Baylor’s Cancer Genetics Laboratory at CAP ’12

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The Cancer Genetics Laboratory (CGL) is a combined effort of multiple departments at Baylor College of Medicine. The CGL provides cancer genetic testing along with expert interpretations of the test results. Our extensive menu ranges from karyotyping and FISH analysis to next-generation sequencing and cancer chromosomal microarrays.

Please
look for Baylor College of Medicine’s Cancer Genetics Laboratory (CGL) at the
upcoming College of American Pathologists Annual Meeting in San Diego
(September 9-12 Booth #616).  CGL invites
all to visit the booth and learn more about their new services.  Members of the CGL clinical team will be
available to discuss CGL’s options for clinical pathology testing including:

  • Oncology
    Microarrays
  • Cancer
    Sequencing Panels Using Next-Generation Technology
  • Cancer
    Exome Sequencing

Dr.
Federico Monzon, CGL’s Director of Molecular Pathology will be available to
discuss current & future offerings.

To
schedule a meeting with Dr. Monzon please email Scott Johnson at scottj@bcm.edu.  

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Translational Imaging Impacting Personalized Health. From Cell, To Whole Animal, To Tissue

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The World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) 2012 Annual Meeting in being held in Dublin, Ireland this week (September 5 - 8, 2012).


PerkinElmerLearn more about pathway characterization, therapeutic effect and treatment at the cellular, whole body and tissue level through PerkinElmer's translational imaging solutions. Our broad offering of imaging and analysis solutions enables you to see and understand more in every area of research — from cellular imaging, to in vivo imaging, to pathology. With intuitive, high-performance software, broad portfolio of in vivo imaging reagents and leading imaging systems, effectively translate your research from the bench top and beyond. Visit PerkinElmer at booth #404 at WMIC to experience our translational imaging technologies first-hand.

Hear from Kevin Hrusovsky, SVP & President, PerkinElmer on Translational Imaging Impacting Personalized Health-An Academic and Industry Partnership, September 7, 2012, 6:15 PM - 7:45 PM at WMIC.

Join the WMIC Gala Event on September 8th at the Guinness Storehouse, with music by PerkinElmer's own Molecular Groove. Return to the 80's with us including special guest appearances.

Register for the Gala Event

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Visit http://www.perkinelmer.com/tissueimaging for PerkinElmer’s Digital Pathology tools.

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Journal of Pathology Informatics – New Articles Published

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Utilization and utility of clinical laboratory reports with graphical elements
Brian H Shirts, Nichole Larsen, Brian R Jackson
J Pathol Inform 2012, 3:26 (25 August 2012)
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Diagnosis of dysplasia in upper gastro-intestinal tract biopsies through digital microscopy
Dorina Gui, Galen Cortina, Bita Naini, Steve Hart, Garrett Gerney, David Dawson, Sarah Dry
J Pathol Inform 2012, 3:27 (25 August 2012)
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Dynamic nonrobotic telemicroscopy via skype: A cost effective solution to teleconsultation
Sahussapont J Sirintrapun, Adela Cimic
J Pathol Inform 2012, 3:28 (25 August 2012)
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Experience with CellaVision DM96 for peripheral blood differentials in a large multi-center academic hospital system
Marian A Rollins-Raval, Jay S Raval, Lydia Contis
J Pathol Inform 2012, 3:29 (25 August 2012)
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Different tracks for pathology informatics fellowship training: Experiences of and input from trainees in a large multisite fellowship program
Bruce P Levy, David S McClintock, Roy E Lee, William J Lane, Veronica E Klepeis, Jason M Baron, Maristela L Onozato, JiYeon Kim, Victor Brodsky, Bruce Beckwith, Frank Kuo, John R Gilbertson
J Pathol Inform 2012, 3:30 (30 August 2012)
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A core curriculum for clinical fellowship training in pathology informatics
David S McClintock, Bruce P Levy, William J Lane, Roy E Lee, Jason M Baron, Veronica E Klepeis, Maristela L Onozato, JiYeon Kim, Anand S Dighe, Bruce A Beckwith, Frank Kuo, Stephen Black-Schaffer, John R Gilbertson
J Pathol Inform 2012, 3:31 (30 August 2012)
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Use of a wiki as an interactive teaching tool in pathology residency education: Experience with a genomics, research, and informatics inpathology course
Seung Park, Anil Parwani, Trevor MacPherson, Liron Pantanowitz
J Pathol Inform 2012, 3:32 (30 August 2012)
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PerkinElmer and Massachusetts General Hospital Pathology Collaborate to Develop a Complete Sequencing Informatics System for Cancer Research

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Global leader in life sciences to help leading research hospital advance innovation in cancer research

WALTHAM, Mass., Aug 28, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with Dr. John Iafrate and Dr. Long Le of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Pathology Department and Cancer Center to develop a sequencing informatics system for profiling the genetic changes in tumors for use in advanced cancer research.

Based on PerkinElmer's Geospiza(R) informatics platforms, the new system is expected to help guide the development of cancer treatments by enabling genotype analysis to define key genetic targets from which clinically relevant information can be leveraged. Under the terms of the agreement, PerkinElmer will develop a highly automated sample preparation and data analysis system suitable for cancer genotyping in clinical research at the MGH Pathology Department and Cancer Center. PerkinElmer's Geospiza GeneSifter(R) Laboratory and Analysis edition software platform will be enhanced with sophisticated variant detection algorithms. The new system will also integrate existing laboratory processes and equipment with enhanced LIMS and data analysis capabilities.

