Influenza season has begun
Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Scotland, Spain and Switzerland are the first European countries affected by an increase of the influenza virus. Other countries will follow over the coming weeks and should prepare.
Top-Class scientific lectures and lively discussions in Heidelberg
Four times a year, the “Leica Scientific Forum — Advances in Life Science” offers top-class lectures, with eminently respectable speakers in the field of medicine like Noble prize winner Professor Dr. Erwin Neher from the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, who was guest speaker at the last Forum this year on December 5. The Forum – which takes place in Heidelberg…
Live cell imaging
Bio-imaging Facility at the University of Manchester ordered three new Nikon eC1 confocal microscopes.
Molecular diagnostics
Human genetic testing centre gains international quality accreditation.
Automated analyses
Advia LabCell Modular Automation Systems integrate clinical chemistry, immunodiagnostics, haematology, urinalysis, and other hospital and laboratory areas.
Analysis made easier
The Leica DMD108 has been designed to ease the growing workload in histopathology laboratories.
Blood test may detect Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear
A new blood test is under development that has detected two kinds of proteins found in people suffering Alzheimer's.
Electro-medical safety tester meets new IEC 62353 standard
Rigel Medical, part of the Seaward Group, has launched a new biomedical electrical safety analyser.
Ever expanding rapid diagnostic products
Inverness Medical Innovations develops and manufactures rapid diagnostic products for use in preventive as well as interventional therapies.
Community acquired pneumonia
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a major health problem globally. A new test now quickly identify pathogens. BinaxNOW tests quickly identify pathogens
DNA copying
Researchers have made a significant new discovery about how cells copy their genetic information accurately and efficiently to avoid cancers and other diseases.
Advancements in Telepathology
Professor Werner Schlake, President of the German professional association of pathologists, described teleconsultation as the most significant application of telepathology.
Stem Cells
By Professor Gustav Steinhoff MD, director of the Department for Cardiac Surgery, and Christof Stamm MD, co-ordinator of clinical studies, at Rostock University, Germany
Appendicitis complicated by chickenpox
Surgeons Sergey V Stonogin, specialist in infectious cases, Eugeny V Dvorovenko, Head of Emergency Surgery, and Vladimir A Chaplin, endoscopy specialist - report on results from their study to assess the most effective, safe combination of antibiotics to treat patients with acute appendicitis complicated by chickenpox
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Bologna - The University Hospital S.Orsola-Malpighi has 1,800 beds and is one of the largest to install the DNLab management system. With 150 workstations connected to the LIS and over 50 analysers, each day, the two laboratories (central and microbiology) receive almost 3,000 orders and carry out over nine million tests annually. Hospital wards and departments are connected via Web to the LIS…
In command of all critical events
Access and monitoring of multiple lab instruments from a centralised location.
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment
Rationale and effectiveness in the non-healing diabetic foot ulcer patient. By Peter HJ Mueller and Robert A Warriner III
Bacteria die on stainless steel
To establish which materials allow pathogens to survived best, micro-organisms such as bacteria living in wet and dry environments, pathogenic fungi and the bacterium Escherichia coli, have been studied during comparative tests undertaken at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Leipzig.
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Diabetes-Nanny
About 25,000 German children are diabetic, and numbers are increasing rapidly. Specialists in childhood diabetes gathered at a meeting held by the Dianino Foundation during the 41st Annual Meeting of German Diabetes Society (DDG), to discuss `Diabetes-Nanni´, a programme in which female diabetes advisers receive additional psychology training to care for diabetes-affected families in their homes.…
The 1st International Congress of Respiratory Biology (ICRB)
You are invited to be part of a forum to bring respiratory biological research together, to discuss and build. Ours is a growing and vital discipline.
Test identifies patients who benefit from targeted cancer drugs
USA - A new laboratory test - EGFRx, developed by the Weisenthal Cancer Group* - has accurately identified patients who would benefit from treatment with the molecularly-targeted anti-cancer therapies gefitinib (Iressa, AstraZeneca) and erlotinib (Tarceva, Genentech), according to clinical data published at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
New Microarray technology to check bird 'flu
USA - A new technology, named glycan microarray, can identify pathogens in a few hours and give advance warning of the ability of a virus to infect humans.