New analyzers, connectivity, tests, and software features
June 2014—Cleared in April by the FDA is Nova’s newest—the Stat Profile Prime, which features Zero maintenance cartridges and MicroSensor technology. The Zero maintenance cartridge technology consists...
View ArticleData spark new directions in cervical cancer
June 2014—When Mark Stoler, MD, stood up to speak at the 30th annual Clinical Virology Symposium on April 29, his topic was timely. Dr. Stoler was presenting three-year followup data from the ATHENA...
View ArticleQ & A Column, 7/14
July 2014—Our laboratory is thinking of validating additional immunostains to aid in identifying metastatic melanoma. What are the best markers to identify metastatic melanoma? The post Q & A...
View ArticleNewsbytes, 7/14
July 2014—The benefits of building versus buying lab software: Like many in the field of pathology informatics, John Sinard, MD, PhD, does not believe that one-size-fits-all when it comes to laboratory...
View ArticlePut It on the Board, 7/14
July 2014—Ethics of laboratory billing at stake in AMA’s code: Proposed revisions to the American Medical Association’s Code of Medical Ethics would remove language that supports direct billing and...
View ArticleAnatomic Pathology Selected Abstracts, 7/14
July 2014—Assessing IHC biomarkers for basal-like breast cancer against a gene-expression profile gold standard: Gene-expression profiling of breast cancer delineates a particularly aggressive subtype...
View ArticleIn amyloidosis, timely diagnoses lag therapy gains
July 2014—G-G-G-E♭. Also known as da-da-da-DUM. Also known as the opening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. It’s a simple motif, heard repeatedly in the piece (not to mention across the centuries), yet no...
View ArticleClinical Pathology Selected Abstracts, 7/14
July 2014—Effects of fish oil in recent-onset rheumatoid arthritis: a patient study: The omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaneonic acid (DHA), which are found in fish oil,...
View ArticleFor safety and savings, lab takes on transfusions
July 2014—Hospitals are under fire to cut costs, and more often than not that means layoffs, forgoing new equipment, and watching from the sidelines as the medical literature touts advances that could...
View ArticleA POC blood glucose program turned upside down: How a 17-hospital system...
July 2014—When Rosemary Frederick learned last year that her employer, North Shore-LIJ Health System of New York state, would be switching from the Roche Accu-Chek Inform I point-of-care glucose meter...
View ArticleFrom the President’s Desk: Collaborating when and where it matters, 7/14
July 2014—I recently attended my first meeting as a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. I joined ASCO because I’ve been so impressed with the members I’ve met and the way they...
View ArticleUnwinding the mystery of Heartland virus disease
July 2014—Missouri is no country for old men. Clinical, laboratory, and epidemiologic investigations conducted during the past five years have identified a new virus that can cause considerable illness...
View ArticlePT referral rules bring regulatory relief for labs
July 2014—Laboratories now may be saved from draconian penalties, such as loss of a CLIA license and probation periods, for mistakenly sending proficiency test specimens to another facility. Under new...
View ArticleLab gets a jump on pay-for-value world
July 2014—Before the Affordable Care Act was passed, and before the notion of an ACO became a Medicare reality, Richard J. Cote, MD, was among those in medicine who saw the writing on the wall...
View ArticleSlashing send-out costs with lab formularies
July 2014—A glance at most hospital laboratory spreadsheet makes it clear: Where laboratories could reduce high-cost reference testing for inpatients and unreimbursed send-out testing for outpatients,...
View ArticleMolecular Pathology Selected Abstracts, 7/14
July 2014—Is there a role for molecular diagnostics in bladder cancer? Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men in the United States and is associated with high rates of cancer morbidity...
View ArticleAML molecular testing a map with many paths
July 2014—When it comes to molecular testing for acute myeloid leukemia, the approach seems more Montessori than military school. There are some basic steps physicians should take, to be sure....
View ArticleNew analyzers, assay applications, and tools, tests, and solutions to come
July 2014—In this year’s roundup of chemistry analyzers for mid- and high-volume laboratories, three appear in our guide for the first time. Randox received FDA clearance this year for the latest...
View ArticleCytopathology and More | Of confusion, cost, and communication
August 2014—In the days after my “Perspective” piece on the thousand-dollar Pap smear was published,1 I was profoundly moved by the number of physicians from diverse specialties and practice settings...
View ArticleClinical Pathology Selected Abstracts, 8/14
August 2014—Anti-D alloimmunization after D-incompatible platelet transfusions: Because a small but immunogenic dose of red blood cells may be contained in apheresis platelets, transfusion services...
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