Benefits Of CLIA Waived Drug Tests

By Nathan Rodnay CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment) ... is one of the categorized laboratories testing with fulfillment of above requirements of the Act. Simple ... Act was established in 1988 to set high quality laboratory testing methods to ensure accurate [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 06:01:08

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Great Apes Debate : To be or not to be made extinct by Humans

" Europe's environment chief plans to ban laboratory tests on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans -- in a clampdown on animal testing by the drugs industry and other laboratories. But some animal welfare groups and researchers... read more [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 05:28:50

CPSIA Awareness Series - The Enchanted Cupboard

The Enchanted Cupboard on Etsy was created by homeschooling SAHM Beccijo, ... , charities, yard sales, EVERYONE! One of the worst parts of the law is the mandatory (re)testing by third party certified laboratories. The cost for the testing is overwhelming and has actually increased [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 21:26:00

Melamine Found In More Baby Formula

Melamine Found In More Baby Formula Posted on January 8, 2009 by Food Poisoning Attorney In an article published by AP writer, Martha Mendoza, ... . Separately, a third major formula maker -- Abbott Laboratories, whose brands include Similac -- told ... national safety guidelines. FDA tested 37 different Abbott Laboratories formulas [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 16:41:24

Wild claims hysteria enthusiastic commentary on internet censorship: Ludlam in Senate Estimates

... with a testing group called NX Test Laboratories to design a live pilot. * Conroy confirmed [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 09:23:45

Goodbye, 'Mr. Clean'

Sad news—House Peters Jr., the man we all know and love as Mr. Clean, passed away yesterday at the respectable age of 92 ... ;G has developed non-animal testing methods and worked to end much of its outdated testing program, even ... hidden laboratories. So as we say goodbye to Mr. Clean, we urge you to honor his memory by, say [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 21:39:40

Love, Life and Dream On...

A University of California study found that 10 per cent of all start-ups in the Silicon Valley between 1995 and 1998 were by Indians, ... IITians were considered as geek people who have no other work than analyzing and testing new ... their highly equipped laboratories to write about some fictional world is selling like hotcakes. It’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:41:00

Minority Report - Only Years Away

On December 11, the Japanese Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (Computational Neuroscience Laboratories) ... Testing “psychic abilities” by photographing “visions.” • Marketing development: learning what images “ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 23:42:27

Terrorist Prison

Eco-activist sent to secretive new prison by Camilla Mortensen Eugene Weekly 12/04/08 The federal government has begun creating special prison ... Enterprise Protection Act for his efforts to stop animal testing at Huntingdon Life Sciences laboratories. Requests for media access to McGowan by the L.A. Times and others have been denied, according [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:09:29

CMS Proposes Improvements To Cervical Cancer Proficiency Testing Program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced proposals to further improve the regulations that are in place to assure the competency ... and received specimens through interstate commerce to all laboratories in which clinical testing ... dying from cervical cancer dropped nearly 75 percent, and today, with improved testing and treatment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:00:00

Attention Lab Directors!!! The FDA is coming!!!

I have been mentioning this several times to several VC firms and to several small companies ... testing, just as they do drugs and food. This plays perfectly in President elect Obama's plan to create ... from one of our Yale laboratories which says "THIS TEST WAS DEVELOPED AND ITS PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:14:32

Some IDIOT is in big trouble!

I don’t know if you have been following this, but white powder has recently showed up at a few Governors’ offices….some idiot (in Dallas?) ... powder substance has been forwarded to local laboratories for further testing. The FBI has contacted [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 00:31:14

Press Release :: Printing Devices Using Zoran’s IPS(TM) Software Solution Win Industry Awards Again in 2008

SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwire - January 15, 2009) - Zoran Corporation (NASDAQ: ZRAN) announced that 41 printer, copier and multifunction peripheral (MFP) ... by the independent industry testing and research organizations, BERTL and Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI ... said Hugo Palacios, Senior Analyst, BERTL. “Our rigorous testing fully validated that devices [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:26:37

Here's why "Militarism" Is Secure As The Underlying USer National Ontology

I got the following e-mail from New Mexico's other Senator, the one not tarnished with shit ensuing from the US Attorney-firing scandal, ... and defense. Our state is home to two national labs, three military bases, an Army testing range ... national laboratories. Sandia and Los Alamos national labs are critical not only to our national security [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 23:59:19

Windows Mobile 6.1 earns Common Criteria Certification

After this week's shocking revelation that Windows Mobile 7 has been delayed to the back half of 2009, and all the hoopla surrounding Android, ... of their products, and testing laboratories can evaluate the products to determine if they actually meet [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 01:56:53

Trade Supply: London, England

Business Warehouse – Retail Goods Wholesale Wholesale Trading Supply Hong Kong (Asia), United Kingdom, & U.S.A ... , cosmetics, photography, gifts, laboratories testing equipment’s, shoes, kitchen and homewares, fitness [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 10:37:01

Thursday morning digest: vets and kids edition

The Washington Post reports in Shinseki Says He Would Modernize VA: If confirmed, Shinseki said, ... that testing laboratories need to upgrade their equipment and hire additional staff. "However, we need [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:22:48

