Postmortem genetic testing in sudden unexplained death: a public health laboratory experience - Rohrer CT, Lager AM, Brooks EG, Horner VL.
Sudden unexplained death in the young poses a diagnostically challenging situation for practicing autopsy pathologists, especially in the absence of anatomic and toxicological findings. Postmortem genetic testing may identify pathogenic variants in the dec... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Researchers Find AI Improves Breast Cancer Detection by 20%
Initial analyses also shows AI screening lowers associated radiologist image reading workload by half Both radiologists and pathologists analyze images to make cancer diagnoses, although one works with radiological images and the other works with tissue biopsies as the source of information. Now, advances in artificial intelligence (AI) for cancer screenings means both radiologists and […]
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Source: Dark Daily - August 25, 2023 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: swallask Tags: Digital Pathology International Laboratory News Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment Laboratory Resources Laboratory Testing Source Type: news
Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease Following COVID-19 Vaccination Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease Following COVID-19 Vaccination
How common is Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, or histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, following COVID-19 vaccination? Is there a causal relationship?American Journal of Clinical Pathology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - August 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pathology & Lab Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
S2 Episode 3: Does Your Patient Have IgA Nephropathy? S2 Episode 3: Does Your Patient Have IgA Nephropathy?
Experts Drs Matthew A. Sparks and Dana V. Rizk discuss the pathology, presentation, and management of IgA nephropathy. Looking for the latest on clinical trials and approved treatments? Tune in!Medscape (Source: Medscape Pathology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pathology Headlines - August 24, 2023 Category: Pathology Tags: Nephrology InDiscussion Source Type: news
COVID Reinfections in Nursing Home Residents a Surprise COVID Reinfections in Nursing Home Residents a Surprise
This finding was unexpected. It contradicts a widespread belief that one infection always provides robust protection against the next.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Pathology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pathology Headlines - August 24, 2023 Category: Pathology Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Watch a person unable to speak for years ‘talk’ using a new brain implant
When it comes to talking, our brain does the heavy lifting. It subconsciously directs the complex coordination of lips, tongue, throat, and jaws we need to pronounce words. And it keeps directing, even in people with paralysis or who are unable to turn these commands into speech.
Now, scientists have harnessed this phenomenon to create brain implants that transform this neural activity into text with unprecedented speed and accuracy. In two new studies—both reported today in
Nature
—the devices enabled two people to “speak” for the first time in more than a decade. The implants produced speech from ...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 23, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Amazon Expands Its Virtual Primary Care Service, including Clinical Laboratory Testing, to All 50 States along with More Locations for One Medical Clinics
Consumer demand for telehealth services and convenient healthcare locations fuels Amazon’s quest to ‘reinvent’ healthcare Amazon’s stated goal of disrupting traditional healthcare processes and workflow continues. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon built several large clinical laboratories to do its own SARS-CoV-2 testing. Then, last February, Amazon acquired One Medical, a San Francisco-based primary care provider […]
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Source: Dark Daily - August 23, 2023 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: swallask Tags: Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Resources Laboratory Sales and Marketing Laboratory Testing Source Type: news
The Maui Fires: A Forensic Pathologist's Perspective on the Aftermath
(MedPage Today) -- Death investigation in Maui County, Hawaii is managed by the police, and the chief of police is the coroner. In 2015, I interviewed for a job there: an open position for a forensic pathologist to perform autopsy death investigation... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - August 22, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Histolix Appoints Jane Elizabeth Brock, MBBS, Ph.D. to Board of Directors
Direct-to-Digital Read Pathology Pioneer Welcomes Veteran Breast Health Clinician and Professor to Renowned Team of Pathology Leaders SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Histolix, a leading developer of direct-to-digital read pathology solutions, today announced the... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - August 22, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: PER Source Type: news
GA Man Sentenced to 27 Years for $463M Genetic Test Scheme GA Man Sentenced to 27 Years for $463M Genetic Test Scheme
A Georgia man who was convicted late last year for his role in a $463 million genetic testing scheme to defraud Medicare was sentenced to 27 years in prison, a US Justice Department statement said.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pathology & Lab Medicine News Source Type: news
Study Finds Smartphones Can Be as Accurate as Pulse Oximeters at Reading Blood-Oxygen Saturation
Technology could enable patients to monitor their own oxygen levels and transmit that data to healthcare providers, including clinical laboratories Clinical laboratories may soon have a new data point to add to their laboratory information system (LIS) for doctors to review. Researchers have determined that smartphones can read blood-oxygen levels as accurately as purpose-built pulse […]
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Source: Dark Daily - August 21, 2023 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: swallask Tags: Digital Pathology Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Resources Laboratory Testing Precision Medicine Source Type: news
What Are Underlying Risk Factors for Liver Abscesses?
This study specific excluded patients with ALA or candidemia.
LA treatment is usually antibiotics and less invasive surgical techniques such as aspiration or percutaneous catheter drainage, but other treatment including resection is sometimes needed Overall mortality from LA has decreased from 15-40% to as low as 0.8% in the pediatric populations as noted above.
Learning Point
LA can occur solely because of exposure to infectious organisms but is also commonly associated with hepatobiliary pathology as well.
In Northern India study, the “[m]ajority of …children had no predisposing factors for development of LA ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - August 21, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
The doctors, dentists and anthropologists striving to identify Maui's victims
[1/2] The fire ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii, U.S., August 15, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Aug 20 (Reuters) - Inside a temporary morgue near the Maui County coroner's office, a team of specialists – including forensic pathologists, X-ray…#lahaina #maui #hawaii #mauicounty #franksebastian #mauidmort #seattle #kathrynpinneri #montgomerycounty #dmorts (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How COVID-19 Changes the Immune System
If the COVID-19 pandemic has done one thing, it’s made us all more familiar with some of the important players in the immune system. Antibodies, B cells, and T cells are among the best known parts of the body’s response to a virus like SARS-CoV-2, but they don’t act alone.
In a paper published on August 18 in the journal Cell, scientists report that innate immune cells—a critical part of the immune system activated to battle COVID-19—remain altered for at least a year after infection. The finding suggests that these cells may play a role in some of the lingering symptoms associated with Lon...
Source: TIME: Health - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
UCSF Researchers Discover Mutated Gene That Fights SARS-CoV-2 Even in Individuals with No Exposure to the Coronavirus
Findings may help clinical laboratories identify healthcare workers who could work on the front lines of the next pandemic without fear of serious infection University of California San Francisco researchers have discovered a gene mutation that enables some people’s immune system to recognize and respond to a COVID-19 infection despite having no prior exposure to […]
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Source: Dark Daily - August 16, 2023 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: swallask Tags: Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Testing Molecular Diagnostics, Genetic Testing, Whole Gene Sequencing Precision Medicine Source Type: news
