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	Wasserman Test \| World of Microbiology and Immunology
		The Wasserman test is used to diagnose the illness known as syphilis.
		The Wasserman test is used to detect the presence of the bacterium that causes syphilis, the spirochete (spiral-shaped microorganism) Treponema pallidum.
		Specifically, the test determines the presence or absence of an antibody that is produced in response to the presence of a constituent of the membrane of Treponema pallidum.
	www.bookrags.com /sciences/biology/wasserman-test-wmi.html (345 words)

	Medical test Summary
		The Pap test was one of the first screening tests (tests that are performed in the absence of known disease and negative results are the norm) widely used in medicine.
		This means that the health care professional must describe the test or procedure that he or she is suggesting the patient undergo, explain the risks posed by the test itself, outline what information the test will yield, and what benefits are expected from the test results.
		Following the tests, patients (and the parents or guardians of minor children) are entitled to receive a clear, comprehensible explanation of the test results.
	www.bookrags.com /Medical_test (2599 words)

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		He's put that ability to the test in a variety of contexts over the years, most notably on a series of three albums -- SOLO, DUETS, and TRIOS -- that demonstrate his unparalleled knack for making his voice heard without shouting, for allowing the collaborative process to flower to its fullest.
		Wasserman has consistently proven he isn't shy about stretching the limits of his chosen instrument.
		Wasserman has balanced such rather high-toned pursuits with projects like Ratdog, the band he and longtime partner Bob Weir assembled after touring as a successful duo for ten years.
	www.robwasserman.com /bio.html (841 words)

	2001_03 \| A Comparison of Diabetes Patients' Self-Reported Health Status With Hemoglobin A1c Test Results In 11 ...
		The overall test rate was 49.2 percent, ranging from a low of 38.5 percent for Plan D to a high of 58.1 percent for Plan G. None of the plans' test rates were statistically different from the overall mean rate of 49.2 at the 0.05 level.
		test probably came back before the survey was completed, and poor results from that test may have prompted many test takers to report their disease as poorly controlled.
		test in the prior year perceived themselves to be in better health and control than did patients who had received at least one test.
	www.managedcaremag.com /archives/0103/0103.peer_wasserman.html (4187 words)

	Psychiatric Diagnosis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Testing not only informs diagnosis, but is also used in the evaluation of treatment; in fact, testing is used more frequently to monitor the progress of treatment than it is to establish a diagnosis in the first place (Zaret, 1997).
		The present proposal is, essentially, to reverse the process: to test for differential psychological deficits, in the same way that clinical pathologists now test blood for the presence of antigens and antibodies or image the body to detect lesions in various tissues and organs, and create a new nosology based on psychopathological findings.
		Application of rigorous, laboratory-based diagnostic tests may tell us whether we are really experiencing an epidemic of autism (in California the number of children enrolled in autism programs more than doubled from 1987 to 1998), or whether large numbers of children are being misdiagnosed based on the subjective assessment of symptoms and signs.
	www.institute-shot.com /Psychiatric%20Diagnosis.htm (7479 words)

	Welcome to The Public Health Museum Homepage
		Hinton is responsible for the Hinton test for syphilis, which was found to be as effective and, in some respects, superior to the Wasserman test.
		Hinton was responsible for the discovery of the Davies-Hinton test of blood and spinal fluid.
		The test, named after Hinton, was used by the Public Health Service in the United States as the best for determining the presence of syphilis, being extensively used in World War II by the Army.
	www.publichealthmuseum.org /more-exhibits-williamHinton.html (485 words)

	JacqT
		Wasserman noticed that one of the best readers in her class, Jimmy, appeared to be struggling with the vocabulary section.
		She received a higher test score without having a clue as to what the appropriate answers were (Wasserman 2).
		However, since these tests have repeatedly been proven to be an inefficient tool for measuring the academic progress of culturally and linguistically diverse students, they are not the appropriate means to determine funding for their schools.
	muweb.millersville.edu /~comp/Gardner/JacqT.html (1426 words)