The informatics system will support the cancer research of Dr. Long Le and Dr. John Iafrate of the MGH Pathology Department and Cancer Center. "A key challenge presented by next generation sequencing applications in clinical research is not only maintaining high efficiency and throughput via automation solutions, but also ensuring that the informatics driving the instrumentation provides transparency and traceability for the entire process," said Dr. Le.

Kevin Hrusovsky, president of Life Sciences & Technology at PerkinElmer, said, "Working with the MGH Pathology Department and Cancer Center to support their critically important cancer research is a deeply rewarding collaboration and is consistent with our goal to help researchers eradicate this deadly disease. We are delighted to provide MGH with a complete next generation sequencing informatics and sample preparation solution to help advance their medical research."

The MGH Pathology Department and Cancer Center are currently using the high quality service and data from PerkinElmer's DNA Sequencing Services group and deploys PerkinElmer's Sciclone(R) automated liquid handling platform and the NGS Express(TM) Workstation for benchtop sequencers.

For more information on PerkinElmer's Geospiza informatics offering, please visit http://www.geospiza.com

About PerkinElmer, Inc.

PerkinElmer, Inc. is a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment. The Company reported revenue of approximately $1.9 billion in 2011, has about 7,000 employees serving customers in more than 150 countries, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index. Additional information is available through 1-877-PKI-NYSE, or at http://www.perkinelmer.com .

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More technology, better learning resources, better learning? Lessons from adopting virtual microscopy in undergraduate medical education.

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Institution: Center for Learning Research, Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. lhelle@utu.fi.

Abstract

The adoption of virtual microscopy at the University of Turku, Finland, created a unique real-world laboratory for exploring ways of reforming the learning environment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the students' reactions and the impact of a set of measures designed to boost an experimental group's understanding of abnormal histology through an emphasis on knowledge of normal cells and tissues. The set of measures included (1) digital resources to review normal structures and an entrance examination for enforcement, (2) digital course slides highlighting normal and abnormal tissues, and (3) self-diagnostic quizzes. The performance of historical controls was used as a baseline, as previous students had never been exposed to the above-mentioned measures. The students' understanding of normal histology was assessed in the beginning of the module to determine the impact of the first set of measures, whereas that of abnormal histology was assessed at the end of the module to determine the impact of the whole set of measures. The students' reactions to the instructional measures were assessed by course evaluation data. Additionally, four students were interviewed. Results confirmed that the experimental group significantly outperformed the historical controls in understanding normal histology. The students held favorable opinions on the idea of emphasizing normal structures. However, with regards to abnormal histology, the historical controls outperformed the experimental group. In conclusion, allowing students access to high-quality digitized materials and boosting prerequisite skills are clearly not sufficient to boost final competence. Instead, the solution may lie in making students externally accountable for their learning throughout their training. Anat Sci Educ. © 2012 American Association of Anatomists.

Copyright © 2012 American Association of Anatomists.

Anat Sci Educ. 2012 Aug 28. doi: 10.1002/ase.1302. [Epub ahead of print]

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Morbid Anatomy Library Open Hours This Weekend, September 8th and 9th, 11-7, As Part of the Brooklyn Museum's "Go" Open Studio Project

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This weekend--Saturday September 8th and Sunday September 9th--the Morbid Anatomy Library (seen above) will be open from 11-7 as part of the Brooklyn Museum's Go Open Studio Project. So please stop by for a perusal of the stacks, a turn through the drawers, and a conversation with the lovely and very clever Morbid Anatomy Library interns Kelsey Kephart and Dru Munsell.
The Morbid Anatomy Library is located at 543 Union Street at Nevins, Brooklyn, buzzer 1E. To view a map, click here. To For more about the Morbid Anatomy Library and for directions and other such information, click here. For more about the Go Open Studio Project--and to see a full list of participating artists--click here.
Photo of The Library by Shannon Taggart

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Congress for Curious Peoples One-Day Symposium: London Edition, Last Tuesday Society, This Saturday, September 8

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 This Saturday, September 8, you are cordially invited to join myself and a host of distinguished scholars, makers, and museum folk as we investigate, via a one day symposium termed "The Congress for Curious Peoples," some of the provocative intersections explored in the exhibition "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy," on view at the London-based Last Tuesday Society until the end of the month.

This first ever UK edition of The Congress for Curious Peoples will feature participants from The Wellcome Collection, The Wellcome Library, and The Gordon Museum of Pathology, as well as some of my very favorite artists, thinkers and scholars, and will take on such heady topics as enchantment and enlightenment, or the sublimation of the magical into the rational world; the secret life of objects, or the non-rational allure of objects and the psychology of collecting; and beautiful death and incorruptible bodies, or the shared drive to immortalize the human body and aestheticize death in both medicine and Catholicism, and will

Full info follows; hope very very much to see you there!

