Research and Markets: 2013 UK Hospital Microbiology Testing Market

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/fzjwh6/2013_uk_hospital) has announced the addition of the "2013 UK Hospital Microbiology Testing Market" report to their offering.

This new report from Venture Planning Group contains 886 pages, 67 tables, and presents a comprehensive analysis of the UK hospital infectious disease testing market, including:

- Major issues pertaining to the UK hospital laboratory practice, as well as key economic, regulatory, demographic, social and technological trends with significant market impact during the next ten years.

- Current scientific views on definition, epidemiology, and etiology of major infectious diseases and microorganisms.

- Volume and sales forecasts for 80 infectious disease tests performed in UK hospital laboratories.

- Instrumentation technologies and feature comparison of leading analyzers.

- Sales and market shares of leading suppliers.

- Emerging diagnostic technologies and their potential market applications.

- Product development opportunities.

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Research and Markets: 2013 US Hospital Microbiology Testing Market Gives Volume and Sales Forecasts for 80 …

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/tkznzp/2013_us_hospital) has announced the addition of the "2013 US Hospital Microbiology Testing Market" report to their offering.

This new report from Venture Planning Group contains 997 pages, 87 tables, and presents a comprehensive analysis of the US hospital microbiology testing market, including:

Major issues pertaining to the US hospital laboratory practice, as well as key economic, regulatory, demographic, social and technological trends with significant market impact during the next ten years. Current scientific views on the definition, epidemiology, and etiology of major infectious diseases and microorganisms. Volume and sales forecasts for 80 microbiology tests performed in US hospital laboratories. Instrumentation technologies and feature comparison of leading analyzers. Sales and market shares of leading suppliers by test. Emerging diagnostic technologies and their potential market applications. Product development opportunities. Profiles of current and emerging suppliers, including their sales, market shares, product portfolios, marketing tactics, technological know-how, new products in R&D, collaborative arrangements and business strategies. Business opportunities and strategic recommendations for suppliers.

Companies Mentioned:

- Abbott

- Affymetrix

- Beckman Coulter/Danaher

- Becton Dickinson

- bioMerieux

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Suspension of longevity pay passes first reading

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PARKERSBURG - Parkersburg City Council Tuesday approved the first reading of an ordinance to indefinitely suspend longevity pay for city employees.

Council unanimously approved the first reading but not until a debate over whether the automatic raises should be done away with entirely.

Last year, council did not include the automatic longevity raises for city employees in its 2012-13 budget. The longevity pay would have increased employee pay by 30 cents an hour each year of service. Council later voted to suspend the increases for a year.

At Tuesday's meeting, Councilman John Kelly argued members needed to take a more definitive approach.

"We need to quit suspending it from year to year," he said. "Eventually there needs to be something done with this."

Mayor Bob Newell said he believed longevity pay should not be eliminated entirely, only suspended.

"This is a tool in the toolbox," he said. "Down the road I suspect we may want to bring this back in some form or fashion. I'm against doing away with it entirely."

Councilman John Rockhold and City Attorney Joe Santer said the ordinance as written would not eliminate longevity pay but also would not require an annual vote.

"This suspends it until further action from city council," Rockhold said.

"It will come back if council chooses to bring it back," Santer said.

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Longevity Global Inc. Now Offers Most Innovative Welding Machines and Accessories

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Its technological advances and worldwide manufacturing and distribution resources, that enable Longevity to provide great welding machines for a variety of jobs. Longevity welders are excellent machines, good for a variety of welding jobs. They also sample products to the top welders in the United States to receive crucial feedback, which drives their innovation.

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New technique detecting ‘sugar-coated’ proteins could identify diseases earlier

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(Phys.org) Scientists from our Departments of Biology & Biochemistry and Chemistry have developed a new technique that could be used in blood tests to detect a range of age-related conditions such as diabetes, dementia and Alzheimer's.

In the process of ageing, proteins in the body react with sugars in a process called glycation. This damages the protein's function which in some diseases can trigger complications such as inflammation and premature aging.

