A Closer Lab-Patient Connection
Patient access to data from the clinical lab is increasing. What does this mean for those generating it?
Diagnostic Testing and Emerging Technologies
Keeps You Up-to-Date on New Diagnostic Tests, Testing Trends and Opportunities, and Emerging Test Technologies
New and Improved: The Latest Research in Disease Screening
New ideas and innovations look beyond conventional screening options to facilitate improved disease diagnosis and patient outcomes
A Lasting Impact: COVID-19 and Cancer Screening
Several years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, labs are still dealing with the effects of missed and delayed screenings
Testing Recommendations Expand as Zika Season Approaches
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Could the AHCA Slow Interest in Genetic Testing?
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Genomic Testing May Be Currently Overhyped, Oncologists Say
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FDA Approves First-Ever, Pan-Cancer Drug in Milestone for Personalized Medicine
From - Diagnostic Testing & Emerging Technologies
In what is being heralded a major milestone for personalized medicine, in late May the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first…
Employment Law Update for HR Managers
By Mike O'Brien bio
This is my periodic update prepared for interested HR professionals trying to deal with the complex American employment laws…
Medical Necessity Requirement Bites Anatomic Pathologists
By Robert Mazer bio
The DOJ has announced two separate settlements involving claims for allegedly unnecessary special stains…
Signs Point to Expansion of Provider-Initiated Personal Genomic Testing
From - Diagnostic Testing & Emerging Technologies
Since 2013 when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) effectively stopped direct-to-consumer personal genomic testing, there has been pent up demand among healthy individuals for…
Phone-Based Genetic Counseling Supports Healthy Genome Sequencing
From - Diagnostic Testing & Emerging Technologies
Also at the ACMG meeting, researchers from Illumina (San Diego, Calif.) reported on a pilot project conducted at the San Diego Blood Bank where…
Getting a new lab space? Design it for safety now and save thousands later
By Dan Scungio, MT (ASCP), SLS, CQA (ASQ) bio
Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a laboratory manager who worked in a hospital that was designing a new stand-alone emergency department building which would include a…
5 ways to end generational stereotyping in your lab
By Dr. William A. Schiemann bio
These days, the Millennial Generation is hyped, perhaps even more than Baby Boomers were hyped in the 1950s and 1960s. As I meet with executives around the globe, there is widespread confusion and…