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Apple & Donate Life America Bring National Organ Donor Registration to iPhone
Sep 30, 2016Cupertino, CA and Richmond, VA — Apple and Donate Life America announced today that, for the first time ever, iPhone users will be able to sign up to be an organ, eye and tissue donor right from the Health app with the release of iOS ...
Tags: Apple and Donate Life America, Health app, organ donor registration
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Gene Editing Removes Major Barrier to Pig-to-Human Organ Transplant
Dec 29, 2015Thanks to a powerful new gene-editing technique, scientists have overcome a major hurdle for humans to receive life-saving organ transplants from pigs. In a paper in the U.S. journal Science this week, the researchers described using the ...
Tags: Gene Editing, Organ Transplant
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CareDx Intends to Make an IPO of Common Stock with The Intent of Realizing $50 Million.
Jun 13, 2014CareDx. which two weeks ago entered into an agreement to acquire ImmuMetrix Inc., has announced that it intends to make an initial public offering (IPO) of common stock with the intent of realizing $50 million. Brisbane, CA–based ...
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Organ Transplant Patients Routinely Receive Drugs
Mar 5, 2014Organ transplant patients routinely receive drugs that stop their immune systems from attacking newly implanted hearts, livers, kidneys or lungs, which the body sees as foreign. But new research at Washington University School of Medicine ...
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Free-Standing Organ Recovery Centers Could Markedly Improve Efficiency and Reduce Costs
Mar 5, 2014Free-standing organ recovery centers could markedly improve efficiency and reduce costs associated with deceased organ donation, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation. The study's findings have ...
Tags: Organ Recovery, organ donation, Reduce Costs
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Tippi MacKenzie Has Long Known That Conducting Surgery on a Fetus to Correct a Problems
Feb 8, 2014As a fetal surgeon at UC San Francisco, Tippi MacKenzie, MD, has long known that conducting surgery on a fetus to correct a problems such as spina bifida often results in preterm labor and premature birth. Now, MacKenzie and her UCSF ...
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Sterling Insurance Has Expanded Its Critical Condition Plan Offering
May 17, 2013Sterling Insurance has expanded its Critical Condition plan offering in 18 additional US states, marking the availability of the new type of insurance to 31 states. The plan comprises 11 critical illnesses, which includes cancer, stroke, ...
Tags: Sterling Insurance, Insurance
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UHB NHS Foundation Trust Was Overloaded with Case Notes and Referrals in Paper Form
Dec 24, 2012The University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust was overloaded with case notes and referrals in paper form, resulting in misplacements of documents and unnecessary retesting of patients due to lost results. It decided to ...
Tags: paper form, EMC, case notes, content management system
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The Federal Government Are Gradually Moving Their It Operations to The Cloud in a Shift
Dec 20, 2012In response to a White House mandate, the agencies and departments of the federal government are gradually moving their IT operations to the cloud in a shift that could save billions of dollars, while also raising serious security concerns. ...
Tags: Cloud, White House, federal government, IT operations, security concerns
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Health Canada Has Approved Roche's Fully Automated Test
Dec 17, 2012Health Canada has approved Roche's fully automated test, designed to assess a patient's viral load of cytomegalovirus (CMV). The COBAS AmpliPrep / COBAS TaqMan CMV assay is the first approved test, which is standardized to the WHO ...
Tags: Health Canada, CMV, clinical trial
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OLI Has Signed a Supply Agreement with CellTrend
Dec 4, 2012One Lambda (OLI ) has signed a supply agreement with CellTrend, which allows OLI to market and distribute the Immuno-Assay product, EIA. EIA is used for Quantitative Determination of anti-Angiotensin II Receptor 1 (AT1) Antibodies. The ...
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Sterling Insurance Would Provide Lump-Sum Coverage Plans
Nov 29, 2012Sterling Insurance has introduced a new insurance plan, Sterling Critical Condition, to provide lump-sum coverage plans to the insured upon diagnosis of a covered condition. Underwritten by Sterling Life Insurance Company, the plan ...
Tags: Sterling Insurance, insurance plan, lump sum coverage, insurance
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FDA Grants PMA to Roche's New Fully Automated COBAS Ampliprep Test to Quantify CMV DNA
Jul 6, 2012The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval (PMA) to Roche's new fully automated COBAS AmpliPrep / COBAS TaqMan CMV test to quantify cytomegalovirus' (CMV) DNA in human plasma specimens. The real-time ...
Tags: Roche, FDA, Viral Load Test, PCR-based CMV test
