Sentences with phrase «as rapid testing»

Technological advances such as rapid testing of patients and fast genetic analysis of viruses could help experts deal more effectively with emergency situations as they unfold, thereby saving lives.

Tim has been with Neogen for 21 years, specializing in diagnostic applications such as rapid testing and allergens.

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The deal will help Abbott expand in point - of - care diagnostic testing, a market that is growing as physicians increasingly adopt rapid tests that speed up treatment.

These shops seemed to have key medicines and products in stock, such as pneumonia medications, rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria, and antimalarials.

«Our data indicate that head trauma events can be effectively identified by K - D test time scores, and that analyses of this new measure in future studies can establish its role as a rapid sideline screening test for concussion,» she writes.

Thinking about people having new babies and looking back on the early days of new motherhood is funny as my — youngest — baby is growing up at such a rapid rate that I'm pretty sure she has her driving test next week, so there's a lot of distance between us and that time.

In a March 11, 2015 «Well» blog New York Times health reporter, Gretchen Reynolds, reported on a new study by NYU researchers, including Laura Balcer, a member of MomsTEAM Institute's Board of Advisors, about the use of a simple, rapid, and inexpensive visual test called King - Devick as a sideline screen to help identify athletes as young as five wit

Research is on the horizon regarding a vaccine for both early and late onset GBS infectious illness - which sparks an entirely different debate, as well as more accurate and available rapid testing in labor.

For the rapid number naming test, athletes are given a baseline test before the season starts where they are asked to read numbers as quickly as they can off a series of three reading cards while being timed with a stopwatch.

But the rapid tests are not as sensitive as those that allow time for the GBS to incubate, so the CDC, ACOG, and AAP all still recommend screening at 35 to 37 weeks.

The DNA - based multiplex diagnostic test will enable rapid diagnosis and confirmation of dengue, as well as identify the specific serotype of dengue causing the infection.

As revealed through another series of coin - cell battery tests, 4.7 volts caused rapid decomposition of the electrolytes and poor cycling — the higher power comes at a price.

Patients welcomed the rapid diagnostic tests as well as government involvement in improving drug shops, and vendors «felt big» and more akin to qualified health workers in the public sector for being allowed to test blood.

The strategy was containment: Build a firewall around areas of drug resistance by ramping up control measures, such as bednets, rapid diagnostic tests, and ACTs.

«Dentists are well placed to offer rapid HIV testing because they're located throughout the community, have ongoing relationships with their patients, and have the necessary training and expertise to recognize systemic diseases that have oral manifestations, such as HIV / AIDS,» says the study's lead author, Dr Anthony Santella of the University of Sydney.

«As well, we have fresh evidence that around 45 per cent of dentists feel prepared and willing to perform rapid HIV - testing.

«We extended this biomarker research to the domain of professional sports to test its merit as an objective and rapid way to determine players» severity of brain injury,» says lead author, Robert Siman, PhD, Research Professor of Neurosurgery at Penn. «This blood test may aid neurobiologically - informed decisions on suitability for return to play following a sports - related concussion.»

Nanoident Technologies, based in Linz, aims to produce sensors for applications such as rapid medical testing and fingerprint analysis.

«As the price and accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests and other diagnostic instruments improve, I think we have a chance to really make a difference in clinical settings facing huge burdens of acute undifferentiated febrile infections that I believe are being misdiagnosed,» said Stoler, who also holds a position in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the UM Miller School of Medicine.

The rapid turnaround time of the test could be ideal for resource - limited situations, such as war zones, remote areas, and during emergencies, the authors say.

As the Ebola outbreak simmers on in West Africa, researchers have shown the utility of a rapid test for the virus that could help contain another epidemic.

They have developed a set of tools that can be used to make accurate, rapid assessments of proposed materials, using a series of relatively simple lab tests combined with computer modeling of the physical properties of the material itself, as well as additional modeling based on a statistical method known as Bayesian inference.

MagLIF fusion, as this approach is known, is relatively new, but its rapid progress since initial tests in late 2013 has excited fusion enthusiasts.

Subjects were tested for their rapid eye movement that allows focus to shift on multiple objects in the field of vision (aka saccade) and ability to follow objects moving across the visual field, known as smooth - pursuit.

For recycling, the scientists rely on the melt spinning process — a method already tried and tested for other alloys, also known as «rapid solidification.»

It involves processing swabs immediately on a portable device combined with a rapid molecular test and, as samples do not need to be sent to the laboratory, results can be delivered within an hour as opposed to a number of days.

