Re: Blood work lately?..check this out

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Measure thryoid hormones, or measure TSH? I know nothing about the computer

programs used to analyze all these things. Wonder who all is using it?

Every single doc's office in the country of just some? Should we call our

local labs, or wherever we get our lab work done to verify that that's NOT

what they're using? This one is giving me a lot of stress, now!

FDA MedWatch - Class I recall of Tosoh Bioscience AIA-600 II Anal

yzers due to false positive and false negative results

> To: MEDWATCH@...

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> MedWatch - The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program

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> FDA and Tosoh Bioscience, Inc. notified healthcare professionals of a

Class 1 recall of the Tosoh Bioscience AIA-600 II Enzyme Immunoassay

Analyzer, software version 3.02. This laboratory analyzer is used by

laboratory professionals to measure thyroid hormones, cardiac markers

including troponin, tumor markers, as well as several other assays. This

analyzer, with software version 3.02, produced occurrence of false positive

and false negative results which could lead to aggravation of the patient's

clinical condition, delay in treatment and potentially death.