Congress for Curious Peoples: London Edition
Date: Saturday September 8
Time: 11am - 5:30 pm
Admission: £15.00 (Tickets here)
Location: The Last Tuesday Society
Address: 11 Mare Street, London, E8 4RP
Produced by Morbid Anatomy

11-12: Introduction by Morbid Anatomy's Joanna EbensteinKeynote panel: Enchantment and Enlightenment (20 minute presentations followed by moderated discussion)

12-1: Lunch

1-2:30 The Secret Life of Objects: The Allure of Objects and the Psychology of Collecting (20 minute presentations followed by moderated discussion)

2:30-3:00 Break

3:00-5:30 Beautiful Death and Incorruptible Bodies: Eternal Life and Aestheticized Death in Medicine and Catholicism (15 minute presentations followed by moderated discussion)

You can find out more by clicking here, and purchase tickets by clicking here.

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"Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy" Exhibition Opening Party, This Thursday, September 6

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This Thursday, if you are in London or environs, please join Morbid Anatomy and The Last Tuesday Society for a free and gin-drenched opening party for my new exhibition "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy"! Full details follow. Hope very much to see you there!

"Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses: Visions of Death Made Beautiful in Italy" Exhibition Opening Party
Date: Thursday September 6
Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
Location: The Last Tuesday Society
Address: ***Offsite at 11 Mare Street, London, E8 4RP
Admission: FREE
Produced by Morbid Anatomy
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This Thursday, September 6, if you find yourself in London town, please join us for an opening party for an exhibition of photographs by Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Blog, The Morbid Anatomy Library and Observatory with waxworks by Eleanor Crook and Sigrid Sarda.

In her many projects, ranging from photography to curation to writing, New York based Joanna Ebenstein utilizes a combination of art and scholarship to tease out the ways in which the pre-rational roots of modernity are sublimated into ostensibly "purely rational" cultural activities such as science and medicine.Much of her work uses this approach to investigate historical moments or artifacts where art and science, death and beauty, spectacle and edification, faith and empiricism meet in ways that trouble contemporary categorical expectations.In the exhibition "Ecstatic Raptures and Immaculate Corpses" Ebenstein turns this approach to an examination of the uncanny and powerfully resonant representations of the dead, martyred, and anatomized body in Italy, monuments to humankind's quest to eternally preserve the corporeal body and defeat death in arenas sacred and profane.The artifacts she finds in both the churches, charnel houeses and anatomical museums of Italy complicate our ideas of the proper roles of--and divisions between--science and religion, death and beauty; art and science; eros and thanatos; sacred and profane; body and soul.

In this exhibition, you will be introduced to tantalizing visions of death made beautiful, uncanny monuments to the human dream of life eternal. You will meet "Blessed Ismelda Lambertini," an adolescent who fell into a fatal swoon of overwhelming joy at the moment of her first communion with Jesus Christ, now commemorated in a chillingly beautiful wax effigy in a Bolognese church; The Slashed Beauty, swooning with a grace at once spiritual and worldly as she makes a solemn offering of her immaculate viscera; Saint Vittoria, with slashed neck and golden ringlets, her waxen form reliquary to her own powerful bones; and the magnificent and troubling Anatomical Venuses, rapturously ecstatic life-sized wax women reclining voluptuously on silk and velvet cushions, asleep in their crystal coffins, awaiting animation by inquisitive hands eager to dissect them into their dozens of demountable, exactingly anatomically correct, wax parts.

You can find out more about the show here, and view more images by clicking here.

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Two Conferences on Death, Art and Culture: Calls for Papers

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I have just been alerted to two fabulous looking death and culture conferences both of which are now soliciting papers! Full info for each follows. Apply away!

1) Art and  Death: A Series of Three Workshops
1 November 2012, 21 February and 23 May 2013
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

Call for Papers
Submission by 20 September 2012 for workshop 1 (1 November 2012): Anticipation and Preparation

A series of three workshops will be held at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2012-2013 to explore the inter-relationship between art and death. These workshops have arisen from an informal group of doctoral students with shared interests in funerary monuments. The workshops will be structured to recognize that the certainty of death is accompanied by the foreknowledge and uncertainty of what may come after, and that visual representations of these phases have varied over time and between countries. The first workshop will focus on the images and objects related to the impact that the certainty of death has on individuals and the community; the second on art in the context of dying, death and burial; and the final one on representations of the perceived fate of body and soul after death, as well as the continuation of a relationship (if only in memory) between the living and the dead.

Subjects for the workshops could include, but are not limited to:

Workshop 1 (1 November 2012): Anticipation and Preparation
•    Death insurance? Religious gifts and foundations
•    Protective objects and amulets
•    Tombs commissioned during a lifetime, testamentary desire and fulfilment
•    Contemplating images of death, warnings to the living
•    The cult of the macabre, images of illness and decay
•    Apocalyptic visions

Workshop 2: (21 February 2013): Death and Dying
•    A ‘good death’
•    War and violence
•    Funerals/Professional mourners
•    Funerary monuments, memorial architecture, cemetery design
•    Post-mortem portraits
•    Images of the corpse in painting, sculpture, film, photography, etc
•    Crucifixion imagery
•    Death in museum collections

Workshop 3 (23 May 2013) Life after Death
•    Images of the soul /resurrected or re-incarnated body
•    Depictions of the afterlife
•    The incorruptible body, saints, relics and reliquaries
•    Remembering the dead, commemoration in art and/or performance
•    The ‘immortality’ of the artist, post-mortem reputations

Format and Logistics:
•    Length of paper: 20 minutes
•    Four papers per workshop
•    Location: Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art
•    Timing: 10am-midday
•    Expenses: funds are not available to cover participants’ expenses

We welcome proposals relating to all periods, media and regions (including non-European) and see this as an opportunity for doctoral and early post-doctoral students to share their research.