The team of chemists and biochemists at Bath have developed a technique that detects levels of glycated proteins in blood and tissue samples, which can be used to assess the damage caused by sugars in age-related diseases.

The technique, published today in the Nature Group journal Scientific Reports, is based on gel electrophoresis, where samples are put into a thin gel layer and an electric current is applied. The gel acts like a molecular sieve, sorting proteins from the samples according to their size and shape, allowing scientists to identify whether specific proteins are present in the sample.

The system, patented by the research team, uses boronic acid labelled with a fluorescent tag to distinguish between the glycated and unmodified proteins. The method also, allows them to distinguish glycated proteins from proteins that have been glycosylated; a normal process in healthy cells where sugars are added using enzymes.

Researchers are now looking for industrial partners to collaborate and develop the system to detect levels of glycated proteins in human blood samples, leading to a simple test for a variety of age-related diseases.

Dr Jean Van Den Elsen, from the University's Department of Biology & Biochemistry, explained: "We are currently using our technique to understand how these age-related diseases work, by identifying new biomarkers for diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and testing how new treatments affect levels of glycated proteins.

Marta Pereira Morais, the post-doctoral researcher on the project added: "So far we've proven this test is able to detect glycated proteins in blood and in a caterpillar model for diabetes. We have also been able to distinguish between brain material from healthy mice and those with AD pathology.

"We hope in the future to develop this technology into a simple blood test for diseases such as AD, so that patients with the condition can be diagnosed and treated earlier."

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Anti – Aging Remedies: Cocoa, Red Wine, Green Tea & More

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NEW YORK (WLNY) Dr. Steven Lamm, internist and faculty member at New York University School of Medicine, walks us through some of the best, simple, natural things you can do on your journey to better health and longevity.

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1) Cocoahas a long legacy as a super foodThe Kuna Nation from Panama is a great example. Amazing health benefits backed by prodigious published research. These indigenous people consume more cocoa than any others in the world3-4 cups a dayand their cardiovascular and overall health indices are amazing compared to people living on the mainland.

2) Red wine is as old as the hills. Remember the fruit of the vine from the Bible. The resveratrol found in red wine has been found to create many significant anti-aging benefits. Now, resveratrol is available in supplement form from red wine and Japanese knotweed sources.

3) Green and white teas are loaded with healthful polyphenols that not only provide antioxidant protection to the cells, but also contain L-theanine, which some say creates a relaxed meditative-like brain state. No wonder green tea has been a staple in Zen monasteries.

4) Krill, flax seeds, omega-3sEskimos have thrived on a high fat diet filled with blubberbut their cardiovascular health has traditionally been superb. The reason? Omega-3s. Lots to share on this topic.

5) Sunshine and Vit D The lack of sunshine in northern climates, plus our deficient Standard American Diet, and latest advice to avoid sunlight, are the perfect Rx for Vitamin D deficiency. Sunlight is perhaps the most ancient and powerful life-giving ingredient on the planet.

6) For libidoMaca and Horny Goat Weed have amazing restorative properties.

7) Willow barkthe precursor for aspirin, has obvious anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties. This remedy has been around for a very long time.

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New crew set to zip up to space station in just 6 hours

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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 35/36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy (right), Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov (center) and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin clasp hands for photographers prior to the start of qualification simulation runs in a Soyuz spacecraft mock-up on March 5, 2013.

By Clara MoskowitzSpace.com

Three men are poised to make history today when they blast off on a rocket ride Thursdaythat will reach the International Space faster than any astronauts to fly there before.

NASA astronautChris Cassidyand Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Pavel Vinogradov are due to arrive at the orbiting laboratory just six hours after they launch at 4:43 p.m. EDT. The liftoff will begin a months-long mission in orbit for the three men.

The trio will blast off from the Central Asian spaceport of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The mission's Soyuz rocket rolled out to the launch pad on Tuesdayto prepare for today's liftoff.

You can watch the launch live here onSpace.com's NASA TV feed beginning at 3:30 p.m. EDT.