	Story - Shooting from the lip
		As often happens, Wasserman lost this battle, as Hood championed the ban that effectively killed the late-night dance scene at downtown bars, primarily affecting The Club, whose owner argued that if raves were not allowed in a regulated setting, they would go underground and take the dangers of illicit drug use with them.
		For almost a decade, Wasserman has been defying authority in representing a string of clients whose best defense is to wrap themselves in the U.S. Constitution.
		All we had was our brains." Attorney Rick Fletcher, Wasserman’s sparring partner at the time, portrays him now as a friend and "crusader of a certain perspective." But he questions how Wasserman can continue to represent clients who, says Fletcher, profit from "the commercial exploitation of women.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /util/printready.asp?id=63 (1752 words)

	Hillsborough: Test to look at drug for peanut allergy
		USF and Tampa General are among those working to test Xolair's effectiveness on a potentially deadly allergy.
		USF/Tampa General is one of 20 sites in the country testing whether Xolair, a drug approved last year to treat asthma, also helps peanut allergy.
		Then they will be treated for several months, either with Xolair or a dummy pill, then tested again to see whether their symptoms have changed.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/05/19/Hillsborough/Test_to_look_at_drug_.shtml (691 words)

	Publicity4u.com - Dick Delson and Associates
		Wasserman grew up in Cleveland, where he graduated from high school, and in 1936 went to work for the Music Corp. of America.
		Wasserman had also bought Paramount's pre-1948 film library for $50 million, giving MCA a reservoir of nearly 750 films to rent to television stations.
		Wasserman figured he could fill a lot of the idle time by selling the networks on the idea of one-shot movie features made specifically for television.
	publicity4u.com /mcawithjaws.shtml (5008 words)

	The Wasserman Gait Laboratory - Cerebral Palsy - Stroke - Walking Disorders
		For this reason, the Wasserman Gait Laboratory uses sophisticated computer technology to run reports that monitor skeletal alignment, muscle function, and forces acting on the body during walking.
		Testing takes between 2 and 3 hours to complete.
		Assessment of gait by this sophisticated technique is relatively new, and not all insurance plans cover the expense of this test.
	www.wassermangaitlab.com (284 words)

	Orlando Weekly
		It sparked Wasserman to alter his plans yet again.His politics are not easily defined.
		Using that as a springboard, Wasserman next worked as a political consultant for the national adult video association, convincing it to repackage itself as the Free Speech Coalition.Married and raising a stepdaughter, Wasserman insists he has no personal interest in what his clients are selling.
		Everyone knew David Wasserman was here," says attorney Larry Walters, who has worked with Wasserman since the early days of the Friends of the First Amendment.Yet in recognition of the need to temper his exuberance, Wasserman enrolled in yoga and tai chi.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /features/story.asp?id=63 (1455 words)

	WowEssays.com - Ebonics
		Oakland's concern is based on the outcome of the standardized test of reading and language skills among many African American students, according to the Amended Resolution of the Board of Education (1997), the scores on the standardized test were below state and national levels.
		According to Wasserman (1997), ebonics is not considered a language nor is it seen as a nonstandard of English.
		Wasserman (1997) stated that ebonics is a language pattern rather than a language based on grammar, punctuation and word, therefore, it should not be seen as an actual language.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/af4/lvw97.shtml (2792 words)

	History of medical screening: from concepts to action -- Morabia and Zhang 80 (946): 463 -- Postgraduate Medical Journal
		The dashed circle of the criterion-exclusive test separates three groups: true positive (the core dotted area), false negatives (the dotted area outside of the core) and true negatives (all the white areas).
		The arrow indicates the cut point of the NSA test; the solid line represents the distribution of psychosomatic complaints scores among the normals while the dash line depicts the distribution among the psychoneurotics.
		The sensitivity and the specificity of the tests are 64.3% and 96.9% respectively.
	pmj.bmj.com /cgi/content/full/80/946/463 (5164 words)