Please send proposals of no more than 250 words to: Jessica.Barker[at]courtauld.ac.uk and Ann.Adams[at]courtauld.ac.uk by the following dates:

•    20 September 2012 for workshop 1 (1 November 2012): Anticipation and Preparation
•    10 January 2013 for workshop 2 (21 February 2013): Death and Dying
•    11 April 2013 for workshop 3 (23 May 2013): Life after Death

For planning purposes, it would be helpful to have an indication of interest in the later workshops, in advance of submission of a proposal.

Organised by Jessica Barker and Ann Adams (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

2) Graduate Student Conference: “Death: the Cultural Meaning of the End of Life”
January 24–25, 2013
LUCAS (Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society)

This conference aims to explore how death has been represented and conceptualized, from classical antiquity to the modern age, and the extent to which our perceptions and understandings of death have changed (or remained the same) over time. The wide scope of this theme reflects the historical range of LUCAS’s (previously called LUICD) three research programs (Classics and Classical Civilization, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Modern and Contemporary Studies), as well as the intercontinental and interdisciplinary focus of many of the institute’s research projects.

The LUCAS Graduate Conference welcomes papers from all disciplines within the humanities. The topic of your proposal may address the concept of death from a cultural, historical, classical, artistic, literary, cinematic, political, economic, or social viewpoint.

Questions that might be raised include: How have different cultures imagined the end of life? What is the role of art (literature, or cinema) in cultural conceptions of death? How might historical or contemporary conceptualizations of death be related to the construction of our subjectivity and cultural identity? What is the cultural meaning(s) of death? To what extent has modern warfare changed our perceptions of death? How is death presented in the media and how has this changed? In what ways has religion influenced our reflections on death and the afterlife?

Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) to present a 20-minute paper to lucasconference2013[at]gmail.com.

The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2012.

For further information on the first workshop, click here. For further information on the second conference, click here. Special thanks to Lisa Kereszi for turning me onto the latter!

Image: Dead Toreador (Torero Mort). Édouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)

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Lilly Diabetes Launches Mobile Application for Those Who Support People with Type 1 Diabetes

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App serves as a teaching tool and can provide guidance for treatment with Lilly Glucagon for Injection (rDNA origin) during severe hypoglycemic events


Lilly_Glucagon_mobile_app_screenINDIANAPOLIS – September 4, 2012 – Lilly Diabetes today announced the release of a new mobile application designed for caregivers and healthcare providers who support people with type 1 diabetes. The Lilly Glucagon Mobile App is a tool to teach how to use Glucagon for Injection, through simulated practice. Glucagon, 1 mg (1 unit), is indicated to treat severe hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Severe hypoglycemia due to insulin may result in loss of consciousness (insulin coma). The app is designed to help people be more prepared, and also  provide an opportunity to store locations and expiration dates of their Lilly Glucagon Emergency Kits. The Lilly Glucagon Mobile App is now available on the iTunes® store as a free download for iPhone® or iPad® mobile devices.

People with type 1 diabetes who experience severe hypoglycemia during insulin treatment may require glucagon, a hormone produced in the pancreas to raise blood sugar levels. Glucagon. U.S. Library of National Medicine. NIH. Updated September 2010. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0000691/.  Although Glucagon is rarely needed and only used during a severe hypoglycemic event, individuals in the person’s support network, such as family members, teachers, coaches, trusted friends and colleagues, should be trained to give the medicine, which is injected with a syringe. The app can also be used by diabetes educators and school nurses as a teaching tool.


GlucagonappIn type 1 diabetes, the body does not produce insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas in response to an increase in blood sugar, such as after a meal. As many as three million Americans may have type 1 diabetes. Each year more than 15,000 people under age 20 are diagnosed with the disease. Glucagon should not be used in patients who have pheochromocytoma or patients who are allergic to Glucagon.  Patients must inform relatives or close friends that if they become unconscious, medical assistance must always be sought. If a patient is unconscious, Glucagon can be given while awaiting medical assistance.

“Lilly Diabetes is committed to developing personalized solutions to help people with diabetes achieve their treatment goals and improve their outcomes,” said Matt Caffrey, U.S. Product Brand Director, Marketing Specialty, Lilly Diabetes. “The Lilly Glucagon Mobile App leverages the power and reach of mobile technology, providing another opportunity to support people living with type 1 diabetes. Lilly Diabetes is constantly striving to create new and better tools to support the diabetes community in a variety of ways.” 

The Lilly Glucagon Mobile App is an interactive tool to help caregivers better understand Glucagon’s role in diabetes management. Its purpose is to educate and prepare the caregiver on how to use Glucagon in the event of an emergency. The app was developed with input from healthcare providers and people with diabetes.  