In the nearly 13 years since crews first began launching to the International Space Station, it has taken Russian Soyuz capsules and U.S. space shuttles about two days to reach the orbiting lab after liftoff. Now, NASA and Russia's Federal Space Agency are testing out anew, accelerated schedule. [Soyuz's 1-Day Trip to Space Station Explained (Infographic)]

The quick journey, which takes just four orbits of Earth, has been carried out by recent unmanned cargo spacecraft visiting the space station, but never by a crew.

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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 35/36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy (right), Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov (center) and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin clasp hands for photographers prior to the start of qualification simulation runs in a Soyuz spacecraft mock-up on March 5, 2013.

By Clara MoskowitzSpace.com

Three men are poised to make history today when they blast off on a rocket ride Thursdaythat will reach the International Space faster than any astronauts to fly there before.

NASA astronautChris Cassidyand Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Pavel Vinogradov are due to arrive at the orbiting laboratory just six hours after they launch at 4:43 p.m. EDT. The liftoff will begin a months-long mission in orbit for the three men.

The trio will blast off from the Central Asian spaceport of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The mission's Soyuz rocket rolled out to the launch pad on Tuesdayto prepare for today's liftoff.

You can watch the launch live here onSpace.com's NASA TV feed beginning at 3:30 p.m. EDT.

In the nearly 13 years since crews first began launching to the International Space Station, it has taken Russian Soyuz capsules and U.S. space shuttles about two days to reach the orbiting lab after liftoff. Now, NASA and Russia's Federal Space Agency are testing out anew, accelerated schedule. [Soyuz's 1-Day Trip to Space Station Explained (Infographic)]

The quick journey, which takes just four orbits of Earth, has been carried out by recent unmanned cargo spacecraft visiting the space station, but never by a crew.

NASA / Carla Cioffi

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Revised ride to space station may be faster – but it’s also less comfortable

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NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy gets his spacesuit checked prior to Thursday's launch to the International Space Station. Straps bind Cassidy's knees close to his chest, in the position he'll have to maintain during most of the six-hour trip.

By James Oberg, NBC News Space Analyst

The speedier ride that three spacefliers are taking into orbit on Thursday will get them aboard the roomy International Space Station a lot sooner than on previous Soyuz space missions. It will lower the demand on expensive support teams back on Earth. But there's also an uncomfortable aspect to the shorter flight plan.

That aspect has to do with the Russian-made emergency pressure suits that crew members wear for launch aboard the Soyuz spacecraft. In the past, spacefliers put on the suits several hours before launch, and wore them for about three hours in flight long enough to perform the early rocket maneuvers. Then they took off the suits and put them away until docking, two days later. During most of the trip, the travelers could stretch out in the orbital module, a roomier area of the Soyuz spacecraft.

The situation is different for NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Pavel Vinogradov, the newest crew members to head for the space station. Their trip is taking six hours rather than two days, thanks to a more exacting strategy for orbital navigation. The Soyuz launch from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is scheduled for 4:43 p.m. ET, and arrival at the station is set for 10:31 p.m. ET.

Mike Suffredini, NASA's space station manager, said the flight plan has the benefit of reducing the "amount of time the crew has to spend in a small environment before they get to the ISS." But that six-hour trip will be more intense.

Long stretch in the suits The trio will be wearing their Sokol pressure suits as an essential safety measure, to ensure against the kind of catastrophe that killed three unprotected cosmonauts in 1971 when their cabin suffered an air leak. But the suits are notoriously uncomfortable: They're designedto fit snugly into the tight crew seats, where knees are shoved halfway up to the chest. Arm mobility is restricted to being able to hold a stick to poke critical controls. Oxygen is fed into the suits via short hoses from a nearby console.

It takes hours to remove the suits and clean them, and at least an hour to put them back on and verify pressurization. There's not time for all that during a six-hour trip. As a result, the crew members will have to wear the suits for a much longer period that begins before launch and doesn't end until after docking.

"They are definitely going to have to go to a very tolerant mental system to do this," one former NASA astronaut told NBC News. The spaceflier, who has experience with Soyuz hardware and the Sokol spacesuit, spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak out publicly.

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