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Came across this post from NY Times Health blog this week. Couple of thoughts: Biopsies required to fix for certain time should need for certain IHC (i.e. HER2) required. Formal guidelines coming on ER/PR as well just as we...
TOP STORIES CAP Electronic Cancer ChecklistsNow Available in XML FormatThe College of American Pathologists electronic Cancer Checklists are now even easier to use! The checklists, which assist pathologists in reporting over 60 common and...
Medicare frauds are nothing new and I can't say I am too surprised about this one featured on "American Greed" on CNBC. A Mohs surgeon in Sarasota, FL milked millions out of Medicare for thousands of "skin cancer"...
Dr. Lucien E. Nochomovitz, Vice-Chairman of the Department of Pathology from North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health Care System (Manhasset campus) has an interesting monolgoue about his experiences in academic surgical pathology at...
Galveston Medical Technology Students Need Your Used Books Nearly 50% of the medical technology students at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) lost most of their belongings in their rooms on Galveston Island when...
In 2006 the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) appointed a "New Profession for Cytotechnologists Task Force" to address ASC members’ concerns regarding emerging trends that threaten to reduce Pap test volumes. The ASC hired...