The Lilly Glucagon Mobile App includes:
·        Information about severe hypoglycemia and Glucagon 
·        Simulated practice demonstrating how to prepare and inject Glucagon
·        Visual and audio emergency instructions
·        Tools to keep track of kit locations and alerts for expiration dates 
·        Important safety information

Important Safety Information for Glucagon 
What is the most important information about Glucagon?
·        Glucagon should not be used in patients with pheochromocytoma or who may be allergic to glucagon.
·        Patients need to tell their healthcare provider if they have been diagnosed with or have been suspected of having an insulinoma as glucagon should be used cautiously in this situation.
·        Anyone who may need to help patients during an emergency should become familiar with how to use glucagon before an emergency arises. Read the Information for the User provided in the kit.
·        Patients need to make sure that relatives or close friends know that if they become unconscious, medical assistance must always be sought. If a patient is unconscious, glucagon can be given while awaiting medical assistance.
·        The kit must not be used after the date stamped on the bottle label.
·        Questions concerning the use of this product should be directed to a doctor, nurse or pharmacist.

WARNING: PATIENTS MAY BE IN A COMA FROM SEVERE HYPERGLYCEMIA (HIGH BLOOD GLUCOSE) RATHER THAN HYPOGLYCEMIA. IN SUCH A CASE, THE PATIENTS WILL NOT RESPOND TO GLUCAGON AND WILL REQUIRE IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION.

Who should not use glucagon?
Glucagon should not be used in patients who have pheochromocytoma or who are allergic to glucagon.

What should patients tell their doctor before taking glucagon?
Patients should tell their doctor about all medical conditions and prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Patients should tell their doctor if they have been diagnosed with or have been suspected of having pheochromocytoma or an insulinoma.

How should glucagon be used?
·        It is important to act quickly. Prolonged unconsciousness may be harmful.
·        Family and friends need to know to turn the patient on their side to prevent choking if they are unconscious.
·        The contents of the syringe are inactive and must be mixed with the glucagon in the accompanying bottle immediately before giving injection. Glucagon for Injection must not be prepared until it is ready to be used.
·        Glucagon should not be used unless the solution is clear and of a water-like consistency.
·        The usual adult dose is 1 mg (1 unit). For children weighing less than 44 lbs (20 kg), 1/2 adult dose (0.5 mg) is used. For children, 1/2 of the solution from the bottle (0.5 mg mark on syringe) should be withdrawn. The unused portion should be discarded.
·        Patients should eat as soon as they awaken and are able to swallow. A doctor or emergency services must be informed immediately.

What is some important Information about Low Blood Sugar (Hypoglycemia)?
·        Early symptoms of low blood sugar include: sweating, drowsiness, dizziness, sleep disturbances, palpitation, anxiety, tremor, blurred vision, hunger, slurred speech, restlessness, depressed mood, tingling in the hands, feet, lips, or tongue, irritability, lightheadedness, abnormal behavior, inability to concentrate, unsteady movement, headache, and personality changes. These symptoms may be different for each person and can happen suddenly.
·        If low blood sugar is not treated, it may progress to severe low blood sugar that can include: disorientation, seizures, unconsciousness, and death
·        Low blood sugar symptoms should be treated with a quick source of sugar which should always be carried with the patient. If symptoms do not improve or if the patient is unable to take a quick source of sugar, they should be treated with glucagon or with intravenous glucose at a medical facility.

What are the possible side effects of glucagon? 
·        Severe side effects are very rare, although nausea and vomiting may occur occasionally.
·        A few people may be allergic to glucagon or to one of the inactive ingredients in glucagon, or may experience rapid heart beat for a short while.
·        Patients who experience any other reactions which are likely to have been caused by glucagon should contact their doctor.

Patients and caregivers are encouraged to report negative side effects of Prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit http://www.fda.gov/medwatchor call 1-800-FDA-1088.

How should glucagon be stored?
·        Before dissolving glucagon with diluting solution, the kit should be stored at controlled room temperature between 20° to 25°C (68° to 77°F).
·        After glucagon is dissolved with diluting solution, it should be used immediately. Any unused portion should be discarded. Glucagon should be clear and of a water-like consistency at time of use.

For more safety information, please access Information for the User and Information for the Physician.

HI GLUC PR ISI [17JUL12]

The glucagon design is a trademark of Eli Lilly and Company. Glucagon is available by prescription only.

About Lilly Diabetes
Lilly has been a global leader in diabetes care since 1923, when we introduced the world's first commercial insulin. Today we work to meet the diverse needs of people with diabetes through research and collaboration, a broad and growing product portfolio and a continued commitment to providing real solutions—from medicines to support programs and more—to make lives better. For more information, visit http://www.lillydiabetes.com. 

About Eli Lilly and Company 
Lilly, a leading innovation-driven corporation, is developing a growing portfolio of pharmaceutical products by applying the latest research from its own worldwide laboratories and from collaborations with eminent scientific organizations. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN, Lilly provides answers — through medicines and information — for some of the world's most urgent medical needs. Additional information about Lilly is available at http://www.lilly.com. 

