaningful Use Answers - CAP Challenges AHRQ on Genetic Test Definitions - Medicare Cost Growth Slows, Raises Doubts for IPAB Role - Correction: Provider Edits Planned for May 1 Are Delayed (Source: STATLINE Federal and State News Briefs)
Source: STATLINE Federal and State News Briefs - May 9, 2013 Category: Pathology Source Type: news

Health Insurers Spending Big Dollars to Be Players in ‘Big Data’; Trend has Implications for Clinical Pathology Laboratories
With healthcare reform likely to limit their growth, health insurers are expanding into data management to create new revenue streams Faced with swift changes in healthcare, many of which are not favorable to the traditional business model of private health insurers, the nation’s largest payers are positioning themselves to be major players in the management [...] (Source: Dark Daily)
Source: Dark Daily - May 8, 2013 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Barbara Tags: Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Management & Operations Allscripts Healthcare Solutions American Medical Group Association AMGA Anceta Ashish Jha A Source Type: news

BIDMC's Dennis P. Wall honored for autism research
(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Dennis P. Wall, PhD, an investigator in the Department of Pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Director of the Computational Biology Initiative at the Center for Biomedical Infomatics at Harvard Medical School, was recently honored at the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR). Attended by more than 1,800, IMFAR is the world's largest international conference on autism. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 8, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

East of England pathology shake-up details emerge
Trusts involved in a controversial pathology services reconfiguration are to consult staff on the changes later this month, amid union claims that major logistical issues surrounding the project remain unresolved. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - May 7, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Researchers Have Discovered Synthetic Agents Used To Treat HIV Inflammation
HIV can cause serious inflammation, regardless of drug therapy, as it develops slowly in immune cells called macrophages. However, new research conducted at the Temple University School of Medicine's Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Center for Substance Abuse Research (CSAR) has just found that there are synthetic agents with anti-inflammatory properties, related to the active ingredient in cannabis, THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) which could limit and treat the chronic inflammation. According to new guidelines by the U.S... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: HIV / AIDS Source Type: news

Study: MicroRNA cooperation mutes breast cancer oncogenes
(University of Colorado Denver) "Imagine you have a microRNA that regulates genes A and B. Then you have another microRNA that regulates genes B and C. You amplify each microRNA to a degree that doesn't effect gene A or C, but their combined effect regulates gene B," says Bolin Liu, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - May 7, 2013 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Dr. Jerome L. Sullivan III: Pathologist conceived of 'iron hypothesis'
Dr. Jerome L. Sullivan III, the pathologist who first theorized of a link between heart disease and iron levels in the blood, died Friday of complications from diabetes. He was 68. Sullivan, a physician, scientist and professor, was recognized around... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - May 6, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Teach a Man to Fish…Will He?
One of our most profound errors of social intelligence is the assumption that if we provide someone with a vehicle for change, they will not only accept it, but undertake to make it.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - May 6, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael J. Formica, MS, MA, EdM Tags: Personality Relationships Self-Help Spirituality assumption co workers DUI enablers fallacy family pet frustration good faith impetus invocation kids co objective experience pathology slippery slope social intelligence Source Type: news

Melatonin Suppresses Cisplatin-Induced NephrotoxicityMelatonin Suppresses Cisplatin-Induced Nephrotoxicity
This study explores the mechanisms by which melatonin might attenuate cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity. Nutrition and Metabolism (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - May 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pathology & Lab Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news

Tiny Faroe Islands to Begin Sequencing Genomes of All 50,000 Residents in Ambitious Effort to Advance Personalized Medicine
Because of isolation from the worldwide DNA pool for the past 1,200 years, Faroese population is vulnerable to recessive gene disorders Because of the dramatic—and still falling—cost of DNA sequencing, an ambitious project is launching with the goal of sequencing the full DNA of all 50,000 residents of the Faroe Islands. When completed, this project [...] (Source: Dark Daily)
Source: Dark Daily - May 6, 2013 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: jude Tags: Digital Pathology Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology ACMG American College of Medical Genetics Bogi Eliasen Brigham and Women’s Hospital carnitine transporter deficiency clinical laboratory CTD Source Type: news

Synthetic Agents Related To Active Ingredient In Marijuana Weaken HIV Infection
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is notorious for hiding within certain types of cells, where it reproduces at a slowed rate and eventually gives rise to chronic inflammation, despite drug therapy. But researchers at Temple University School of Medicine's Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Center for Substance Abuse Research (CSAR) recently discovered that synthetic anti-inflammatory substances distantly related to the active ingredient of marijuana may be able to take the punch out of HIV while inside one of its major hideouts - immune cells known as macrophages... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 4, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: HIV / AIDS Source Type: news

