STAT in Medical News

Sperm Cell Insights May Aid Stem Cell Research

...ered male fruit flies to reduce the activity of two proteins called Jak and stat in the testis. The researchers reduced the stem cell population in the flie...ell therapies. The Hopkins researchers now want to determine how Jak and stat control dedifferentiation. "We don't know if a cell is just reversing al...

ONRAD Announces Newly Bundled Services for a Single Package Price

...help with overflow coverage, telelocums coverage, or sub specialty coverage. Once the service is set up, turnaround times average seventeen minutes on stat cases. ONRAD does not charge standby or setup fees, and boasts one of the highest accuracy rates in the industry. If a facility does not desire t...

ALIMTA(R) (pemetrexed for injection) Receives Positive Opinion From CHMP as Maintenance Therapy for Nonsquamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

...ertainties, see Lilly's fi l ings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Lilly undertakes no duty to update forward-looking stat e ments. (1) World Health Organization, Gender in Lung Cancer and Smoking Research, Department of Gender, Women and Health, 2003, http:/...

Health and Advocacy Leaders Mobilize to Bring Attention to Atrial Fibrillation, a Costly and Misunderstood Cardiovascular Disease

... (AF Stat), and announce the formation of the AF stat Working Group. This first-of-its-kind, national i..." said Senator Bill Frist, M.D., who joined the AF stat Working Group in the role of health policy advisor... Medicaid budgets. A collaborative effort like AF stat will help uncover better ways to address this mana...

NuVasive Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...eness(R). NuVasive c autions y ou that stat e m e nts includ e d in this press r e lea... facts are forw a rd - looking stat e m e nts that invol v e ris k ... e d by such forward - looking stat e m e nt s . The potential ris k s...

Corepoint Health Launches New Product Suite Focused on Enhancing Healthcare Operations & Metrics

...ased system to alert key decision makers on specified data elements - e.g., stat orders, lab test results, or specific codes. "Corepoint Health is p...tion Points, we are able to communicate immediately to a radiologist that a stat order is ready. This solution assists us in enhancing our turnaround times...

Abbott Announces Required Offer to Repurchase Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes of Its AMO Subsidiary

... A Caution Concerning Forward- L ooking Statements Some stat e m e nts in this ne w s relea s e may be ...ed not to rely on these for w ard- l ook i ng stat e m e nts. A M O disc l a i ms any i nten t o ...

Polymedco Introduces Point of Care Test for Recurrent Bladder Cancer Detection

...ed to announce the direct availability of the BTA stat (R) test from our sales force -- The BTA stat (R) test is a point of care technology for the ear...igen in voided urine. The specificity of the BTA stat (R) test was 93 - 95% in patients with non-genitou...

MedQuist Introduces SpeechQ for Radiology Integrated with RadWorkFlow

...and data from multiple RIS and PACS, and logically queues those studies to the appropriate radiologist for interpretation based on site-defined rules. stat orders are accelerated through the queue, and the issue of "lost" studies is eliminated. For those radiologists who support multiple facilities and ...

Urgent Care Provider NextCare Opens First Immediate Care Clinic in Texas

...f Georgetown Georgetown, TX (PRWEB) September 25, 2008 -- Urgent care provider NextCare (www.nextcare.com), after acquiring stat Med Emergent Care, has opened its first ever immediate care clinic in Texas. The new NextCare clinic will provide the local community of Georgetown w...

Lumension Security Receives Frost & Sullivan 2008 Global Market Penetration Leadership Award

...ulnerability Assessment market with the acquisition of Harris Corporation's stat Guardian Vulnerability Management Suite in 2007. With the combination of L...sion Security's industry leading patch and remediation capabilities and the stat agentless scanning technology, Lumension Security is the first in the indus...

New WaveSense Presto(TM) and Pro(TM) Glucose Meters to Simplify Testing

...YSI reference. Result is for reference concentrations greater than or equal to 75 mg/dL. Laboratory Standard is a Yellow Springs Instrument (YSI) 2300 stat Plus Blood Glucose Analyzer. WaveSense; Presto; Pro; KeyNote; WaveSense Jazz; and Zero-Click are trademarks of AgaMatrix, Inc. ...

Illinois Radiologists Self-Edit Reports, Reduce Turnaround Time with SpeechQ for Radiology(TM)

...ppropriate radiologist for review and signature. With SpeechQ, average report turnaround time has been reduced from 61/2 hours to 3 hours, and TAT for stat and ED reports is now five minutes. Dr. James Studlo, medical director of Imaging Services and chief of the medical staff at Provena Mercy, comments...

Vital Health Technologies, Inc. / Caribbean American Health Resorts Inc. Acquires Momentum Medical Group, Inc.

...ry and basic radiology are instantly available in office while more complex stat services can also be arranged while the patient is attended. 24 hour access...ng the same shared resources. Fifth, digital communication is available for stat services and for real time data transmission, processing and analysis. Last...

New Batch of Lupus Genes Discovered

...ey also confirmed other genetic regions already associated with the disease. Some of the genes that had been identified previously, such as PTPN22 and stat 4, are associated with other autoimmune diseases such a rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes, the researchers noted. "It is exactly the thing I...

Z-shaped incision enhances minimally invasive surgery

...mach wall for a while before exiting near an organ to be operated on. The endoscope essentially charts a Z-shaped path. This new technique, known as stat (self-approximating transluminal access technique), has two main advantages according to Moyer. There is significantly less bleeding involved and the ...

Z-shaped incision enhances minimally-invasive surgery

...mach wall for a while before exiting near an organ to be operated on. The endoscope essentially charts a Z-shaped path. This new technique, known as stat (self-approximating transluminal access technique), has two main advantages according to Moyer. There is significantly less bleeding involved and the ...

The genes involved in rheumatoid arthritis identified

... American researchers have also used the same material to examine the significance of a specific area of the genome. They found that yet another gene, stat 4, could be linked to the disease. The previously studied genes and the newly discovered TRAF-C5 and STAT4 genes are each important in its own way...

India To Estimate The Number Of Children Infected With HIV/AIDS

...treatment of paediatric HIV. The growing concerns that obstacles are preventing anti-HIV therapy from reaching children, is the primary reason for the stat of this exercise. The World Health Organisation and Unicef are of the estimate that 660,000 HIV-infected children, younger than 15 years, are in...

FDA Approves Novel Creation of Imitrex? Injection for Migraine

...nd Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a creation of the Imitrex Injection that enables patients to consume a 4mg dosage, // named as the Imitrex stat dose System ? used to treat severe migraines in adults in the presence or absence of aura. Migraine is known to be a common ailment for as many a...