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Several firms are bringing high-sensitivity cardiac troponin testing into the ER, although doctors are not yet certain how much difference the tests will make.
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View as a gridChildren's Hospitals Brace for Reduced Test Access, Higher Costs Under LDT Final Rule
360Dx
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Pathology directors expect that they will be unable to send out or receive samples for new tests when the FDA's new LDT rule takes effect.
Rabbit, hare populations recovering from viral disease
JAVMA
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Rabbit and hare populations appear to have largely recovered from a viral disease that caused die-offs in the Western U.S., although the pathogen remains a spreading threat.
Finding the spreaders of chronic wasting disease
JAVMA
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Research teams are working to improve tests used to find the prions that cause chronic wasting disease, track animal movements and interactions related to the disease, and advance our understanding of the roles soil and plants have in disease transmission.
As Molecular Testing Expands, Labs Find Reimbursement Process Becoming a Herculean Task
360Dx
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Laboratories and lab consultants said that they have seen in recent years a more adversarial and uncertain reimbursement process fraught with delays, denials, and added labor.
New Sepsis Testing Tools Emerging While Adoption Drags Amid Clinical Utility Concerns
360Dx
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Through clinical trials, partnerships, and economic studies, a crop of test developers is trying to prove the value of their tools to guide treatment.
Arima Genomics Aims to Replace some FISH-based Cancer Tests with Hi-C Sequencing Assays
GenomeWeb/360Dx
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The company said that recent study results show its Aventa Lymphoma test can provide actionable information that would typically be missed by FISH testing.
Optimism About New Tools, Capabilities Pump up Investments in Digital Pathology
360Dx
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Investors and consultants in the space said that they have seen rising enthusiasm
among investors as recent funding rounds outpace prior hauls.
Veterinarians try to protect teams, maintain services during pandemic
JAVMA
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As COVID-19 infections forced nearby veterinary clinics to cut services, patient volumes rose at the lone 24-hour animal hospital in Fargo, North Dakota. Dr. Tanya Borud, co-owner of Red River Animal Emergency Hospital and Referral Center, said in late November case numbers were up 25%-30%-causing prolonged delays for examination and treatment of the most stable patients, whose numbers had already been up since the start of the pandemic.
Teams shelter, treat animals in record fire season
JAVMA
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Tens of thousands of firefighters have been battling massive fire complexes in California, Oregon, and Washington state and extinguishing dozens of new fires each day. Veterinarians on emergency response teams treated injured animals, helped find and evacuate those in danger, and monitored the animals staying on pastures after their owners evacuated.
State, local public health veterinarians work long hours to protect the public
JAVMA
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Dr. Betsy Schroeder, Pennsylvania state public health veterinarian, feels like she's sprinting a marathon. She and the members of her public health teams are trying to find a sustainable pace in their work to protect people from COVID-19.
Veterinarians maintain safeguards as states ease restrictions
JAVMA
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Dr. John Lu runs three veterinary practices in Queens, one of the New York City boroughs hardest hit by the COVID-19 virus. Of his 10 doctors, two are recovering from SARS-CoV-2 infections, one is isolating himself because his wife became infected, and another is older and staying home to protect himself.
Virus killing rabbits in Western U.S.
JAVMA
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A viral disease that kills wild and domesticated rabbits is spreading in the Western U.S. Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus serotype 2 affects the European rabbits raised as pets or farmed and at least some wild rabbits and hares native to North America.
CWD spreading, sometimes long before discovery
JAVMA
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About four in 10 wild cervids are infected with CWD in areas of Colorado, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The always-fatal prion disease also can simmer undetected in remote clusters of animals, as apparently happened in Arkansas and Tennessee along the states' shared border.
Study breaks species barrier on widespread parasite
JAVMA
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In a scientific article published this summer, a research team from the University of Wisconsin and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service identified why cats are the hosts of Toxoplasma gondii and went on to use this knowledge to induce T gondii oocyte production in mice. The findings could make T gondii studies easier for more laboratories, aid work on vaccines that could protect people and animals from infection, and help investigators understand how other parasites reproduce.
Virulent Newcastle cases dwindle
JAVMA
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A viral outbreak in poultry has waned after a year of infections and the deaths of more than 1 million birds. State and federal animal health authorities euthanized or depopulated about 1.2 million birds, largely chickens, in a campaign since May 2018 to control the outbreak of virulent Newcastle disease in Southern California.
U.S. braces for African swine fever
JAVMA
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Viral outbreaks have battered U.S. swine farms over the past 30 years, sometimes killing millions of pigs in a single year. Swine owners have worked with veterinarians to seal their barns to keep out disease-causing organisms, especially porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.
ER docs shortage turns critical
JAVMA
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Veterinary hospitals in the U.S. looking to open or expand their emergency services are seeing a shortage of emergency veterinarians and veterinary technicians. Two organizations that serve emergency and critical care veterinarians are trying to quantify the problem and find ways to encourage veterinarians to start or keep working in emergency rooms.
The dangers of improper drug disposal
JAVMA
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Hundreds of human-made chemicals flow into U.S. streams and waterways. Dana W. Kolpin, a research hydrologist for the U.S. Geologic Survey, said wildlife interacts with those products in unpredictable ways. "In the real world, a fish or an earthworm or whatever is not just getting hit with one compound at a time," he said.
Antimicrobial sales decline on farms
JAVMA
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In 2017, livestock industries bought one-third less of antimicrobials in the same drug classes as those given to people. The amount, by weight, of those drugs sold for use in livestock dropped 33 percent from 2016, a single-year difference of 6 million pounds, according to a Food and Drug Administration report published in December 2018.
Specialists in short supply
JAVMA
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Specialists in short supply
The veterinary profession has a shortage of specialists across most or all disciplines, according to executives at universities and private practice groups. At least hundreds more veterinarians want to be specialists each year than are able to get into residencies. The demand may be greatest for radiologists, who can receive high pay and set their own hours as consultants, but might not be training enough residents.
Cocaine gives Greyhound racing a black eye
JAVMA
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Greyhounds in Florida have tested positive for cocaine or cocaine metabolites about 230 times in the past 20 years, according to state and court documents. The Racing Laboratory at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine has analyzed more than 700,000 race-day urine samples since July 1998. Among the substances found during that time, cocaine and two metabolites—benzoylecgonine and ecgonine methyl ester—constitute one-fifth of the violations.
Finding lead in pets
JAVMA
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Dogs in Flint, Michigan, had high blood lead concentrations following the discovery of lead contamination in the city’s water supply. But the researchers who found those concentrations warn that lead contamination likely is a problem elsewhere as well. In the absence of surveillance for lead exposure in pets, the number or percentage of pets with exposure or toxicosis is unknown. Exposure in children and lead in homes may indicate that toxicosis is a risk for pets.