2009-01-17 Saturday - Deployment Tool Research

I'm doing some further research on deployment tools, here are a few links and resources I've come across recently:Colin Low (with updates by Julio Guijarro: SmartFrog Tutorial - (Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol)Let ... of times until testing is complete.Ritu Sabharwal: Grid Infrastructure Deployment using SmartFrog [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 23:03:00

Afton Chemical Opens R&D Lab In Shanghai

U.S. based Afton Chemical Corporation is opening a new facility in Shanghai in early 2009 ... square meters of space including nine fully equipped laboratories for analytical development and testing. The facility is close to two leading universities. Afton is also opening ... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:31:58

Eleven U.S. Embassies Receive Suspicious White Powder

ABC News' Kirit Radia Reports: Several U.S. embassies in Europe received envelopes this week containing a suspicious white powder, ... has been forwarded to local laboratories for further testing. The FBI has contacted the governors’ offices [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 14:58:44

CGSSD Meeting Highlights - DNA and DVDs

I attended the Computer Genealogy Society of San Diego (CGSSD) meeting today at UCSD - the program description was posted here ... research. She provided a three-page handout with a glossary of terms and a list of DNA laboratories for Y-DNA and mtDNA testing. There were about 25 in attendance, and Corlee answered many questions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 23:16:49

Weather Alert - Frozen Pipes in Birmingham

With the cold weather this week in Birmingham, Alabama, ... to use products approved by an independent testing organization, such as Underwriters Laboratories Keep [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:42:07

USA: 'Natural' remedies need oversight, feels physician at Hoover Institution

. Voluntary oversight of herbals and botanicals would better protect consumers' health LOS ANGELES, ... . One apposite model is the Underwriters Laboratories, a large, nonprofit organization that tests [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 07:57:52

Congratulations! You picked the right day to give up cocaine

Because apparently it is laced with deworming medicine and it will kill you, says the New Mexico Department of Health ... and pathologists at the University of New Mexico Hospital and TriCore Reference Laboratories ... cases. The Department can provide guidance on testing patients for levamisole on a case by case basis [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:48:06

M LAB Travel Collection with Insane Levels of Active Ingredients - Does it work?

M Lab Travel Kit M LAB is a line of products designed by Milbar Laboratories, ... to the brand, “Professional clinical testing has validated the results and expectations of the M LAB™ [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 16:09:46

10th Anniversary of the Cyberspace Underwriters Laboratories

It was 10 years ago this week that Tan from the L0pht wrote Cyberspace Underwriters Laboratories to describe a vision of third party testing and ... like Barclays are using with their software providers. Barclays uses Veracode’s testing services to get 3rd [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:06:58

Ovarian cancer screening — a developing story that can help us, too

Today, one of the nation’s largest commercial clinical laboratories took a new ovarian cancer screening blood test off the market after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had issued the company [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 22:00:00

'Artificial Intuition,' Earthquake Detectors vie for Pentagon Prize

Everyone from Darpa to the National Security Initiative seems to be dangling pots of cash in front of inventors, ... is Seattle's Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, which is looking for the Holy Grail ... : Brain Fingerprinting testing can determine quickly and accurately whether or not specific knowledge [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 15:57:31

Friesian Stallion in Wisconsin Tests Positive for CEM

From the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture: A stallion quarantined in Outagamie County, ... reproductive disease of horses. The National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa ... states, will be quarantined for testing. Wisconsin State Veterinarian Dr. Robert Ehlenfeldt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:32:24

Charleston begins Bioequivalence Study of CL-108

Charleston begins Bioequivalence Study of CL-108 Phil Yanov South Carolina Charleston Laboratories, Inc, ... in the optimal formulation of this drug, it is ready for testing in man,” said Dr. Bernard Schachtel, Chief Medical Officer at Charleston Laboratories. “This Phase I study is being conducted to identify [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 13:32:59

Ranbaxy promoters bring group firms on Religare platform

The group's testing lab chain SRL Ranbaxy has been renamed as Religare Super Laboratories. RanAir, its charter aviation company will be known as Religare Voyages. About 15 group companies, including [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 07:24:36

Vanadium Battery Technology Makes Commercial Progress as a Storage Solution for Renewable Energy

Providing baseload power to the energy grid requires it be “dispatchable”, or available on demand, ... 70’s researching battery technology at Bell Laboratories, began a project at the University at New ... of the element, by testing a highly soluble form of Vanadium as a liquid electrolyte. Skyllas [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 23:52:11

Pentagon to Develop National Cyber Testbed

News in Balance:WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2009 -- The Defense Department is developing a national “cyber range” to test cybersecurity technology and ... months, each contractor will lead a team of businesses, universities and federal laboratories ... they are,” DARPA Program Manager Dr. Michael VanPutte explained.The facility is to take current testing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 14:37:00

Get Your Genome Sequenced—Now 95% Off

A biotechnology company has announced a new price for sequencing an individual’s entire genome: $5,000 ... of clinical drug testing ABC News . Complete Genomics won’t offer its services directly to people ... companies or research laboratories that are doing studies aimed at finding genes linked to diseases [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 21:22:27

