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The Longstreet Clinic, PC, is pleased to offer patients the convenience of a full service on-site diagnostic laboratory in Gainesville, Ga. Services provided include: Hematology, Immunoassay, Routine chemistry, Serology. Microbiology. The broad range of testing availability allows our physicians to provide the highest quality health care to our patients in both a timely and cost-effective manner. The Longstreet Clinic Central Laboratory is a stat laboratory and draw center for LabCorp.

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Research and Markets: Essential GMP for Microbiologists (Certified) – E-Learning Course

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/m4vr85/elearning_course) has announced the addition of the "E-Learning Course - Essential GMP for Microbiologists (Certified)" training to their offering.

This course covers everything an entry-level microbiologist needs to know about current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) in a microbiological laboratory.

It begins by introducing the different types of microorganisms that can contaminate medicinal products. It then goes on to introduce GMP and explain its importance in a microbiology laboratory and the rules and guidelines for handling infectious material.

This course consists of the following e-learning modules:

(1) Basic Microbiology

Introduces microorganisms and the impact they have on pharmaceutical products.

(2) GMP for Microbiology

The importance of GMP in a microbiology laboratory and the rules and guidelines for handling infectious material.

This is a self paced highly visual interactive e-Learning Module, with a full audio voiceover, which can be taken online. It has a 16 question multiple choice Assessment which the Trainee can perform once they have completed the module. For the Certified option, a hard copy certificate is mailed to the Trainee, once they have achieved a score of 100% in their Assessment.

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Research and Markets: Republic of Korea In Vitro Diagnostics Market Outlook to 2018 – Clinical Chemistry Genetic …

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9s9n8d/republic_of_korea) has announced the addition of GlobalData's new report "Republic of Korea In Vitro Diagnostics Market Outlook to 2018 - Clinical Chemistry Genetic Testing, Haematology, Histology and Cytology, Immuno Chemistry, Infectious Immunology and Microbiology Culture" to their offering.

This report provides key market data on the Republic of Korea In Vitro Diagnostics market. The report provides value (USD million), volume (units) and average price (USD) data for each segment and sub-segment within market categories - Immuno Chemistry, Infectious Immunology, Clinical Chemistry, Haematology, Microbiology Culture, Histology And Cytology and Genetic Testing. The report also provides company shares and distribution shares data for each of the aforementioned market categories. The report is supplemented with global corporate-level profiles of the key market participants with information on company financials and pipeline products, wherever available.

This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by a team of industry experts.

Scope

- Market size and company share data for In Vitro Diagnostics market categories - Immuno Chemistry, Infectious Immunology, Clinical Chemistry, Haematology, Microbiology Culture, Histology And Cytology and Genetic Testing.

- Annualized market revenues (USD million), volume (units) and average price (USD) data for each of the segments and sub-segments within market categories. Data from 2004 to 2011, forecast forward for 7 years to 2018.

- 2011 company shares and distribution shares data for each of the market categories.

- Global corporate-level profiles of key companies operating within the Republic of Korea In Vitro Diagnostics market.

Key players covered include:

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Research and Markets: Mexico In Vitro Diagnostics Market Outlook to 2018 – Clinical Chemistry Genetic Testing …

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/xls83g/mexico_in_vitro) has announced the addition of GlobalData's new report "Mexico In Vitro Diagnostics Market Outlook to 2018 - Clinical Chemistry Genetic Testing, Haematology, Histology and Cytology, Immuno Chemistry, Infectious Immunology and Microbiology Culture" to their offering.

This new report, Mexico In Vitro Diagnostics Market Outlook to 2018- Clinical Chemistry Genetic Testing, Haematology, Histology and Cytology, Immuno Chemistry, Infectious Immunology and Microbiology Culture provides key market data on the Mexico In Vitro Diagnostics market. The report provides value (USD million), volume (units) and average price (USD) data for each segment and sub-segment within market categories - Immuno Chemistry, Clinical Chemistry, Haematology, Infectious Immunology, Histology And Cytology, Microbiology Culture and Genetic Testing. The report also provides company shares and distribution shares data for each of the aforementioned market categories. The report is supplemented with global corporate-level profiles of the key market participants with information on company financials and pipeline products, wherever available.

Scope

- Market size and company share data for In Vitro Diagnostics market categories - Immuno Chemistry, Clinical Chemistry, Haematology, Infectious Immunology, Histology And Cytology, Microbiology Culture and Genetic Testing.

- Annualized market revenues (USD million), volume (units) and average price (USD) data for each of the segments and sub-segments within market categories. Data from 2004 to 2011, forecast forward for 7 years to 2018.

- 2011 company shares and distribution shares data for each of the market categories.

- Global corporate-level profiles of key companies operating within the Mexico In Vitro Diagnostics market.

Companies Mentioned

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

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Research and Markets: Microbiology Laboratory Practices (Certified) – E-Learning Course

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/s7b3jt/elearning_course) has announced the addition of the "E-Learning Course - Microbiology Laboratory Practices (Certified)" training to their offering.

This course covers the key critical techniques and practices that are required knowledge for all competent microbiologists.

It covers basic microbiological techniques such as media preparation, pure culture techniques and the pour plate technique. The application of good aseptic technique to microbiological testing is described in detail.

A key tool in microbiology - the microscope - is comprehensively covered by explaining its main components and key microscopic techniques.