 

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NovoPath Showcases Smartphone App at CAP ‘12

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PRINCETON, NJ, September 4, 2012 – NovoPath, Inc., a leader in Anatomic Pathology (AP) Best-of-Breed Software Solutions, announces the first smartphone apps for Android and Apple users, enabling secure on-the-go access to full-length AP reports.  The implementation of NovoNotifier Mobile means clinicians receiving AP reports from NovoPath partner laboratories now have a unique tool at their disposal, assisting in their quest to provide the very best care to their patients.  NovoNotifier Mobile will be featured on the NovoPath booth (#602) at the CAP ’12 Meeting, September 9-12, in San Diego.
 
According to a recent report from iPharma Connect 2012, over 80% of physicians are currently using smartphones, with adoption increasing at a tremendous rate.  Via NovoNotifier Mobile, Anatomic Pathology reports are now available in a continuous real-time portable format to many of these doctors.  NovoNotifier Mobile places results directly into the hands of the busy clinician, regardless of their location – be it in a point-of-care setting, at home, or anywhere in between.  This immediate access to lab generated anatomic pathology test results, enabled by mobile AP reporting, empowers the clinician to respond quicker – a significant improvement for the patient anxiously awaiting their diagnostic or prognostic outcome.
 
To access NovoNotifier Mobile, the clinician (working with a pathology lab using the NovoPath AP LIS Software Solution Version 8.0) is provided secure discreet user ID-based access to their patient’s anatomic pathology reports.  Following initial setup, AP reports are automatically sent via unattended delivery, with a “signal” sent to their smartphone notifying the physician that new reports are awaiting their review, at their convenience.  After viewing the report, the clinician has the option to preserve or delete the file – knowing it will be maintained on the lab’s website.  This affords clinicians the flexibility provided by immediate access, without tying up all the memory in their handheld.
 
Wally Soufi, NovoPath CEO, commented, “Mobile access means our partner lab’s clinicians no longer need to schedule time in their busy day to view web-based patient reports.  Via NovoNotifier Mobile, these same clinicians can now view AP reports in their entirety – in the same customized format developed by their pathology laboratory – anytime, anyplace.  The mobile view is 100% identical to the reports they have come to rely upon on their desktop. NovoPath is pleased to be the first to provide instant access to portable AP reports, and believes that this decrease in turn-around-time will translate to even better patient outcomes.”
About NovoPath, Inc.
 
NovoPath, Inc. develops and markets software solutions for the Anatomic Pathology Laboratory market segment that includes local, regional, national, in-house laboratories as well as community and university teaching hospitals and medical centers. Since the release of its flagship product in 1999, NovoPath, Inc. has focused exclusively on Anatomic Pathology. NovoPath's mission is to provide unique and unparalleled solutions and services to all aspects of the Anatomic Pathology sector in a way that improves workflow, reduces the probability of human error, ensures results accuracy for greater patient safety, protects patient confidentiality, and above all, produces more precise and informative diagnostic outcomes. More information is available at http://www.NovoPath.com.

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NASA's WISE Survey Uncovers Millions of Black Holes

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PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies.

Images from the telescope have revealed millions of dusty black hole candidates across the universe and about 1,000 even dustier objects thought to be among the brightest galaxies ever found. These powerful galaxies, which burn brightly with infrared light, are nicknamed hot DOGs.

"WISE has exposed a menagerie of hidden objects," said Hashima Hasan, WISE program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "We've found an asteroid dancing ahead of Earth in its orbit, the coldest star-like orbs known and now, supermassive black holes and galaxies hiding behind cloaks of dust."

WISE scanned the whole sky twice in infrared light, completing its survey in early 2011. Like night-vision goggles probing the dark, the telescope captured millions of images of the sky. All the data from the mission have been released publicly, allowing astronomers to dig in and make new discoveries.

The latest findings are helping astronomers better understand how galaxies and the behemoth black holes at their centers grow and evolve together. For example, the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, has 4 million times the mass of our sun and has gone through periodic feeding frenzies where material falls towards the black hole, heats up and irradiates its surroundings. Bigger central black holes, up to a billion times the mass of our sun, may even shut down star formation in galaxies.

In one study, astronomers used WISE to identify about 2.5 million actively feeding supermassive black holes across the full sky, stretching back to distances more than 10 billion light-years away. About two-thirds of these objects never had been detected before because dust blocks their visible light. WISE easily sees these monsters because their powerful, accreting black holes warm the dust, causing it to glow in infrared light.

"We've got the black holes cornered," said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., lead author of the WISE black hole study and project scientist for another NASA black-hole mission, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). "WISE is finding them across the full sky, while NuSTAR is giving us an entirely new look at their high-energy X-ray light and learning what makes them tick."

In two other WISE papers, researchers report finding what are among the brightest galaxies known, one of the main goals of the mission. So far, they have identified about 1,000 candidates.

These extreme objects can pour out more than 100 trillion times as much light as our sun. They are so dusty, however, that they appear only in the longest wavelengths of infrared light captured by WISE. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope followed up on the discoveries in more detail and helped show that, in addition to hosting supermassive black holes feverishly snacking on gas and dust, these DOGs are busy churning out new stars.

"These dusty, cataclysmically forming galaxies are so rare WISE had to scan the entire sky to find them," said Peter Eisenhardt, lead author of the paper on the first of these bright, dusty galaxies, and project scientist for WISE at JPL. "We are also seeing evidence that these record setters may have formed their black holes before the bulk of their stars. The 'eggs' may have come before the 'chickens.'"

