Clinical Laboratories

This kind of news seems to come up with some regular frequency - "To screen or not to screen, that is the question". This Danish study recently reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that screening was not associated with a lower...

Introduction The practice of pathology is entering a period of broad adoption of digital workflows, as near real-time access to “digital slides” offers opportunities to greatly improve clinical outcomes and accelerate research. As Liron...

Last month a joint consensus statement developed by ASCO, the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), and the College of American Pathologists (CAP) on standardizing the interpretation and reporting of sequence variants in cancer was...

Last December I wrote a post called “Notice of Death”. I spoke about finding out about people who had passed on my Facebook stream. This week there were more notices of people younger than I who had passed from metastatic cancer. Their...

Fifth Annual Digital Pathology Transforming Medicine in a Digital Age February 20-22, 2017   |   Moscone North Convention Center   |   San Francisco, CA Part of the 24th Annual Molecular Medicine...

That is the question. Every year. Around the holidays or three-day weekends. Normally biopsies or surgical specimens collected the day before are reviewed the next day. In a majority of cases, the case can be “signed out” meaning your...