Placing these rapid and accurate tests into clinics may also have a big impact on the fight against antibiotic resistance, as they enable correct diagnosis of infections that have similar signs and symptoms.

However, the precise nature of that role is undergoing a visible change, not only because of the new synthetic methods and technologies now available to the synthetic and medicinal chemist, but also in several key areas, particularly in drug metabolism and chemical toxicology, as chemists deal with the ever more rapid turnaround of testing data that influences their day - to - day decisions.

The availability of centralized facilities will allow rapid access of investigators in NOAC, as well as investigators new to alcohol research, to the tissues and cells needed to test novel and innovative hypotheses without the delay of each PI developing these techniques in each of their own laboratories.

This paper is intended as a rapid release of planet candidates, eclipsing binaries and other interesting periodic variables to maximize the scientific yield of this campaign, and as a test run for the upcoming TESS mission, whose frequent data releases call for similarly rapid candidate identification and efficient follow - up.

«Given these benefits, we'd eventually like to see rapid WGS as a reimbursable first - tier test for a proportion of infants in the NICU.»

In the search for compounds that might alter a protein's behavior or function — such as that of alpha - synuclein — drug companies often rely on so - called target - based screens that test the effect large numbers of compounds have on the protein in question in rapid, automated fashion.

With the speed of genomic sequencing increasing at the same time as a rapid drop in pricing, whole genome sequencing (WGS) is rapidly becoming a preferred clinical laboratory test.

Testing can be done either at LabPMM laboratories or entirely in an investigator's own facility, with the bioinformatics analysis done on customer's own computers, ensuring rapid turn around times as well as data protection.

Within 35 days, Steve Newport's rapid neurological decline was arrested and 18 months later he had recovered enough brain function and normal behavior to test as only a mild case of Alzheimer's — the same tests which before starting the VCO feeding program had indicated that he was borderline severe dementia.

Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new «Body Drug» that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death.

The study found that test scores for KIPP students have continued to increase, but that gains have not been as rapid as they were in the period before the massive expansion.

Before parents and teachers could react, unproven concepts such as a high stakes tests mandatory grade retention, for profit charter schools, vouchers, A-F school / district grades and tying teacher evaluations to test scores were signed into law at a rapid pace.

As part of the Carnegie Alpha Lab Research Network, this program of research involves rapid prototyping and testing of innovations to examine how changing students» motivation beliefs towards their classes (e.g., perceptions of confidence and value) can improve academic outcomes.

As a form of intellectual infrastructure, education is well - positioned to take advantage of both the rapid testing of new ideas...

While skills have always been a part of reading instruction (witness all the bits and pieces of letter sounds and syllables in the alphabetic approach), the skill as a fundamental unit of curriculum and the scope and sequence chart as a way of organizing skills that extend across the elementary grades are twentieth century phenomena, nurtured, I would add, by the rapid expansion of commercial basal reading programs and standardized reading tests.

In my week with the Focus Electric in the San Francisco Bay Area — the first multiday test of the car by a journalist — the powertrain felt as if it had been tailored for highway driving, offering rapid bursts of acceleration from 30 to 50 m.p.h., and from 55 to 75, with oomph left in reserve.

«Criteria to win are tough because TOP SAFETY PICK is intended to drive continued improvements such as top crash test ratings and rapid addition of electronic stability control, which is standard equipment on the TSX,» says Institute president Adrian Lund.

«Criteria to win Top Safety Pick award are tough because they're intended to drive continued safety improvements such as high crash test ratings and rapid addition of ESC,» says Institute president Adrian Lund.

«Criteria to win are tough because Top Safety Pick is intended to drive continued improvements such as good crash test ratings and rapid addition of electronic stability control, which is standard equipment on 9 of the 11 new winners,» says Institute president Adrian Lund.

Unfortunately, there is not a rapid - result test available for pets as there is for humans.

Respiratory signs, along with the rapid spreading of disease among dog populations, can be suspected as canine flu, but serological tests for confirmation is recommended for prevention.

This is useful for rapid or preliminary tests but is not as accurate as histopathology, which is done at a specialized laboratory by a veterinary pathologist.

Now, things are changing as a result of the The Spectrum Group's VacciCheck rapid antibody titer test for Distemper, Adenovirus, and Parvovirus.

Cytology (the microscopic examination of cell samples drawn from the tumor using a needle and syringe) is sometimes helpful as a rapid or preliminary test.