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CMA Reports (1635 words) |
 | CMA on Tuesday released a report that calls on the Legislature and the Governor to act deliberately and fairly in their approach Workers Compensation reform. |
 | CMA in its report says that any update of the workers comp system must provide improved data integrity, increased accountability in expenditure reporting, equity for providers, and comprehensive occupational medicine programs. |
 | CMA's 9th annual report on Knox-Keene health plans highlights a further monopolization of the health care market, with the closing of five for-profit health plans in California in the period covered by report. |
| Baylor CMA - Baylor College of Medicine - Houston, Texas (270 words) |
 | CMA uses a DNA chip and comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) to test for increased or decreased dosage of more than 60 chromosomal regions of known significance. |
 | Although CMA will detect disorders such as trisomies, isodicentric 15 (also known as inverted duplication 15), 47XYY, 47XXY, and 47XXX, it is currently recommended that a routine Giemsa banded karyotype be performed prior to or simultaneous with ordering the CMA test. |
 | CMA will provide a major advance in the testing of patients in which a genetic cause of disability is suspected. |