Healthcare News

A Weekly Compilation of Clinical Laboratory and Related Information
From The Division Of Laboratory Systems

December 17, 2015

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News Highlights

Leading News

FDA Issues Draft Ebola Guidance for Blood Centers
CDC Debuts New Tools for Testing and Assessing Risk for HIV
Is Lab Testing the ‘Wild West’ of Medicine?

Laboratory Testing / Diagnostics

Diabetes: Too Much Testing?
Prostate Cancer Test Is More Reliable if Done Twice
Clinical Trials Are Subjecting Cancer Patients to Too Many Biopsies, Study Finds

Research and Development

Molecule Clears Alzheimer's Plaques in Mice
Arthritis Predicted 16 Years Before Disease Takes Hold Using New Test
Mayo Clinic Researchers Uncover Six Possible Protein Biomarkers for Bipolar Disorder

Public Health and Patient Safety

Task Force: Screen All Teens, Adults at Risk for Syphilis
First Dengue Fever Vaccine Approved by Mexico
FDA Approves First Recombinant von Willebrand Factor to Treat Bleeding Episodes

Health IT and Other