Government
Several colleagues have in recent months asked me what the status of AFIP is following the BRAC commission announcement to close the institution in May of 2005. As I wrote about this September (see AFIP looking ahead) and in July ( see...
Aperio has recently received FDA clearance for interpretation of progesterone receptor to its already approved HER2 clearance for digital reads as well as image analysis applications for ER and PR. Excellent news for signing out breast cancers...
The US State Department has formed a telemedicine public-private partnership in Pakistan, demonstrating the transformative power of high speed connectivity in improving social services in remote areas. Telemedicine enables healthcare...
http://www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/s6947c.htm I thought this was an interesting commentary: "FDA aside, what can we tell someone about a screening test that is supposedly 95% sensitive and has a false positive rate of 0.6% among...
Senators on the Commerce Committee recently promoted the benefits of high-speed internet access and called for the passage of measures designed to provide more public information about broadband, and more broadband connectivity. At a hearing on...
The New York Times (9/25, A22, Harris) reports that Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., "director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), who shook up the agency when he barred scientists from consulting for drugmakers, announced that he would...