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Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class with Sue Jeiven, London, Last Tuesday Society, September 29-30, 1-5

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I am so very very excited to announce that Sue Jeiven's is bringing her wonderful and ubiquitously sold out Observatory "Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class" to the London as part of my month-long Morbid Anatomy Presents lineup at The Last Tuesday Society.
There will be two iterations of the class, one on Saturday the 29th and one on Sunday the 30th of September. No former taxidermy experience is required, and you need bring nothing; you will leave with your own taxidermied mouse set in a tableau, and the skills to create your own in the future; past student projects can be seen by clicking here. It must also be mentioned that Sue is a passionate and amazing teacher, and we have had nothing but excellent feedback about her class.
Class size is limited to 15, and, at least in Brooklyn, this class tends to sell out very quickly, so if interested, I suggest you purchase tickets straight away. 
For the Brits among you, you might want to check out this writeup about the Brooklyn iteration of the class in--yes, you guessed it--The Daily Mail, from which the classroom photos above were drawn. You can also watch a brief featurette on Sue and her work in the episode of The Midnight Archive above.
Full details for the class follow; you can purchase tickets by clicking here. Hope very much to see you there!

Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class  with Susan Jeiven
Dates: Saturday the 29th September 2012 and Sunday the 30th September 2012 
Cost: £60.00
Time: 1-5
Location: Last Tuesday Society, 11 Mare Street London E8 4RP

Anthropomorphic taxidermy–the practice of mounting and displaying taxidermied animals as if they were humans or engaged in human activities–was a popular art form during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The best known practitioner of the art form is British taxidermist Walter Potter who displayed his pieces–which included such elaborate tableaux as The Death of Cock Robin, The Kitten Wedding, and The Kitten Tea Party–in his own museum of curiosities.

We invite you to join taxidermist, tattoo artist and educator Susan Jeiven for a beginners class in anthropomorphic taxidermy. All materials–including a mouse for each student–will be provided, and each class member will leave at the end of the day with their own anthropomorphic taxidermied mouse. Students are invited to bring any miniature items with which they might like to dress or decorate their new friend; some props and miniature clothing will also be provided by the teacher. A wide variety of sizes and colors of mice will be available.

No former taxidermy experience is required.

Also, some technical notes:

  • We use NO harsh or dangerous chemicals.
  • Everyone will be provided with gloves.
  • All animals are disease free.
  • Although there will not be a lot of blood or gore, a strong constitution is necessary; taxidermy is not for everyone.
  • All animals were already dead, nothing was killed for this class. All mice used are feeder animals for snakes and lizards and would literally be discarded if not sold.
  • Please do not bring any dead animals with you to the class

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LAMBERTVILLE: Medicine drop at cityâs police headquarters

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LAMBERTVILLE The Lambertville City Police Department has become the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs newest partner in the Project Medicine Drop program.

Under the program, both residents and non-residents may dispose of unused or expired medications anonymously, seven days a week, 365 days a year, at the new drop box in the lobby of Police Headquarters, 349 N. Main St., Lambertville.

Police Director Bruce Cocuzza said the drop box is accessible weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

At all other times, those wishing to dispose of medications will be provided access by reaching an officer via the call box located next to the entrance door to headquarters.

The importance of this resource cannot be overstated as prescription drug abuse is a growing epidemic that results in an estimated 15,000 deaths annually in this country, the director said.

The program provides a safe, secure and convenient way to dispose of prescription drugs. It also helps prevent addiction, harmful overdoses and accidental death.

Medicines that languish in home medicine cabinets are highly susceptible to theft and misuse. Even if we keep only a few pills from ending up at pill parties or in our waterways, this effort will have served a valuable purpose, said City Councilman Wardell Sanders.

The DEA has reported that prescription drugs, including opioids and antidepressants, account for more overdose deaths than illegal drugs, such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines.

The Project Medicine Drop program, introduced in 2011, is fashioned after the US Drug Enforcement Administrations National Take Back Initiative, an annual campaign that offers medication disposal to the public on selected dates each year.

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Liberty County civic leader, champion jelly cook dies

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C.T. "Rusty" Hight, known for his wide-ranging talents in roles ranging from a Liberty County jurist to a master gardener, died Wednesday. He was 65.

Hight learned he had a "small speck of cancer" five weeks before it took over his body, said his sister, Nelda Zbranek.

But she and others who knew him will never forget how he prayed for "God to help him do the right thing" each time he put on his black robe to serve as the 75th state district judge from 2002 to 2010.

And he didn't mind trading that robe for an apron. He loved to cook up a pot of his award-winning jelly made with the tart juice from marble-sized mayhaws, a native fruit found in East Texas swamps.

He would spend hours collecting just the right mayhaws to simmer over the stove in a rustic cabin in his backyard in Dayton.

Over the last two decades, his jelly was often pronounced the blue ribbon winner at the annual Mayhaw Festival in Daisetta.

His gardening skills were also apparent in the bountiful supply of vegetables he grew in his backyard, some so large that they looked like they could set a world record.

He also served many years as a Dayton school trustee.

One of his proudest moments came when he was able to hand a diploma to his daughter, Laura, who was still recovering after emerging from a 4-month coma.