Esoteric Anatomic Pathology Testing Is Goal of New Pact between PAML and CellNetix
Agreement calls for both parties to collaborate in offering esoteric and reference anatomic pathology services nationally It is an effort to align their clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology services to the evolving needs of hospitals, physicians and other providers. To achieve this goal, two laboratory organizations in the Pacific Northwest finalized months of negotiations and [...] (Source: Dark Daily)
Source: Dark Daily - May 3, 2013 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: jude Tags: Laboratory Hiring & Human Resources Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Operations Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Sales and Marketing agreement American Pathology Partners App CellNetic clinical laboratory Source Type: news

Unraveling Chemokine and Chemokine Receptor Expression Patterns Using Genetically Engineered Mice
Over the past 25 years, genetically engineered mouse models have become an integral and invaluable research tool to develop our understanding of mammalian physiology and pathology. This unit describes methods for generating transgenic mice, focusing on reporter animals relevant to chemokine receptor and ligand expression. Specifically, we describe the use of bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) engineering and embryonic stem cell manipulation to generate “knock in” and transgenic mice. (Source: Springer protocols feed by Biochemistry)
Source: Springer protocols feed by Biochemistry - May 3, 2013 Category: Biochemistry Source Type: news

Acne Guidelines Endorsed by American Academy of Pediatrics Acne Guidelines Endorsed by American Academy of Pediatrics
Presentation, differential diagnosis, and association of acne with systemic pathology differ by age, according to new guidelines for the management of pediatric acne. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - May 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news

Clinical Pathology Laboratories Still Waiting for Molecular Test Payments, Speakers Report at First Day of Executive War College
For more than a year Medicare contractors have been developing payment rates for the 114 molecular tests and without setting rates, they cannot make payments. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 30, 2013—Getting paid for molecular test claims submitted under the new molecular CPT codes was a subject of high interest on the opening day of the [...] (Source: Dark Daily)
Source: Dark Daily - May 1, 2013 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: jude Tags: Coding, Billing, and Collections Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Operations Laboratory Pathology Managed Care Contracts & Payer Reimbursement Management & Operations 114 molecular tests Alan Mertz Californ Source Type: news

CAP Releases First Evidence-Based Guideline for Validating Whole Slide Imaging
Read the guideline available in Archives. Download a summary of the recommendations and related ebook chapter. (Source: CAP Important Announcements and News)
Source: CAP Important Announcements and News - May 1, 2013 Category: Pathology Source Type: news

Diagnosing an Mimic of Invasive AdenocarcinomaDiagnosing an Mimic of Invasive Adenocarcinoma
This paper outlines a practical approach to easily identify intestinal microcarcinoids and immunohistochemically distinguish them from infiltrating adenocarcinoma. Journal of Clinical Pathology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - April 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pathology & Lab Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news

Dear Doc (& Men, Too): Less Viagra, Please
Many men who don't get erect don't have an erection problem, they have an expectation problem. Viagra won't help them.read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - April 30, 2013 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Marty Klein, PhD Tags: Health Integrative Medicine Relationships Sex cialis doctors drugs erectile dysfunction erection erections expectation inclination intercourse levitra pathology penis penis viagra personal history sessions sexuality Source Type: news

Meet the Clinical Pathology Laboratory on the Palm of a Hand: Japanese Researchers Announce a Point-of-Care Testing Device That Detects MicroRNA in 20 Minutes
Second-generation device is self-powered, does not require a trained operator, and amplifies the fluorescence signal by 1,000-fold, enabling early detection of cancer Pathologists will be interested to learn that Japanese researchers have developed a second-generation lab-on-a-chip that detects microRNA (miRNA) from a tiny sample volume in only 20 minutes! Their goal is to create a [...] (Source: Dark Daily)
Source: Dark Daily - April 29, 2013 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: jude Tags: Instruments & Equipment Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Operations Laboratory Pathology Alzheimer’s cancer clinical laboratory Hideyuki Arata Hiroshi Komatsun Kazuo Hosokawa lab on a chip laminar f Source Type: news

