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ESNFD Presentation
On September 29, 2011, Precision Pathology held a dinner presentation at the Silo on Epidermal Small Nerve Fiber Density Testing.
Popular Mammography Tool Not Effective for Finding Invasive Breast Cancer
Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology is ineffective in finding breast tumors, and appears to increase a woman’s risk of being called back needlessly for additional testing following mammography, a large UC Davis study has found.
Court Ruling on BRCA Case
A federal appeals court today partially reversed a lower court's ruling in a case challenging patents on two human genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. The court ruled that companies can obtain patents on the genes but cannot patent methods to compare those gene sequences.
Medical Center Adds Less Invasive Biopsy
St. Joseph Medical Center is offering stereotactic breast biopsies — a safe, fast and precise way to test breast tissue samples without surgery.
CMS to Conduct Public Meeting on Genetic, Molecular Laboratory Test Billing
Changes in how the Medicare program will reimburse pathology groups and clinical laboratories for genetic tests and molecular diagnostic assays will be one of the important topics at an upcoming meeting in Baltimore.