	OSCN Found Document:GRIFFIN GROCERY CO. v. STATE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
		The cause and extent of the disability is not presented in the brief or argued and is therefore not an issue in this proceeding.
		When petitioner attempted to obtain the result of that blood test an objection was sustained on the ground of privileged communication.
		The blood test was made by the doctor approximately twenty-two months before claimant began work for petitioner and was made for claimant as a private patient.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeID=25531 (718 words)

	Parents, Partners, and Personal Jurisdiction: Part I
		The Supreme Court's continued reliance on the minimum contacts test overprotects the defendant by providing her with a jurisdictional defense whenever she is sued in a forum with which she lacks minimum contacts even if she would suffer no meaningful inconvenience if required to defend there.
		See generally Wasserman, supra note 33, at 61-62 and n.116 (stating that "a decision upholding personal jurisdiction invariably will expose the defendant to the forum's substantive law, which may be 'unfavorable"').
		Although the UCCJA permits parties to depose witnesses in other states and authorizes the court to ask another state's court to hold a hearing to adduce evidence or otherwise to help gather relevant information and to forward it to the forum, there is no substitute for live testimony.
	www.law.pitt.edu /wasserman/law2b.htm (1929 words)

	syph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		2 Key tests used in identification include FTA-abs (serological test), RPR (serological test), VDRL (serological test), Wasserman (a non-specific serological test), TPI (a serological test).
		New tests are also in the works that would prevent the requirement of a blood sample for diagnosis.
		These tests are attempting to use saliva and urine samples as a means for testing potential carriers.
	www.austincc.edu /microbio/2704k/syph.htm (490 words)

	The Chronicle: Colloquy Live Transcript
		It seems that at some point the attenuation between the test and the disease becomes too great to justify screening for it, and makes it more unlikely their will be community support for it.
		The Wasserman test for syphillis identified (if I recall correctly)whether or not an individual had antibodies to the bacterium that causes syphillis.
		The thalassemia tests are of two kinds; the first identifies carriers of the gene (the parents); the second identifies whether any particular fetus is a homozygote.
	chronicle.com /colloquylive/2003/04/eugenics (3281 words)

	OSCN Found Document:ATLAS LIFE INS. CO. v. CHASTAIN
		Thomas L. Wilson was called for the plaintiff to determine the question as to whether the insured while in the Veterans' Hospital at Muskogee, Okla., was being treated for the disease of syphilis.
		was permitted to answer that when a Wasserman test is given and a positive result is obtained, it may indicate that there are diseases other than syphilis present in the person examined.
		The doctor testified that he knew that the Wasserman test indicated the presence of disease other than syphilis.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeID=2325 (1069 words)

	Syphilis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 1930s the Hinton test, developed by William Augustus Hinton, and based on flocculation, was shown to have fewer false positive reactions than the Wasserman test.
		Tests based on monoclonal antibodies and immunofluorescence, including Treponema pallidum haemagglutination assay (TPHA) and Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody Absorption (FTA-ABS), are more specific, but are still unable to rule out related treponomal infections such as yaws and pinta.
		Skin testing or desensitization to facilitate therapy with penicillin is recommended in pregnant patients and for treatment of latent syphilis and neurosyphilis in other patients with HIV infection.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syphilis_test (3935 words)

	JS Online: UW test rule faces review
		The test would be given first to members of the Class of 2004.
		Wasserman urged the regents to reverse the policy before the Legislature considers action.
		Olsen said the state needed to see that students treated the test as important and put their best efforts into it, although he was not sure how to accomplish this.
	www.jsonline.com /news/metro/feb01/grad20021901a.asp (928 words)

