Cancer Waiting Times Statistics - 2008/09 Quarter 1, UK The key points from the latest release are: Performance on the five standards has remained around their highest recorded levels, during the period April to June 2008, namely: - 99.9% of patients were seen within 2 weeks from urgent GP referral to outpatient appointment. This is a marginal increase from 99.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comLondon Doctors Surgery Goes Green By Using Car Club For House Visits, UK A doctors surgery in central London are using a pay-as-you-go car club instead of their private cars in order to significantly reduce their carbon footprint. Doctors at the James Wigg Practice in Camden Town, no longer use their private cars for home visits and have done a deal with leading UK car club, City Car Club.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comRapid Changes In Key Alzheimer's Protein Described In Humans For the first time, researchers have described hour-by-hour changes in the amount of amyloid beta, a protein that is believed to play a key role in Alzheimer's disease, in the human brain. A collaborative team of scientists at Washington University School of
Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Milan report their results in Science.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFDA Grants CLIA Waiver To ABMC For Its Drug Test American Bio Medica Corporation (NASDAQ:ABMC) announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted CLIA waived status to the Company's Rapid TOX® point of collection drug test product line. The waiver applies to all 14
drugs that the Company currently tests for in addition to two different cut-off levels for its Opiate and Cocaine tests.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comResearch Ethics Committees Identify And Correct Problems In Applications To Do Cancer Trials, UK Researchers running cancer trials are often critical of the Research Ethics Committee (REC) process they have to go through to get their trials approved, complaining that it's too complex, burdensome and sometimes unreasonable. In the UK only 17% of research study applications are given immediate favourable opinion by RECs.
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