A critically important new book on medical errors, Fatal Care: Survive in the U.s. Health System , has just been released. FATAL CARE was written by Dr. Sanjaya Kumar, an eminent expert in patient safety and quality, to raise awareness among consumers of the large number of medical errors in the US healthcare system, and [...]

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Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE:BEC) announced today that it has licensed certain rights to testing for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) from Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics. Under the agreement, Beckman Coulter can develop, manufacture and sell a quantitative viral load HCV blood test for use on the company’s molecular diagnostic instrument, which is in development. As a [...]

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