Interesting article in the New York Times about Henrietta Lacks and implications for "tissue rights" almost 60 years later. "Fifty years after Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in the “colored” ward at Johns...

Here are a few examples of ways image analysis can be used which have practical applications in clinical use.  Check out Flagship Biociences LLC: Quantitation in toxicologic pathology: liver fibrosis scoring "Industry has accepted...

Yesterday Olympus announced a new improved version of its highly successful dotSlide virtual slide system. The new VS110 combines microscopy seamlessly with imaging to create a virtual slide that is an exact copy of the real specimen....

Meeting Annoucement If you use telecommunications solutions for healthcare, the ATA Annual Meeting is the single-most important event of the year, keeping you up to date with the latest developments in your field. The 15th Annual...

Picked this up from Twitter -- Many thanks to Liron Pantanowitz for the Pathology Informatics Wiki at http://pathinformatics.wikispaces.com/ From the site: The goals of the Pathology Informatics Curriculum Wiki are four-fold: To...

American filmmaker Dan Woolley was making a documentary in Port au Prince when the earthquake hit.  Trapped for 60 hours in a collapsed building, he used a first aid application on his iPhone to deal with excessive bleeding and a...