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Medical care is a broad term to describe of healthcare administration, including diagnostics, treatment, and patient management. Medical care aims to fight a disease or disorder by providing medication, therapeutics, and counseling to patients.
FEB 05, 2014 | 11:00 AM
All personnel involved in an animal care and use program are expected to have an appropriate level of education, training and/or qualifications to perform their duties as defined through laws...
FEB 05, 2014 | 9:00 AM
The primary goal of all gnotobiotic facilities is to maintain a germ-free colony until such time as protocols require associations with other organisms. As such, a well-trained and knowledgea...
FEB 05, 2014 | 9:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Public concerns over animal experimentation are becoming felt on both sides of the Atlantic, and a dangerous chasm is appearing between those who conduct such experiments and those who are o...
FEB 05, 2014 | 7:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Simplifying Rodent Surgery... Tips for improving technique without incurring unreasonable costs Good science is greatly dependent on minimization of study variables. Surgery has the potential...
NOV 20, 2013 | 10:00 AM
2013 has proven to be a year of paradigmatic shifts in molecular diagnostics reimbursement policy. In this session, we will review and analyze these key policy and payment developments and di...
NOV 14, 2013 | 9:00 AM
Reliable data from multiple sources, including the 2010-11 Allina study of 13,500 health care employees, demonstrates that at least 30-60% of North Americans are vitamin D deficient and that...
OCT 17, 2013 | 8:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Developments in DNA sequencing technology have provided a unique opportunity for diagnosis and discovery of genetic alterations for rare diseases. Partnering with 20 academic centers in the U...
OCT 17, 2013 | 7:00 AM
Whenever there is cell death, apoptotic cell free DNA fragments appear in the circulation of the host. These fragments, typically 145-160 base pairs in size, represent a minute fraction of to...
OCT 16, 2013 | 3:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
While Melanoma is very curable and treatable when detected early, late stage melanoma has had a very poor outcome. In 2013, it is estimated that over 80,000 patients in the US will develop me...
OCT 16, 2013 | 1:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
While androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) remains the primary treatment modality for patients with metastatic prostate cancer (PCa), treatment is uniformly marked by progression to castration-...
OCT 16, 2013 | 1:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
Cancer cells have historically been classified by microscopic analysis of blood smears and tissue sections. Current technologies use molecular techniques to categorize and classify tumor cell...
OCT 16, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Survival rates for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain unacceptably low compared to other common solid tumors. This mortality reflects a weakness in conventional staging, a...
AUG 22, 2013 | 3:00 PM
Developments in DNA sequencing technology have provided a unique opportunity for diagnosis and discovery of genetic alterations for rare diseases. Partnering with 20 academic centers in the U...
AUG 22, 2013 | 3:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
The use of ultrahigh throughput diagnostic tests that determine genetic sequence variation to guide patient care is rapidly expanding, fueled by the enormous growth in sequencing platform dev...
AUG 22, 2013 | 2:00 PM
The role of the human genome in normal and patho-biology is crucial. Applied in cancer care and in a variety of unknown disorder settings, it can provide key insights and crucial diagnostic/p...
AUG 21, 2013 | 2:00 PM
Increasingly genome sequence knowledge is unraveling the complexity of rare Mendelian disorders offering hope for our children's medical care through better disease diagnosis and ultimately p...
AUG 21, 2013 | 12:00 PM
Whenever there is cell death, apoptotic cell free DNA fragments appear in the circulation of the host. These fragments, typically 145-160 base pairs in size, represent a minute fraction of to...
AUG 21, 2013 | 10:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Medical applications of genetics and genomics have been advancing dramatically since completion of the sequencing of the human genome. The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted, leading to the...
AUG 21, 2013 | 8:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
With the technical costs of genome sequencing continuously dropping, it is now feasible to offer this assay in a clinical context. Empirical evidence suggests that genome and exome sequencing...
MAY 30, 2013 | 12:00 PM
Development of a companion diagnostic can be critical to the success of a drug. Pharmaceutical companies are committing more and more of their efforts to discover and deliver targeted therapi...
MAY 30, 2013 | 9:00 AM
Survival rates for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain unacceptably low compared to other common solid tumors. This mortality reflects a weakness in conventional staging, as...
FEB 05, 2014 | 9:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Public concerns over animal experimentation are becoming felt on both sides of the Atlantic, and a dangerous chasm is appearing between those who conduct such experiments and those who are o...
FEB 05, 2014 | 7:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Simplifying Rodent Surgery... Tips for improving technique without incurring unreasonable costs Good science is greatly dependent on minimization of study variables. Surgery has the potential...