WHEN OSHA's revised Respiratory Protection Standard for General Industry, 29 CFR 1910.134, became effective on April 8, 1998, it provided employers with an all-inclusive reference source for fit ...

The FDA expanded the marketing indications of a line of diagnostic tests to include checks for Lyme disease—the first cleared by the agency to use a new parallel testing method. Developed by Zeus ...

The new 'assay'-based test showed that, overall, ICU patients produced the highest concentration of antibodies which can be categorised 'neutralizing'. (Reuters) Coronavirus update: Ohio State ...

Quantitative fit testing is the preferred testing method. The ambient aerosol condensation nuclei counting (CNC) method, using a Portacount® Plus instrument, has been selected as the quantitative fit ...

A total knee replacement (TKR) may sound like a pretty drastic operation, but in fact it is an increasingly routine process providing relief from pain, improved leg function and improved quality of ...

There is much recent interest in finding rare genetic variants associated with various diseases. Owing to the scarcity of rare mutations, single-variant analyses often lack power. To enable pooling of ...

Tarone (1990, Biometrics 46, 515-522) proposed a multiple test procedure for discrete test statistics improving the usual Bonferroni procedure. However, Tarone's procedure is not monotone depending on ...