FDA allows marketing of the first newborn screening test to help detect Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
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Washington, DC - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today allowed marketing of the EnLite Neonatal TREC Kit, the first screening test permitted to be marketed by FDA for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) in newborns.
FDA grants CLIA waiver expanding the availability of rapid screening test for syphilis
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Washington, DC - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it granted the first-ever waiver, under certain laboratory regulations, for a rapid screening test for syphilis, which will allow the Syphilis Health Check test to be used in a greater variety of health care settings.
FDA approves drug that extends survival in the most common type of lung cancer
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Los Angeles, California - The Food and Drug Administration Friday approved a new drug to treat non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), offering people new hope in fighting the disease. Lung cancer is expected to lead to more than 150,000 deaths in the United States this year alone, and NSCLC accounts for about 85 percent of all lung cancers.
Higher-earning physicians make more money by ordering more procedures per patient
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Los Angeles, California - In results they characterized as “very surprising,” UCLA researchers found for the first time that higher-earning clinicians make more money by ordering more procedures and services per patient rather than by seeing more patients, which may not be in patients’ best interest.
UCLA researcher develops robotic surgery technique to treat previously inoperable head and neck cancer
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Los Angeles, California - In a groundbreaking new study, UCLA researchers have advanced a robotic surgical technique to successfully access a previously unreachable area of the head and neck.
Researchers unlock protein key to harnessing regenerative power of blood stem cells
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Los Angeles, California - UCLA scientists have for the first time identified a protein that plays a key role in regulating how blood stem cells replicate in humans.
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