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Hearing to target fees for lab tests 2008-09-15 13:27:59 By Sam Womack/Staff Writer
Midway through a packed agenda on Tuesday, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors have a hearing scheduled to consider an increase in laboratory testing fees.
The county’s laboratory testing fees have not increased since 1988, according to a staff report presented to the supervisors.
Some of the tests
, such as drug susceptibility with a mycobacteria growth i Read more:Hearing
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FDA Approves Test for Hepatitis B 2008-09-12 12:45:15 Hepatitis B (HBV) is the most serious type of viral hepatitis. According to the World Health Organization around 2 billion people worldwide are infected each year. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates about 1.25 million people currently have chronic hepatitis B. Individuals with chronic hepatitis B spread the infection to approximately 60,000 people each y Read more:Hepatitis
Toll rises to 121 in Uganda hepatitis epidemic 2008-09-04 18:02:55 KAMPALA (AFP) — A hepatitis E epidemic
has killed 121 people in northern Uganda
, where it erupted in October last year, a health ministry official said Thursday.
The outbreak has mainly affected displaced residents in the Kitgum district returning to their homes, which lack proper hygiene, said Kenya Mugisha, the ministry's director for clinical services.
"These people are moving from I
FDA Approves First Hepatitis B Viral Load Test 2008-09-04 16:43:46 Another Roche first in TaqMan(R) real-time PCR testing for the diagnostic labLast update: 1:24 p.m. EDT Sept. 4, 2008
PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept 04, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Roche COBAS(R) TaqMan(R) HBV Test, the first assay for quantitating Hepatitis
B Virus DNA approved in the U.S. The test uses Roche's real-time PCR technology Read more:First
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