According to C.D.C., the shortage was caused when one of the pharmaceutical companies that manufactured the vaccine, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, stopped producing it, leaving only Aventis Pasteur to make enough for the entire country.
During the major part of the study all isolates were also tested for susceptibility to SM, except for the years 2004 2008, when two laboratories stopped routine testing for SM-resistance.
During the major part of the study all isolates were also tested for susceptibility to streptomycin (SM), except for the years 2004 2010, when the Linköping and Stockholm laboratories stopped testing for SM-resistance, since SM no longer was used for treatment of TB patients in Sweden.
At the end of December 2003, three of the 5 clinical laboratories stopped sending isolates to MDCH, citing economic and staffing barriers.
When some laboratories stopped performing cultures for E. coli O157 and switched to testing for Shiga toxin, the ability to detect outbreaks and monitor trends in E. coli O157 was threatened.
In addition to using helicopters to spirit agents to remote locations and seize drugs in transit, the U.S. has tried paying coca farmers to switch crops, spraying herbicides out of helicopters, raiding jungle laboratories, stopping and searching small fishing boats, forcing down aircraft, tapping phones, hiring informants, and extraditing drug lords.
Mornings begin with that nice young man from the laboratory stopping by to collect blood to check the platelet count.
Discontinuations resulting from meeting predefined study stopping rules were similar in the two treatment groups and were typically for laboratory stopping rules (most commonly a 5-point increase in MELD score or a hemoglobin level <8 g/dL or level requiring transfusion; Supporting Table 1).
(AP) — A North Carolina laboratory has stopped doing research and is surrendering all of its animals a week after an undercover video showed what activists allege were workers cruelly treating dogs, cats and rabbits, federal regulators said Wednesday.
At one point, Richard Perle said that he wished Sagan would go back to his laboratory and stop "playing political scientist".