The hidden dangers of legal highs
In the last five years, the market for legal highs has exploded. It's never been easier, or cheaper, to buy drugs online – but no one knows what's in them, or how dangerous they areFor most of the last decade, an average of four or five new legal drugs came on to the market each year. Trade was steady – government efforts were focused on fighting the spread of illegal substances. And then mephedrone appeared on the scene: cheap, legal and available online. By 2010, the drug, now dubbed meow meow by journalists, had become the fourth most popular drug on the market, after marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy. It was banned in...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 26, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Mike Power Tags: The Guardian Society Drugs Law Technology Features Drugs policy Internet Science Source Type: news

New iPhone App Allows Consumers to Test Their Urine on the Go for as Many as 25 Different Diseases
Pathologists and clinical laboratory managers may want to learn more about the UCheck mobile app developed by Biosense Technologies Developers of a new iPhone application claim their app can analyze a urine specimen for up to 25 different diseases. This mobile app is a deliberate attempt to give consumers the ability to perform diagnostic [...] (Source: Dark Daily)
Source: Dark Daily - April 26, 2013 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: jude Tags: Instruments & Equipment Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology AliveCor Android anemia Apple bilirubin biosense technologies bladder cancer cardiogram chronic condition clinical laboratory diabetes diagnostic test digital E Source Type: news

What Effect Will the Myriad Ruling Have on Biotech?
Much has been made of the importance of the lawsuit brought by the Association of Molecular Pathology and the ACLU against Myriad Genetics over the BRCA patents. The case was just heard by the Supreme Court and some feel a decision in favor of Myriad's patents would stifle research and enable companies to own our genes, whereas others voice concern that a decision against Myriad would undermine the biotech industry and stop the flow of innovative new medical technology. In fact, both positions seem a bit overblown. ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Biotech Biomedical)
Source: About.com Biotech Biomedical - April 26, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news

Candida: New Rapid Blood Test Could Cut Mortality Candida: New Rapid Blood Test Could Cut Mortality
A new, rapid test for Candida infections of the bloodstream may cut mortality from 40% to 11% by reducing the time to diagnosis. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - April 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pathology & Lab Medicine News Source Type: news

STATLINE Issue April 25, 2013
In This Issue: Supreme Court Hears Gene Patent Case - Reminder: Provider Edits Go Into Effect May 1 - HHS Seeks Input on Improving EHR Interoperability and Adoption - Tennessee Legislation Recognizes CAP Accreditation - Negotiated Washington State Bill Upholds AG Opinion on EHRs - NC House Considers Release of Pathological Materials - It’s Not Too Late! Signup for the CAP Policy Meeting (Source: STATLINE Federal and State News Briefs)
Source: STATLINE Federal and State News Briefs - April 25, 2013 Category: Pathology Source Type: news

Tricuspid valve: a valve not to be forgotten
Left side heart valve pathology often is accompanied by significant tricuspid regurgitation (TR) which does not always reverse with its correction. The new European guidelines recommend surgery on the tricuspid valve of these patients if TR is severe or provided the annulus is ≥40mm or ≥21mm/m², independently of the regurgitation. Thus, we are encouraged to act prophylactically in apparently less severe disease. Read more Topics: Valvular Heart Diseases (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - April 24, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Biofabrication Strategies for Skin Regeneration and RepairBiofabrication Strategies for Skin Regeneration and Repair
This review details recent advances in skin regeneration and repair strategies utilizing tissue-engineered skin substitutes and advanced biomanufacturing techniques. Nanomedicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - April 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pathology & Lab Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news

New York City Clinical Laboratory Uses Mobile Devices to Provide Its Sales Team with Real-Time Business Intelligence from Its CRM
Manhattan Labs is an early-adopter of the trend toward increased use of lab-specific CRM solutions with the goal of gaining competitive advantage To improve its competitive position in the tough clinical laboratory testing market of New York City, one medical laboratory company has implemented a cloud-based, lab-specific customer relationship management (CRM) service that delivers real-time [...] (Source: Dark Daily)
Source: Dark Daily - April 24, 2013 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: jude Tags: Digital Pathology Instruments & Equipment Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Operations Laboratory Pathology Management & Operations 360-degree view business inte Source Type: news

Immune Cells Discovered That Hint At Eczema Cause
Sydney researchers have discovered a new type of immune cell in skin that plays a role in fighting off parasitic invaders such as ticks, mites, and worms, and could be linked to eczema and allergic skin diseases. The team from the Immune Imaging and T cell Laboratories at the Centenary Institute worked with colleagues from SA Pathology in Adelaide, the Malaghan Institute in Wellington, New Zealand and the USA... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eczema / Psoriasis Source Type: news

