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The Benefits Of Novel PSA Velocity Risk Count Testing For Prostate Cancer

February 6, 2012
A new study by NYU Langone Medical Center and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine shows novel PSA velocity (PSAV) risk count testing may provide a more effective way for physicians to screen men for clinically significant prostate cancer. The new study, published online by the British Journal of Urology ...

Bone Density Testing – ASBMR Response To NEJM Article

February 4, 2012
The recently reported study on bone density testing in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) may have inadvertently resulted in confusion about the use and recommended frequency of an important diagnostic tool used for osteoporosis, a very serious condition that affects many women...

New research confirms need for lung cancer testing

February 2, 2012
Different kinds of lung cancer behave in different ways, suggesting they are fundamentally different diseases. According to a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in Cancer, the official journal of the American Cancer Society, different subgroups of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) show distinct patterns of spread in the ...

Post-Liver Transplantation Survival Outcomes – Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Helps Predict

February 2, 2012
According to a study in the February edition of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a specific predictor of 90-day survival after liver transplantation. The findings reveal that the CPET measurement, ...

New research confirms need for lung cancer testing

February 2, 2012
AURORA, Colo. (Feb. 2, 2012) Different kinds of lung cancer behave in different ways, suggesting they are fundamentally different diseases. According to a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in Cancer , the official journal of the American Cancer Society, different subgroups of non-small cell lung cancer ...

New research confirms need for lung cancer testing

February 2, 2012
(University of Colorado Denver) Different kinds of lung cancer behave in different ways, suggesting they are fundamentally different diseases. According to a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in Cancer, the official journal of the American Cancer Society, different subgroups of non-small cell lung cancer show distinct patterns of ...

Post-Liver Transplantation Survival May Be Predicted By Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing

February 1, 2012
Researchers from the U.K. determined that preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a specific predictor of 90-day survival following liver transplantation. Study results available in the February issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, shows that ...

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing may predict post-liver transplantation survival

February 1, 2012
Researchers from the U.K. determined that preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a specific predictor of 90-day survival following liver transplantation. Study results available in the February issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, shows that ...

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing may predict post-liver transplantation survival

January 31, 2012
Researchers from the U.K. determined that preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a specific predictor of 90-day survival following liver transplantation. Study results available in the February issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, shows that ...

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing may predict post-liver transplantation survival

January 31, 2012
(Wiley-Blackwell) Researchers from the UK determined that preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing is a specific predictor of 90-day survival following liver transplantation. Study results available in the February issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, shows that ...

Premier healthcare alliance awards new agreement for near patient testing – drugs of abuse

January 30, 2012
The Premier healthcare alliance today announced a new sole source agreement for near patient testing - drugs of abuse (with or without additional tests) has been awarded to Medtox Scientific, Inc. of Saint Paul, Minn.

New Standard For Vitamin D Testing To Ensure Accurate Test Results

January 27, 2012
At a time of increasing concern about low vitamin D levels in the world's population and increased use of blood tests for the vitamin, scientists are reporting development of a much-needed reference material to assure that measurements of vitamin D levels are accurate. The report appears in ACS' journal Analytical ...