Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Healthcare News Update

Healthcare News

A Weekly Compilation of Clinical Laboratory and Related Information
From The Division Of Laboratory Programs, Standards And Services

February 26, 2015

News Highlights  

Leading News

• New Approach to Blocking H.I.V. Raises Hopes for an AIDS Vaccine
• Ebola Containment Strategy Succeeding in Liberia
• We Could Cut the HIV Transmission Rate by More than 90 Percent, CDC Says

Laboratory Testing / Diagnostics

• FDA Clears Sale of First Direct-to-consumer Genetic Test
• In NEJM, Lander Lauds Steps at FDA to Build New Regulatory Framework for Genomic Tests
• More-accurate Cancer Tests Based on Computer Math

Research and Development

• Project Sheds Light on What Drives Genes
• Engineered Biomarkers Could ID Cancer Cells
• Small Study Links Lack of Sleep to Type 2 Diabetes Risk

Public Health and Patient Safety

• Long-term Effects of High Cholesterol
• NIH Expands Key Tuberculosis Research Program
• Vaccine that Targets 9 Strains of HPV Boosts Cancer Protection, Study Says

Health IT and Other

• Progress with Electronic Health Record Adoption among Emergency and Outpatient Departments: United States, 2006–2011
• Hospital to Let Patients Add to Own EHRs

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