Dietary medium chain triglycerides prevent nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
(Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine) The incidence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) associated with obesity is increasing rapidly and is a major source of liver pathology. A new study from investigators at the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service's Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center suggest dietary substitution of saturated fat in the form of medium chain triglycerides (MCT) for polyunsaturated fats can prevent progression of NAFLD-associated liver injury and that MCT containing oils could be a new NAFLD therapy. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 24, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Inhalation injury: epidemiology, pathology, treatment strategies - Dries DJ, Endorf FW.
Lung injury resulting from inhalation of smoke or chemical products of combustion continues to be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Combined with cutaneous burns, inhalation injury increases fluid resuscitation requirements, incidence of... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - April 23, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

Cell-Permeable Peptide Shows Promise For Controlling Cardiovascular Disease
This study is published in the May 2013 issue of The American Journal of Pathology. Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the arterial and vascular wall... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart Disease Source Type: news

Molecular Genetic Pathology
(Source: Springer Medicine titles)
Source: Springer Medicine titles - April 23, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: Pathology Source Type: news

The Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation supports CNIO research
(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas (CNIO)) A consortium led by the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre's researcher María S. Soengas -- Programme Director of the Centre´s Molecular Pathology Programme and Leader of the CNIO Melanoma Group -- has been selected to receive funding from the Melanoma Research Alliance, the most important private international melanoma research foundation, in order to advance research in melanoma. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 23, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

This Day in Science History - April 24 - Gerhard Domagk
April 24 marks the passing of the first person to refuse the award of a Nobel Prize. Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist who discovered the first sulfa drug, Prontosil, had antibacterial properties and he began the practice of antibiotic treatment of disease and infection. This would earn him the 1939 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Passing up the prize was not Domagk's idea. When the Nobel Committee announced his prize, he was arrested and forced to give up the prize by the Nazi regime. Hitler's government was embarrassed just four years before by the Nobel Foundation when they awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize to Carl von ...
Source: About.com Chemistry - April 23, 2013 Category: Chemistry Source Type: news

Can BRCA Expression Predict Response to Chemotherapy?Can BRCA Expression Predict Response to Chemotherapy?
Dr. Maurie Markman reviews a recent paper looking at whether differences in BRCA expression might predict response to IP vs IV chemotherapy in patients with ovarian cancer. Medscape Oncology (Source: Medscape Pathology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pathology Headlines - April 22, 2013 Category: Pathology Tags: Hematology-Oncology Commentary Source Type: news

Method makes it easier to separate useful stem cells from 'problem' ones for therapies
Pluripotent stem cells can turn, or differentiate, into any cell type in the body, such as nerve, muscle or bone, but inevitably some of these stem cells fail to differentiate and end up mixed in with their newly differentiated daughter cells. Because these remaining pluripotent stem cells can subsequently develop into unintended cell types — bone cells among blood, for instance — or form tumors known as teratomas, identifying and separating them from their differentiated progeny is of utmost importance in keeping stem cell–based therapeutics safe. Now, UCLA scientists have discovered ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 22, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Dietary Patterns and Odds of Type 2 Diabetes in LebanonDietary Patterns and Odds of Type 2 Diabetes in Lebanon
This study looked at the comparative risk of a traditional Mediterranean diet vs. a diet of more refined foods in the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Lebanese adults. Nutrition and Metabolism (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - April 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pathology & Lab Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news

CAP Celebrates Medical Laboratory Professionals
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week is April 22-26. Join us in spreading the gratitude for your vital contributions to patient care. (Source: CAP Important Announcements and News)
Source: CAP Important Announcements and News - April 22, 2013 Category: Pathology Source Type: news

Forbes Tells the World How Medicare Bollixed Molecular Diagnostic Test Payments, Leaving Nation’s Clinical Laboratories Unpaid for Months
Columnist Steve Gottlieb, M.D., wrote that “This sort of bungling may be without precedent, even for the Medicare agency” Since the beginning of the year, most Medicare contractors and private health insurers have not paid clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology practices for molecular diagnostic test claims coded to the 114 new molecular test CPT codes. [...] (Source: Dark Daily)
Source: Dark Daily - April 22, 2013 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: jude Tags: Coding, Billing, and Collections Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Operations Laboratory Pathology Managed Care Contracts & Payer Reimbursement and Palmetto GBA Cahaba GBA Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Servi Source Type: news

Diagnosis: Human
The over-prescription of medication for "human experiences" is causing some to question whether or not life experience is being considered pathology. I wonder whether or not it is sometimes the starting point for unnecessary addiction.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - April 19, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Constance Scharff, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Child Development Happiness Health Source Type: news