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The Director, ISN Products Nigeria Limited, Mr Felix Ofungwu, has advocated recognition and reward for outstanding medical laboratory scientists.

Ofungwu, the flag-off ceremony of 2021 ISN Medical Laboratory Scientist of the Year Award, said the role of medical laboratory scientists in quality health care delivery could not be underestimated.

He said, “The  ISN Medical Laboratory Scientist of the Year Award is our way of recognising the significant role medical laboratory scientists play in the delivery of quality health care through accurate testing, which is critical to proper diagnosis and treatment of patients.

“For years, quality-driven medical laboratory scientists have served as the unsung heroes, carrying out their duties thanklessly and silently. ISN is trying to ensure that these heroes get the recognition they deserve.”

According to him, entries for the 2021 ISN Medical Laboratory Scientist of the Year Award are now open.

Ofungwu stated that an applicant was required to

WICHITA, Kan., July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The proposed Kansas Health Science Center – Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine (KHSC-KansasCOM), currently under construction in downtown Wichita, recently named James Joseph, Jr., M.D., as assistant professor of surgery and Adam Dean as its director of admissions.

Dr. Joseph is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who serves as president of Kansas Joint and Spine Specialists and, until recently, was chief of orthopedic surgery at Kansas Medical Center—both based in Wichita. In addition to his work as a surgeon, Dr. Joseph spent four years as a team physician for Wichita State University’s men’s basketball program and was an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He has been published numerous times in scholarly journals, spearheaded an effort to streamline the care of orthopedic patients and served as a diplomate of the National Board of

WASHINGTON — Eric Lander, the renowned genomics researcher, has kept a low profile in his first months as President Biden’s science adviser. He’s given no speeches, issued no reports, and published virtually no public-facing work of any kind.

Quietly, though, Lander has been busy reinventing the White House’s science office. He’s building a new wing, exclusively focused on health and life sciences — a dramatic change for OSTP, which even under President Obama counted just two staffers with the word “health” in their titles. Neither worked in life sciences.

U.S. regulators took action Wednesday that will make it easier to get a cheaper, near-copy of a brand-name insulin at the drugstore.

Doctors now have to specifically prescribe what’s called a biosimilar or OK substituting it for a more expensive brand-name insulin.

Wednesday’s move by the Food and Drug Administration will allow pharmacists to automatically substitute the cheaper version, just as they do with generic pills for other kinds of drugs.

It’s the FDA’s first approval of an “interchangeable” biosimilar, a near-copy of an injected biologic medicine that’s manufactured inside living cells. It could save diabetics and health plans millions of dollars annually and encourage other drugmakers to create more biosimilar medicines. Health data firm IQVIA projects U.S. savings from increasing use of biosimilars from 2020 through 2024 will top $100 billion.

The FDA agreed that Viatris Inc.’s Semglee was interchangeable with widely used Lantus, a fast-acting insulin.

Approval of

BERLIN (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization acknowledged it was premature to rule out a potential link between the COVID-19 pandemic and a laboratory leak, and he said Thursday he is asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus.

In a rare departure from his usual deference to powerful member countries, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said getting access to raw data had been a challenge for the international team that traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the source of COVID-19. The first human cases were identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Tedros told reporters that the U.N. health agency based in Geneva is “asking actually China to be transparent, open and cooperate, especially on the information, raw data that we asked for at the early days of the pandemic.”

He said there had been a “premature