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Improved Quantitative Selectivity of Clenbuterol in Human Urine using High Resolution on the TSQ Quantum Mass Spectrometer

...bolic effects and could be used as a drug of abuse in athletes and livestock for its muscle growth stimulant properties. It also raises the body temperature and hence facilitates fat tissue catabolism. Due to Clenbuterol having these anabolic properties, it must be routinely monitor...

Simultaneous Screening of 23 Drugs of Abuse in Oral Fluid Using an LC/MS/MS Method

... screen post mortem patient specimens for drugs of abuse currently employ immuno- or colourimetric assays. ...with conventional approaches, testing for drugs of abuse is done separately for each of several classes of compounds (e.g. opiates, benzodiazepines, etc.), w...

Detection of Morphine and Morphine-Glucuronide in Saliva or Urine with a Rapid and Simple Method Without Derivatization on the Varian 500-MS

... Introduction Testing for drugs of abuse (DoA) is becoming more prevalent in various enviro...lucuronide (Cerilliant, Little Rock, TX). Drugs of abuse urine control was obtained from Utak Laboratories, Inc (Valencia, CA). OnTrak OraTube was obtained f...

Analysis of Nitrofurans Metabolites by Positive Ion Electrospray LC/MS/MS

... are a much better marker for the detection of the abuse of these antibiotics. The metabolites of furazolidone, furaltadone, nitrofurantoine and nitrofurazone are 3-amino-2-oxazolidinone (AOZ), 3-amino-5-methylmorpholino-2-oxazolidinone (AMOZ), 1-aminohydantoin (AH), and semicarbazide (SC), respecti...

Screening of Corticosteroids in Urine by Negative Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization LC/MS/MS

...be collected in a non-invasive way. Therefore, the abuse of corticosteroids is analyzed using urine samples. A simple and sensitive LC/MS/MS method for the screening of 17 corticosteroids is described below. The method is able to detect corticosteroids from the doping control urine samples at 20 ng/...

High tech in the U.K. Do the Brits forgo Web 2.0?

... anti-spam market, giving ISPs the means to tackle abuse at the source. A two-year-old start up has created a platform that translates any Web page into the spoken word. There is the company taking an open-standards approach to home automation, making energy conservation and creature comforts affordabl...

Are your business and technology goals aligned?

...ein: Protecting your business against online brand abuse Mike Klein: Will technology improve healthcare delivery? Mike Klein: A missing link in innovation Mike Klein: Are you a citizen of the "Google Nation?" Mike Klein is the president and editorial director of the Wisconsin Technology Net...

Viewing the Internet as a free-for-all can be costly

...expensive to use and difficult to regulate, e-mail abuse and Internet fraud concerns will be commonplace. Internet-savvy marketers proceed cautiously and ethically to safeguard their reputation. According to a recent study, nearly 94 percent of all electronic mail on the Internet is unsolicited spam . Th...

Democracy and the Net - How American ideals are quietly influencing the world

... on terrorism can look past the threat of Internet abuse to see its democratic potential, surely the World Summit on the Information Society should be able to do the same. Tom Still is president of the Wisconsin Technology Council. He is the former associate editor of the Wisconsin State Journal in Madis...

The use of e-prescribing and electronic health records is accelerating

...chnology meeting the criteria, because the risk of abuse will be lessened and the benefits heightened after interoperability is achieved. CMS is soliciting comments on the proposed standards for these exceptions. OIG's Proposed Rules The MMA-mandated Anti-Kickback safe harbor is being implemented in sepa...

Healthcare needs of hurricane-hit region being monitored by West Allis company's system

...munity health centers, mental health and substance abuse facilities, federal medical shelters and a number of other facilities in the region. Information on facility status, critical needs and available resources has been monitored and reported daily. Surveillance information has been collected in conjunct...

Cloning ban comes before Wisconsin Senate on Tuesday

...pro-life forces dead set against what they view as abuse of human life. "We feel that investments should be in research that is moral," said Barbara Lyons, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life, arguing that embryonic cell research is an unethical exploitation of human life. "For example, we could...

Beware of trademark poachers in search-engine ads

...ly protect their trademarks risk losing them. When abuse occurs (intentional or not) your company should send the other company a 'cease and desist' letter that includes the company's name, trademark, and registration numbers. Remember the goodwill You grow a mark and a brand to establish equity in a str...

More electronic gadgets, more miscommunication

...een name. In some circles this is considered child abuse but I dont care. That annoying message alert sound drives me batty. And the last thing any kid living in the good-old-U.S. of A.D.D needs is yet another distraction. The Blackberry or Crackberry as its nickname suggests is a dangerously addictive to...

Wisconsin crisis hotline gets Web-based integration

... community service centers for help with substance abuse and mental health. In Wisconsin, 211 functions as a statewide call center, putting together regional call centers to provide increased services. The CTKs FirstCallNet software provides a resource directory for the 211 calling center, allowing caller...

John Kerry talks technology

...cation to protect employees from waste, fraud, and abuse and we need an even greater level of transparency...we made it clear that if theres an overreach or an abuse of that authority, if the law is not used appropriately with respect to the war on terrorism, were g...

Healthcare Technology - On top of the national agenda

...proximately $1.2 billion we collect from fraud and abuse fines, from doctors and providers that do something fraudulent to the federal government, in order to get dollars. Im suggesting, but have not been able to get support yet, that we take 50 percent of those dollars and set up a mini-Halliburton law or...

WTN Interview: HHS Secretary calls for $550 million health care fund to reduce deaths caused by medical errors

...proximately $1.2 billion we collect from fraud and abuse fines, from doctors and providers that do something fraudulent to the federal government, in order to get dollars. Im suggesting, but have not been able to get support yet, that we take 50 percent of those dollars and set up a mini-Halliburton law o...

Lifting federal limits on stem cell research would speed search for cures

...hat not only slows research, but that could invite abuse is stem cell research takes place well outside regulated channels. The chances are slim that stem cell researchers can attract enough private dollars to finance their work, because it will take years to produce a marketable product. If society wants...

Unwrapping Political Perks for the Holidays

... with allegations that he enriched himself through abuse of public authority and employees. George is a lawyer. Santa hopes he finds a counselor who gives him better advice than he gave himself. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson: His first gift package came when Congress approved a M...

Wisconsin to Get Serious about E-Government

...ure that people in protected groups like domestic abuse victims cannot be located through these records. There is also the problem that this could be a means of people coming up with mass marketing lists. Additional legislation would be necessary before we could make this information available on the pub...

Diamond Film May Enable Critical New Sensors For Bioterror

...ical weapons or agents of terror. "You can really abuse it and it doesn't care," Hamers says. "The diamond films are chemically durable and they are electrochemically durable." In a battlefield environment such as the ones U.S. troops may encounter in a war with Iraq, a country accused of developing biol...