Current Affairs

Download PDF of Recommendations The Washington Post (9/7, McGinley) highlights a report released by a “blue-ribbon panel” of “top cancer researchers and patient advocates” as part of the White House’s cancer moonshot. The report...

Last Fall I wrote a couple of posts about the growing disenchantment with 'Pinkification' and 'Pinktober' referencing the all-out blitz during October to go "Pink" for breast bancer awareness and prevention.  In one of the pieces I mentioned...

Potential new technology here that may limit number of breast biopsies previously deemed "unnecessary" using artificial intelligence to aid screening with mammography with tumor protein expression. Perhaps as many as 20% of breast biopsies...

Published August 29, 2016 By Simon Häger, Product Manager Sectra Digital Pathology Solution Although most pathology departments have not yet made the transition to digital, many are actively evaluating the business case. Why? Most...

High throughput whole slide imaging for Digital Pathology via an affordable monthly subscription without a capital expense SUNNYVALE, CA -- OptraSCAN announces it has launched its 120-slide Whole Slide Imaging scanner as part of its On-Demand...

I love headlines such as these. First it was "Pigeons to Replace Pathologists in Diagnosing Benign from Malignant Tumors" now it is actual computer algorithms that get it right more times than and more so than ordinary surgical pathologists!...