The main categories of staining - simple, differential, and structural - are described along with the different staining techniques commonly used in a microbiology laboratory. Finally, the concept of unknown bacterial identification is explained and the morphological and cultural tests carried out to identify unknowns.

Certificate

There is a 16 question assessment associated with each lesson within the Course and we offer a Certificate Service in which Users who achieve 100% in the assessment associated with each Lesson of a Course are deemed to have passed the Course, and are posted a Certificate.

Modules Covered:

(1) Principles of Good Aseptic Technique

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Edmond centenarian shares secrets to longevity

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January 22, 2013 Edmond centenarian shares secrets to longevity

Anonymous Special to The Sun The Edmond Sun Tue Jan 22, 2013, 09:59 PM CST

EDMOND Edmond resident Winnie Harmon celebrated her 100th birthday this month with 30 family members at her home at Grace Living Center Edmond. Enjoying social gatherings is one of her secrets to longevity.

Born Jan. 5, 1913, Harmon was one of 10 children and grew up on a farm east of Norman, learning social skills and a work ethic that would serve her well in life.

A career woman, Harmon worked in retail sales at Rothschilds, an upscale Oklahoma City department store. She never drove and instead took the bus to work and anywhere else beyond walking distance.

I always enjoyed helping people and sometimes wish Id become a nurse, Harmon said.

Doing volunteer work and a having a sense of humor were two other factors in Harmons long life.

Harmon said she always dressed up and took good care of herself. She never smoked or drank alcohol. She ate oatmeal for breakfast every day and still enjoys her coffee in the morning.

Never married, instead Harmon plays Auntie to many nieces and nephews. For years, she also enjoyed the company of and caring for her pet dachshund.

Now, Harmon enjoys the social life at Grace where she shares coffee klatches with her friends and attending the many parties and events at the home.

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Winchester approves longevity bonuses

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By Casey Castle The Winchester Sun

Some city employees finally got a longevity increase thanks to a measure approved by the Winchester Board of Commissioners Tuesday night.

The city met in special session Tuesday after rescheduling its January meetings last month.

The approved order moves the cap for employees serving for longer than 25 years, giving each pay grade a wider range of pay. This allows employees who had already reached the maximum salary to continue to get time-in-service bumps for working more than 25 years.

Their only opportunity for an increase is if theres a budgeted across-the-board raise, said J.R. Wilhite, interim city manager. There are just a handful of employees that this would impact, so its not a significant cost.

Wilhite said the measure would immediately affect about five employees and cost the city less than $3,000.

Its continuing the same step increases that are available for them in their first 25 years of service, he said. You certainly want to do what you can to encourage folks who have good experience to stay working.

In other business, the board also:

Approved a measure reclassifying property at 134 S. Maple St. and 103 W. Hickman St. from residential to downtown business.

Approved orders appointing Nick Bailey to the Winchester Tree Board, accepting the resignation of Doug Beltzner from the same board and appointing Drew Graham to finish Beltzners term.

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How can evolutionary biology explain why we get cancer?

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Jan. 22, 2013 Over 500 billion cells in our bodies will be replaced daily, yet natural selection has enabled us to develop defenses against the cellular mutations which could cause cancer. It is this relationship between evolution and the body's fight against cancer which is explored in a new special issue of the Open Access journal Evolutionary Applications.

"Cancer is far from a single well-defined disease which we can identify and eradicate," said Dr Athena Aktipis, Director, Human and Social Evolution, Center for Evolution and Cancer at the University of California, San Francisco. "It is highly diverse and evolutionary theory allows us to consider cancer as a highly complex and evolving ecosystem. This approach can improve the understanding, treatment and prevention of a number of different cancer types."

By applying the principles of evolutionary biology papers in the special issue ask: Why do we get cancer, despite the body's powerful cancer suppression mechanisms? How do evolutionary principles like natural selection, mutation, and genetic drift, work in a cancer ecosystem? How can we use evolutionary theory to minimize the rate of cancers worldwide?

"Nowhere is the diversity of cancer better revealed than the many reasons why we remain vulnerable to it," said Dr Aktipis. "Evolutionary medicine allows us to see explanations for traits that leave organisms vulnerable to disease."

These evolutionary explanations include the role of environmental factors, such as the relationship between tobacco availability and lung cancer; co-evolution with fast evolving pathogens; constraints on what selection can do; trade-offs, such as the capacity for tissue repair vs. risk of cancer; reproductive success at the expense of health; defenses with costs as well as benefits, such as inflammation.

"An evolutionary approach can unite and explain the many avenues of cancer research by allowing us to see cancer as an ecosystem," concluded Dr Aktipis. "Just as a forest depends on the individual characteristics of trees as well as the interactions of each tree with its environment; similarly tumors can be [composed of] genetically distinct cells, which depend on both cell-to-cell interactions within the tumor, as well as on the interactions of tumor itself with the body."

This special issue is collaboration between scientists from the Darwinian Evolution of Cancer Consortium in France and the Center for Evolution and Cancer at the University of California, San Francisco. The issue is guest edited by Frederic Thomas, Michael Hochberg, Athena Aktipis, Carlo Maley and Ursula Hibner.

Papers from the Evolution and Cancer Special Issue are all freely available on the Evolutionary Applications website: http://www.evolutionaryapplications.org

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