UPDATE: Victim of apparent suicide identified
Dec 30th
COLUMBIA — The man found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in University Avenue parking garage Thursday has been identified. MU police confirmed that the apparent suicide victim was Jonathan L. DeHaven, 55. He was a chief laboratory animal technician at MU's Office of Animal Resources, according to an MU police news release. MU police have formally ruled the death as a suicide and ...
Health careers center expands ‘campus location’
Dec 29th
LUVERNE — Students at Minnesota West Community and Technical College's Luverne Center soon will enjoy a larger facility once a remodeling project is complete. The Luverne Educational Center for Health Careers opened in
William Magruder Waters, engineer
Dec 28th
Electrical engineer and inventor worked in radar imagining at Hopkins and the Naval Research Laboratory William Magruder Waters, a retired Johns Hopkins and Navy electrical engineer and inventor who built his own car and held patents related to radar imaging, died of congestive heart failure Dec. 17 at Renaissance Gardens at Oak Crest Village. He was 86.
Rapid Hepatitis C Test [Health Agencies Update]
Dec 27th
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a waiver allowing the first rapid blood test for hepatitis C virus (HCV) to be distributed to and used at physician's offices, health departments, and other nonlaboratory sites.
Special Issue of Point of Care Highlights Patient Safety and Avoiding Medical Errors
Dec 27th
Many medical tests that once required sending samples to a laboratory and waiting for results can now be rapidly performed at the patient's bedside. As these point-of-care testing (POCT) technologies are increasingly integrated into patient care, careful attention is needed to protect patient safety and avoid medical errors, according to this month's special issue of Point of Care: The Journal ...
Greenwich gets $100K state grant to renovate lab
Dec 23rd
Tick specimens at the Greenwich Department of Health, which recently received a $100,000 Small Town Economic Assistance Program grant from the state to renovate and expand its laboratory.
Recruitment officer completes one year in Portsmouth
Dec 23rd
By RYAN SCOTT OTTNEY PDT Staff Writer Staff Sergeant Ashley Atkinson this month will complete the first year of her four-year assignment as U.S. Air Force recruitment officer, at the Recruitin...
City attains temporary accreditation for water testing lab
Dec 22nd
The city of Midland Utilities Laboratory this month received temporary accreditation to test water samples.
Ombud orders filing of charges vs. ex-crime lab head, personnel
Dec 21st
THE anti-graft body ordered the filing of charges against a retired police official and a police officer for allegedly faking a macro-etching certificate to an allegedly carnapped vehicle. The Office of the Deputy Ombudsman for the Military and Other Law Enforcement Offices filed the case of falsification against retired police Insp.
Former PNP Crime Lab chief, 3 others face criminal raps
Dec 21st
The Office of the Deputy Ombudsman for the Military and other Law Enforcement Offices indicted Retired Police Superintendent Myrna Areola and three others for violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.
