General Healthcare News

As part of President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), the National Institutes of Health will award $142 million over five years to the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, to establish the world’s largest research-cohort biobank...

Recently heard Dr. Paul van Diest speak about their experience with digital pathology in a respectable-size department with 30,000 surgical pathology cases. In his talk he claimed "Just Do It" with regards to digital pathology implementation in...

Fri, May 20, 2016 10:00 AM AM EDT/7:00 AM PDT Show in My Time Zone REGISTER HERE Professor Peter Hamilton is joined LIVE by Dr Keith Kaplan at PathXL's HQ in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Join this webinar where they discuss the...

This is interesting news from Clearpath Derm, a company founded by a well-known high volume dermatopathology laboratory, Dermpath Lab of Central States (DLCS) to provide its clients with remote access to their images. In a nutshell Clearpath...

LINKÖPING, SWEDEN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sectra AB (STO:SECTB) -- Kuopio University Hospital will be Finland’s first fully digital pathology department following its investment in Sectra’s IT solution for efficient storage, review and...

I think that liquid biopsy, that is, using urine or peripheral blood samples will revolutionize cancer care and pathology over time.  Right now testing may be more limited with limited clinical trials but over time I think liquid biopsy will...