A national study involving a UT Southwestern Medical Center neonatologist and pediatric infectious diseases specialist suggests that a screening test routinely performed in newborns is not very good ...

When we found out we were expecting our third child, we were overjoyed. No pregnancy is easy, of course, and we already had our hands full with two little ones. But this was our third time around, and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA approved the first in vitro diagnostic test used to monitor cytomegalovirus treatment in hematopoietic ...

First FDA-approved laboratory test for quantifying DNA of potentially deadly virus helps physicians manage organ transplant patients on antiviral therapy "With this new test, diagnostic laboratories ...

The heel-stick procedure, a routine screening test for several metabolic and genetic disorders in newborns, is not effective in screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of ...

- CMV is the most common and serious viral infection in transplant patients - The cobas® CMV test provides reliable, reproducible, high-quality results for clinical decision-making - CMV viral load ...

In Minnesota, there are currently about 60 diseases that all newborns are screened for at birth using a heel prick and a few drops of blood. Of all the screenable disorders combined, newborn infection ...

Assay will help monitor the effects of antiviral therapy in organ transplant patients. Roche’s Cobas® AmpliPrep/Cobas TaqMan® CMV test for evaluating cytomegalovirus (CMV) load received FDA premarket ...

What happens in the body during a CMV infection? When CMV causes an infection for the first time, it is called a primary infection. Just as with all infections, the body begins to fight CMV by ...

In Minnesota, there are currently about 60 diseases that all newborns are screened for at birth using a heel prick and a few drops of blood. Of all the screenable disorders combined, newborn infection ...