IVD Packaging

PMP News's sister publication IVD Technology will be hosting a paid Webcast on companion diagnostics on Thursday, November 10. According to Richard Park, editor of IVD Technology, companion diagnostics for personalized medicine is the most important emerging trend in the IVD industry today.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as well as the Alabama Department of Public Health are investigating the outbreak of Serratia marcescens bacteremia in several Alabama hospitals. On March 16, the Alabama Department of Public Health was notified that an outbreak had occurred in two of these hospitals among patients receiving (total parenteral nutrition) TPN. TPN is liquid nutrition fed through an IV using a catheter. Use of contaminated products may lead to bacterial infection of the blood.