Standards and Guidelines

The US Food and Drug Administration recently approved the use of a human papillomavirus (HPV) test as a primary cervical cancer screening test in women as young as 25 years, yet physicians are unlikely to ditch the Papanicolaou (Pap) test soon,...

The deadline for submitting comments is June 12, 2014 Clinical Guidelines for Telepathology is an update to the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) original guideline published in 1999. The guidelines provide guidance on specific...

BUFFALO GROVE, IL, May 14, 2014 – Leica Biosystems, a global leader in IHC workflow and automation, today announced a key milestone for its two new mobile apps: PathLead and IHC Antibody Catalog. The apps have been downloaded over 1,000 times...

Join Visiopharm for our webinar, “HER2 Protein Expression in Breast Cancer: Membrane Morphology and Accuracy with Regard to Gene Amplification” presented by Michael Grunkin, PhD the CEO and co-founder of Visiopharm. Date:     Monday,...

Since the time I was a medical student, we were taught that for many of us, particularly those interested in pathology and laboratory medicine, that our jobs would be replaced by small computer chips and software applications that could...

On February 6, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final amendment to both CLIA 1988 and HIPAA 1996 rules in order to allow patients direct access to their lab results. In CLIA Final Rule 42 CFR 493.1291,...