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The Van Slyke Foundation is AACC’s philanthropic program, dedicated to encouraging and supporting deserving clinical laboratory scientists and students around the world through a variety of grants, awards, scholarships and other programs designed to share the latest and best in clinical laboratory science and technology and improve health care worldwide.
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| Predicting Post-Treatment Prostate Cancer Outcomes | | Several studies have associated post-treatment prostate-specific antigen (PSA) nadir with prostate cancer outcomes. However, most of these analyses have evaluated absolute PSA nadir, which poses statistical challenges since PSA nadir is a time-dependent variable. | |
| | Nominations Being Accepted for the 2010 SYCL Service Award | | This award recognizes a SYCL member who has demonstrated exceptional contributions to the field of clinical chemistry through service to AACC. The recipient will be recognized and given an honorary plaque at the SYCL Reception at the 2010 Annual AACC meeting. The deadline is April 30, 2010. | |
| | Nominations for Carl Jolliff Award | | The Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology Division invites nominations of individuals deserving recognition for lifetime achievement in the field of clinical and diagnostic immunology. Sponsored by Beckman Coulter and named in honor of Carl Jolliff, the award is open to current AACC members. | |
| | Receive a 10% discount on AACC Press Web orders! | | Receive a 10% discount on any publication ordered through AACC Online Bookstore during our winter sale. If you are an AACC member, the discount will be in addition to your regular member discount. To receive your discount, enter promotion code 90 after you place your first item in the shopping cart and press "apply." Offer good from now through March 31, 2010. | |
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| Health ad campaigns emerge in final days of debate | | As Congress approaches a possible finale to its year-long health debate, advertisements that attempt to influence the results have flooded airwaves, Time reports. "Across the country, groups on all sides of the health care reform debate have been targeting swing members of Congress with costly ad campaigns." Firms, industry groups, unions and advocacy organizations could spend $24 million this week alone, on top of $200 million already spent on health overhaul-related ads (Scherer, 3/16). |
| | BioVigil's second generation hand hygiene monitoring system released | | BioVigil LLC has released the second generation of the BioVigil hand hygiene monitoring system. The innovative system enables hospitals to more effectively combat Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) by dramatically increasing hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers. |
| | National, state efforts seek to reduce medical errors | | The Wall Street Journal: "Errors made by doctors, nurses and other medical caregivers cause 44,000 to 98,000 deaths a year. Hospital infections, many considered preventable, take another 100,000 lives. ... Hospitals are taking what might seem like a surprising approach to confronting the problem: Not only are they trying to improve safety and reduce malpractice claims, they're also coming up with procedures for handling—and even consoling—staffers who make inadvertent mistakes." |
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AACC (American Association for Clinical Chemistry) AACC is a leading professional society dedicated to improving healthcare through laboratory medicine. Its nearly 10,000 members are clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists, and others involved in developing tests and directing laboratory operations. AACC brings this community together with programs that advance knowledge, expertise, and innovation. AACC is best known for the respected scientific journal Clinical Chemistry, the award-winning patient-centered web site Lab Tests Online, and the world’s largest conference on laboratory medicine and technology. Through these and other programs, AACC advances laboratory medicine and the quality of patient care. Join AACC.
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