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FDA Approves New Test For Screening Infection In Babies

...t on women in labor during the clinical trial. Lab technicians also tried out the test to screen pregnant women prior to labor. At UF, about 240 women were screened with the Cepheid test, Edwards said. "The test seems to perform quite well," Edwards said. Contact: April Frawley Birdwell afrawley@vpha.healt...

Medical Center to Test Methods of Improving Cardiac Arrest, Trauma Survival

...eiving hospitals, paramedics and emergency medical technicians in the BioTel System will begin administering the new interventions on-site or in the ambulance. BioTel, a coalition of emergency medicine providers serving more than a dozen Dallas area cities, receives medical oversight from UT Southwestern's emerg...

Dengue Claims its First Victim in Kolkata

...ths. The civic body will also employ laboratory technicians in malaria and dengue-prone areas such as Jodhpur Park, Dhakuria, Lake Gardens and Anwar Shah Road, all in south Kolkata. Dengue claimed 12 lives in the city during the last monsoon. (Source: IANS)...

FAO Prepares Seychelles to Tackle Bird Flu Outbreak

... active participation. In case the locally trained technicians are not able to clearly distinguish any case then they can send samples to overseas laboratories or the reference laboratory. Mr Moustache. Moustache was very happy to know that international assistance would also extend their support in tackling the...

Apollo to Open Super-specialty Hospital in Oman by Year-end

...derabad in India. Kumar said nurses, paramedics, technicians and super-specialty consultants would be recruited from Apollo hospitals in India. The total number of new recruits, including doctors, is expected to be 75 in the initial phase. There are over 300,000 Indians residing in Oman. Currently, the AMC...

Technology at its nano best: hand-held lab-on-a-chip for blood tests

...te many samples and multiple tests, so to be safe, technicians take more blood from a patient than is actually needed. Since our goal is to assess blood composition on a molecular level, we only need a tiny amount. By miniaturizing the counting machine, we’re able to take a smaller sample, making the device a po...

Drug Combinations Could Be Dangerous

...n enormous database must be assembled, a task that technicians in Germany are only just beginning. Patients too must be wary of interactions on their own. For example, taking certain heart medicines with certain laxatives can be problematic, points out Ursula Sellerberg of the Coalition of German Pharmacy Asso...

Married Life Can Be Affected By Snoring

...ouple spends the night in a sleep laboratory where technicians determine each partner's quality and quantity of sleep. Following two weeks of treatment, the diagnostic tests and surveys are repeated. For patients participating in the study, the Center offers treatment using continuous positive airway pressure....

Apollo And Stanford Team To Train Emergency Medical Technicians

...tional programme for training of emergency medical technicians in India//. The one-year full time programme would be conducted at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad. Candidates who have passed Intermediate or an equivalent examination are eligible to enroll for the new educational program. Apollo Hospitals, in a stat...

Microwave radiation has no hazards

...ed to the high levels of radar waves that the Navy technicians were exposed to. Tarone explained that the finding that highly exposed veterans lived longer than men in the general population likely results from the "healthy soldier" effect. People have to pass physical exams to enter the Navy, he said, and must ...

Micro-camera provides new breast imaging technique

... cancer. The research team included Hollywood film technicians who worked alongside Dr Nicolas Beechey-Newham and colleagues from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund’s clinical oncology unit at Guy’s Hospital in London to produce the “micro-camera”. // The camera – small enough to enter the opening in a nipple ...

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