'Touch DNA' Offers Hope in Cold Cases

Private and state-run laboratories report increases of up to 20 percent in use of the new forensic testing technique. [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 21:36:00

January Issue of Advanced Aquarist now online

The number of articles in this month’s issue of Advanced Aquarist may be lean but the heavy hitting write-ups by Dana Riddle and ... for testing skimmer performance in a reproduceable manner using Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA). We don’ ... & Review of Seachem Laboratories Aqua Vitro A Veritable “Mind-Blowing Species Factory” Found Off [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 07:19:01

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (KBLB.OB) Successfully Activates the Market DNA in Silkworms Indicating Significant Progress

Kraig Biocraft excitedly announced today that the scientific team has achieved the activation of fluorescent marker gene sequences that were ... have a new generation of silkworms ready for testing at regular intervals of approximately fourteen days ... development program.” Let us hear your thoughts: Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. Message Board [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 15:32:17

Contagious Equine Metritis: The List of Exposed Horses Grows and Grows

by Fran Jurga | 14 January 2009 | The Jurga Report on Equisearch ... Veterinary Services Laboratories. Four of the infected stallions are located in Kentucky and three ... , are currently under quarantine or hold order. Testing and treatment protocols are being put into action [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 05:26:01

College Lab Research

Are you a college student that is working towards a degree in Medical research and development? ... of products for lab testing, they can assist you by providing the unique solutions required to aid ... Chromatography products at state of the art laboratories. Set your future on the right track; let PerkinElmer [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 02:03:17

You Almost Had Me, Gatesy

I had been mildly warming to the idea of keeping Robert Gates on for a time as Secretary of Defense under a hypothetical Obama administration; ... deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without resorting to testing our stockpile ... , fund this thing, motherfuckers, or we start testing. The United States concluded the last full-scale [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 14:38:00

we are all gaza. we are all resistance.okay so i have abandoned any notion that i can get any of my own work done this week in beirut. my mind is stuck on gaza and really don’t want it to be otherwise. i leave the apartment to go to the coffeeshop when rania’s electricity cuts every day for a few hours and i run into friends, who i want to see [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:53:26

Rolling out the infrastructure: Plug-ins for Boulder, Australia

Building out infrastructure for recharging is central to hastening large-scale adoption of plug-in electric ... s SmartGridCity project, four converted vehicles are being used in first phase testing, all of which ... and University of Colorado fleets. “Testing this type of technology on Boulder County vehicles [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 16:24:12

We Have Aready Lost??????

Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961 (extracts)"Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 00:43:00

Elizabeth Loder on academic-industry interactions

It was a Boston day so cold that my morning assortment of emails included a message suggesting that hospital employees should be on the lookout for indoor puddles that might indicate frozen, burst water pipes. As I walked across the medical school campus towards the Tosteson Medical Education Center, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 12:01:48

Standard of education in Dubai

My kids love their current school in Dubai and will oppose any motion to transfer them to new school. One of the reasons, beside the teachers and friendly learning atmosphere, is shorter schooldays, i.e. 6 months in a year...In the below article, the standard is compared to certain countries, one of them is SINGAPORE, a KIASU country... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 02:51:00

Our Change Agenda for Animals

Senate confirmation hearings are in full swing this week for President-elect Obama’s Cabinet choices ... , and to explain how they will execute Obama’s plans for confronting the major challenges facing the nation ... have a direct impact on the lives of millions of pets, farm animals, laboratory animals, and wildlife [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:14:22

From an OpEdNews Article: Israel's Little Shop of Horrors

Israel has been accused of using White Phosphorus (Willy Pete in U.S. Army slang.) on Gaza. Willy Pete is a diabolical weapon when used on humans, clinging to one's skin and burning all the way to the bone. It can't be put out by any normal means. The American military was caught using it in Fallujah in Iraq [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 04:34:00

2 Points About DVT Ultrasonography

A study released in the October 8th edition of JAMA reports that when patients with suspected DVT of the lower extremities were investigated with ... ). Repeat testing may be safely avoided in patients with a normal D-dimer test result ... isolated calf DVT, allowing for 1-day treatment of all patients, without additional testing. Conversely [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 07:25:33

USGS Unlocks New Discoveries to Help Protect Endangered and At-Risk Species

Scientists are using new and creative ways to help protect endangered and at-risk species and the ecosystems they — and humans — depend on for survival. This includes the use of new tools such as DNA testing to track grizzly bear movement ... critically endangered freshwater mussels to their native habitats by raising them in laboratories [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:35:17

Baby retrieved from Attattra, north-western Gaza - Photo by Mohammed from Khan Younis

Pressure grew on Israel to end the use of controversial white phosphorus yesterday as The Times saw more evidence of its deployment around civilian populations in Gaza. A baby retrieved from Attattra, northwestern Gaza, where paramedics estimate 100s of calls to retrieve the injured and the dead have gone ignored due to Israeli troops [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:38:58

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