We have developed a virtual colonoscopy system aiming toward mass screening for polyps through the entire colon. This work reviews the key technical components of the system.

BACKGROUND Historically the success of mass spectrometry in the clinical laboratory has focused on drugs of abuse confirmations, newborn screening, and steroid analysis. Clinical applications of mass spectrometry continue to expand, and mass spectrometry is now being used in almost all areas of laboratory medicine. CONTENT A brief background of the evolution of mass spectrometry in the clinic...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization is currently developing guidelines on screening for tuberculosis disease to inform national screening strategies. This process is complicated by significant gaps in knowledge regarding mass screening. This study aimed to assess feasibility, uptake, yield, treatment outcomes, and costs of adding an active tuberculosis case-finding program to an existing m...

The year 2013 marks 50 years of both newborn screening and the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. India has seen a lot of change in terms of motivation, evolution and implementation of newborn screening as pilot projects for few disorders. Facilities for implementing screening using tandem mass spectrometry or what is termed as expanded newborn screening have also become available. We attempt to dis...

INTRODUCTION This paper describes the development, current position and projected development of mass newborn screening in Singapore. METHODS A search was conducted through the Medline and through the abstract books of conferences for papers on mass newborn screening in Singapore. This was complemented with the author's own records of the outcome of screening newborns at the National Universi...

We present the results of a study of the free energy of a monopole pair in pure SU(2) theory at finite temperature , both below and above the deconfinement transition. We find a Yukawa potential between monopoles in both phases. At low temperature, the screening mass is compatible with the lightest glueball mass. At high temperature, we observe an increased screening mass with no apparent disco...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the number of persons with and without disabilities who participated in the National Health Insurance (NHI) chronic disease mass screening programs in South Korea. METHODS The data were obtained from mass screening claims submitted to the NHI and National Disability Registry. Factors affecting the participation rate included demographic va...

In the 1970's, the government began to take steps for the treatment of congenital diseases. Mass newborn screening was started in October 1977 throughout Japan in order to detect five inborn errors of metabolism including phenylketonuria, maple syrup urine disease, homocystinuria, histidinemia, and galactosemia. In 1979, mass screening for congenital hypothyroidism was added to the original pro...