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From Dream to Truth, E-Journal of IFBLS Launched |
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As a new council member of IFBLS, TSLM (Taiwan Society of Laboratory Medicine) and I are proud and feel much obliged to accept the assignment by President Gry Andersen to create the e-journal for IFBLS. After our diligent work for months, we are pleased to present our fruitful results to all IFBLS members. Meanwhile, I have been encouraged and supported from council members especially President Gry, Vincent, Tom as well as Kyoko who is the leader of the expert group. After then, I had lots of brainstorms with my working group in Taiwan during many meetings all through the night. In addition, we went through countless website functional tests and designs. With all these efforts, we eventually finalized and reached a conclusion for this project.
The continual improvement of performance in biomedical laboratory science (BLS) is the golden rule of our career. The establishment of academic journals is considered to be a foundation to achieve this goal. The purpose of the e-journal is to provide a quick access platform to exchange advanced knowledge and publish academic research articles in BLS. Under the assignment of IFBLS Council, our team started the budget planning and sketched out the format of e-journal. After plan-do-check-action cycling, the final e-journal (International Journal of BLS) has been launched in the mid of March, 2010. The journal is devoted to the dissemination of new knowledge concerning the biomedical laboratory sciences. The journal contains sections which include clinical chemistry, hematology, microbiology, serology and immunology, clinical microscopy, education and others. In addition, we hope that we can make more efforts for our IFBLS family in the world. Finally, we expect and appreciate if all of you can support this new born e-journal as well as summit your academic performance results to here. 
Chuan-Liang Kao
Editor in Chief, International Journal of BLS and Board director of IFBLS
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IFBLS launches scientific e-journal |
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IFBLS proudly announces that the International Journal of Biomedical Laboratory Science (IJBLS) is now available and ready to receive scientific articles. IFBLS' president Gry Andersen is grateful for the big effort from our colleagues in Taiwan to follow up the request from the council to prepare and launch a scientific journal on behalf of IFBLS. This is a big accomplishment, and to make sure this will be a success we need active scientists to publish their articles in the journal. Professor Chuan-Liang Kao is Editor in Chief. The website of IJBLS is now open for submissions of manuscripts, and members are encouraged to contribute. Read more at the journal website www.ijbls.org. |
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Researchers Develop Cancer Blood Test from DNA on Tumors |
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The Wall Street Journal (2/19, Winslow) reports that, according to findings in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers used the DNA of tumors to design a blood test that may help tailor cancer treatment based on whether patients are disease free or require more aggressive care. They used DNA from patients with breast or colon cancer to detect alterations in large segments of the genome of cancer cells. |
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WHO Say Regular Flu Vaccines Should Protect Against H1N1 |
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The AP (2/19, Cheng) reports that the World Health Organization is encouraging swine flu "to be added to regular flu vaccines next season," as health officials expect H1N1 to "remain a significant threat." WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the swine flu vaccine should be combined with the vaccine for regular flu, "after the agency met this week to decide which strains should be recommended to drugmakers for vaccines." Fukuda stressed, however, that "the recommendation to put the (swine flu) virus into the vaccine for the fall and winter is really a separate issue from whether the pandemic is over." The agency "will hold a meeting of experts Tuesday to discuss whether the pandemic has peaked...said" Fukuda. |
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Rapid Influenza Diagnostic Test Said to be Good but Not Perfect |
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HealthDay (2/15, Edelson) reported that, according to two studies published in the journal Pediatrics, "a widely available rapid influenza diagnostic test is good, but not perfect, in determining whether a child has" either the seasonal or H1N1 flu.
MedPage Today (2/15, Neale) reported that in the first study, researchers found that "the BinaxNOW test had a sensitivity of just 45% (95% CI 43.3% to 46.3%)," whereas "the same test had a sensitivity of 62% (95% CI 52% to 70%) in a second study." Interestingly, "using real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction as the reference, the sensitivity of the rapid test was higher in infants and children younger than two compared with older kids (57.6% versus 43.4%)." In newborns, "the sensitivity was 66.7%."
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