	Treatment of Gonorrhoea in 1915 \| The Great War \| Medical Front WWI
		Surprisingly, although the Wasserman test for syphilis was available, soldiers with gonorrhoea were not routinely tested for a concomitant syphilitic infection.
		If the two-glass test is used, owing to the pus mixing with the urine in the bladder both iportions will be thick.
		The two-glass test is not of much use in chronic cases, because, in whichever part of the urethra the lesion is situated, the threads brushed away there from will only appear in the first glass.
	www.vlib.us /medical/gc.htm (2503 words)

	[P&S Medical Review:Apr:95] H. Houston Merritt and Neurosyphilis, Then and Now
		Merritt relied heavily on the CSF Wassermann test, which was regarded as highly specific because false positive reactions were restricted to people with leprosy, frambesia and trypanosomiasis, none of which were commonly encountered in Boston.
		These tests are direct descendants of the Wassermann and Kolmer tests, made more sensitive by purifying the components of the nonspecific antigen (cardiolipin-lecithin-cholesterol).
		This rabbit infectivity test (RIT) was available then but it was mentione d only in passing in his monograph, probably because it was cumbersome, time-consuming and expensive, factors that precluded its general application to populations.
	cpmcnet.columbia.edu /news/review/archives/medrev_v2n2_0006.html (5976 words)

	TEST - Letter G (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Tests of independence and randomness based on the empirical copula process.
		A note on an assertion by E. Gutiérrez-Peña and A. Smith (Test, 1997, pp.87).
		Testing the hypothesis of a general linear model using nonparametric regression estimation.
	www.seio.es /test/LetterG.html (687 words)

	Fear, Loathing And The GMAT - Pete Geary
		This is one of those tests that can make or break a career.
		Unfortunately, the Math section of the test seemed to contain a large number of geometry questions, a subject I have heard rumors about, but have never actually seen, much less studied.
		Hence my concern that the GMAT, a computer adaptive test, will immediately spot my ignorance of geometry, and in that good natured, devil may care attitude that computer adaptive tests have, assign me one geometry question after another for several hours, all the while chuckling to itself.
	www.molyworld.net /laughterloaf/arch/gmat.htm (814 words)

	Adoption History: Sophie van Senden Theis and Constance Goodrich, The Child in the Foster Home, 1921
		For adoption reformers, careful investigations—including mental tests, physical measurements, and complete personal and health histories—were essential to reducing the many risks of child placement and establishing minimum standards in adoption.
		Scientific research may seem a remote affair to the harassed case worker, but her records may some day contribute invaluable material to the scientific student, and it is to research that we owe many of the methods which we daily use—the intelligence test, the Wassermann test, and the complete physical examination.
		A thorough examination of his present condition will usually include a Wasserman test, and in the case of girls smears are made, whenever possible, for determination of possible venereal infection.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~adoption/archive/TheisTCITFH.htm (713 words)

	Changing the Face of Medicine \| Dr. Ruth Marguerite Easterling
		She also served on the staff of the Tuskegee Veterans Administration Hospital in Alabama, and was director of laboratories at the Cambridge Massachusetts City Hospital.
		She was affiliated with the Harvard laboratories and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and worked with Dr. William Augustus Hinton, the son of freed slaves, who in 1927 perfected the Hinton test for syphilis.
		The Hinton test replaced the Wasserman test as the most accurate blood serum test for syphilis.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_94.html (540 words)

	COMMENTARY / Wasserman test for L.A. Times Book Review?
		My unseemly inability now to call him simply "Wasserman," as journalistic protocol would dictate, seems especially ironic considering that when he fetched up at the Times in 1996, I probably called him a lot worse.
		Meantime, for nine years now I've been in rooms where Steve Wasserman was reviled and celebrated, and I've held my tongue too much in both and let folks think I agreed.
		In retrospect, Steve was neither the carpetbagger from New York his detractors made him out to be, nor the savior from the East that too many of his defenders claimed.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/13/DDG0ICNJJU1.DTL&type=printable (1138 words)

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