PITTSBURGH, Nov. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnyx, LLC, a joint venture of GE Healthcare and UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center), has joined with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) and a cross-sector coalition of industry, non-profits and professional societies in a global initiative to help provide patients in underserved areas of Sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti access to rapid cancer diagnostics and appropriate care and treatment. Cancer is a critical public health problem in Africa. Approximately 650,000 people in Africa develop cancer annually, and about 510,000 cancer deaths occur annually due to...
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