She had been badly injured in a car accident that claimed the life of a school friend two years earlier. Medical personnel had not expected her to live.

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Northwestern Memorial expands into northern suburbs

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Northwestern Memorial HealthCare is making a hard push into the northern suburbs, planting its flag firmly in a market dominated by a pair of established competitors before President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is implemented.

Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group, the hospital system's wholly owned primary-care doctors' group, plans to open nine new clinics by spring 2013 from Chicago's North Side to near the Wisconsin border.

Four of the clinics already are open, including sites in Grayslake, Highland Park, Lake Forest and a combination primary care and urgent care center in Lakeview that started accepting patients late last month. Another in Evanston is projected to open in October.

Administrators expect to add as many as 100 new physicians over the next two years, roughly doubling the number of doctors in the Physicians Group today.

The expansion, estimated to cost about $20 million, comes on the heels of the system's 2010 acquisition of Lake Forest Hospital, its first acute-care outpost beyond its core offerings in the city. It also places Northwestern in direct competition with a pair of deep-pocketed rivals: NorthShore University HealthSystem and Advocate Health Care.

Although Northwestern officials insist the move is not an attempt to wrest market share away from its competitors, Ed Giniat, who leads the consulting firm KPMG's health care sector, said the hospital "is starting to throw the gantlet down on a fairly fractured market."

The Northwestern expansion also comes in advance of the 2014 implementation of the health care overhaul, which already has spurred changes in how and where health care is delivered.

The new model places greater importance on primary care physicians, who will take on additional responsibilities in managing patient groups. That has led to a spending spree by hospital systems, which are competing to align with doctors' groups that will be counted on to act as a feeder network of patients.

In Northwestern's case, it is seeking to widen the pipeline of patients to its flagship Streeterville hospital.

"People keep rediscovering the fact that (primary care doctors) are probably the best, most efficient and economical entree into the system," said Dr. Daniel Derman, president of Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group.

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Both parties highlight personal health struggles

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Yesterday at 8:30 PM GOP convention speakers seek to humanize Romney, and Democrats stand up for health care reform.

By SANDHYA SOMASHEKHAR The Washington Post

This year, the political conventions got personal. Extremely so.

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Stacey Lihn addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte last week as her husband, Caleb, listens with daughters Zoe, left, and Emerson. Lihn credited the Affordable Care Act with saving one daughters life.

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From heart-rending tales of premature babies to tactfully described female disorders, the organizers of the Republican and Democratic conventions featured deeply personal stories of health struggles that in previous years might have been more at home on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" than at the podium of a national political event.

There's no mystery as to why. For months, the presidential race has been fought at 30,000 feet, with the candidates spouting off on esoteric ideas about the role of government and who has better ideas about health care and the economy. Voters have had little opportunity to connect with those ideas -- or the men espousing them -- on a personal level.

That changed when Republicans gathered in Tampa to formally choose Mitt Romney as their nominee and to introduce him to a voting public that has been slow to warm to him personally. The trend continued last week, as Democrats assembled in Charlotte tried to solidify their advantage with female voters and cast as positively as possible President Obama's signature health-care law.

"It humanizes and personalizes the politics, that it's not just about policy it's also about people," said Frank Luntz, a Republican media consultant. "Whenever policy is put in people terms, that's when it succeeds."

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Those who ignore history vote for GOP

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Alf Landon, 1936 Republican candidate for president, attacked Social Security as a philosophical and economic disaster.Courtesy photo

September 09, 2012 2:00 AM

The debate over national health care dubbed "ObamaCare" has been going on for many years. After the bill was placed into law, the Supreme Court was asked to make a decision whether or not the law was constitutional. If one looks back in history to 1935, when the Social Security Act was being debated during a presidential election, one can clearly see the similarities.

Alf Landon, the 1936 Republican candidate for president, spoke of problems we are hearing today. Landon made what he called "the bungling and waste" of Social Security the key to his presidential campaign, and his opposition to Social Security, along with the arguments President Franklin Roosevelt voiced in defending Social Security against Landon, offers a history lesson that deserves our attention.

Alf Landon's speech attacked Social Security, which was due to begin collecting contributions on Jan. 1, 1937, as a philosophical and economic disaster. He stated: "This law is unjust, unworkable, stupidly drafted and wastefully financed."

This does sound like the Republican arguments of the 2012 election.

Landon argued that Social Security was "paternal government," at its worst. "It assumes that Americans are irresponsible. It assumes that old-age pensions are necessary because Americans lack the foresight to provide for their old age." The contribution Social Security required from the employer, Landon argued, was sure to be "imposed" on the consumer, while the contribution Social Security required from the worker was too much for him to bear.

History is an interesting thing to read and understand. If one would change Alf Landon's name to Mitt Romney, or most of the Republican leadership, the text would have the same concepts.

Landon went on to state that, "As if that were not enough, the "vast army of clerks" required to administer Social Security, would create a bloated bureaucracy that would be a "cruel hoax" on American workers. There was, he predicted, "every probability that the cash they pay in will be used for current deficits and new extravagances," and in the end impoverishes the system. "If the present compulsory insurance plan remains in force, our old people are only too apt to find the cupboard bare."

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