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New Insight into Protein Interactome May Spur Drug Development and Novel Clinical Laboratory Tests

Study may lead to repurposing existing drugs that are proven to be safe for the treatment of related diseases as the interactome becomes the subject of more research efforts Researchers from multiple scientific institutions working together have begun using the...

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Providers and Legislators Seek Changes in Rules Implementing No Surprises Act and How Physicians, Labs, and Other Providers Can Bill Patients

Provider groups and members of Congress say the rules favor payers, federal judge agrees, but path forward in how providers bill patients remains unclear Groups representing healthcare providers—including pathologists—are challenging the Biden administration’s...

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UCSB Researchers Discover Superior Culture Medium for Bacterial Testing, along with New Insights into Antimicrobial Resistance

Study may also result in new clinical laboratory tools for determining antimicrobial resistance and efficacy of existing antibiotics Researchers find it increasingly difficult to develop antibiotics that are effective against strains of bacteria that display...

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New Joint Commission Report Shows Number of Adverse Patient Safety Events Increasing

From some adverse events, clinical laboratory tests may be integrally tied to delays in treatment and faulty care management events that cause patient harm and deaths Adverse patient safety events are increasing according to The Joint Commission (TJC), a nonprofit...

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Global Biolabs 2023 Report Shows Most Dangerous Pathogen Testing Laboratories across the Globe

Of 27 BSL-4 labs assessed, Global Biolabs ranked only seven as having ‘good’ biosafety management In a new report, a research firm assessed the conditions at the handful of laboratories across the world that handle the most dangerous pathogens. In the wake of the...

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Southern California Physician and Clinical Laboratory Owners Charged in Federal Crackdown on Pandemic-Related Billing Fraud

Federal prosecutors build the new healthcare-related fraud cases on previous nationwide enforcement actions from 2022 Federal charges have once again been brought against a number of physicians and clinical laboratory owners in what the US Department of Justice...

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New $52 Million Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory to Be Constructed in Dallas County, Texas

Level 3 bio labs handle Ebola, smallpox and other deadly diseases, and may play a role in research into the human genome Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a concerted effort to improve public health laboratories and increase the growth of bioresearch....

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Private Healthcare on Rise as Britain’s Public Healthcare System Faces Horrific Conditions, Walkouts

Challenges abound as the NHS tries to recover before UK citizens move to private insurance; some patients have wait times of up to six months for a histopathology diagnosis of cancer Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is in dire straits. The UK’s vaunted...

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Innovators Develop Multi-Analyte Pulse Oximeters That Accurately Read Oxygen Levels in People with Darker Skin Pigmentation

Multiple studies have shown that people with darker skin pigmentation run a higher risk of being misdiagnosed and undertreated than patients with lighter skin due to inaccurate oxygen level readings Though pulse oximeters are not a standard clinical laboratory device,...

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City of Baltimore, University of Maryland Create Pilot Program to Train People to Work in Clinical Laboratories

Funded by the CDC, the program hopes to alleviate personnel shortages in Baltimore area clinical labs while also producing a knowledge base for lab managers nationwide Clinical laboratory managers struggling to fill vacant phlebotomy and accessioning positions will be...

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British Junior Doctors Stage Four-Day Walkout Demanding Increased Pay and Better Working Conditions

More than 10,000 doctors walked out for the second time in two months, further burdening an already overwhelmed NHS On April 11, tens of thousands of junior doctors (similar to medical residents in the US) left their posts in British hospitals commencing a four-day...

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Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Fights Prison Sentence While Claiming She Was ‘Not Being Authentic’ with Public Image

Founder of now defunct clinical laboratory testing company was supposed to report to prison April 27, but a last-minute legal challenge has delayed that judge’s order Anatomic pathologists and clinical laboratory leaders who are following the continuing saga of...

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Samsung Medical Center Combines 5G with Digital Pathology to Speed Anatomic Pathologist’s Readings of Frozen Sections, Cuts Test TAT in Half

HIMSS names SMC a ‘world leader’ in digital pathology and awards the South Korean Healthcare provider Stage 7 DIAM status   Anatomic pathologists and clinical laboratory managers in hospitals know that during surgery, time is of the essence. While the patient is still...

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COLA Clinical Laboratory Workforce Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, Engages Stakeholders in Effort to Train More Medical Laboratory Scientists

Representatives from almost 50 different clinical laboratories, professional associations, and societies came together this week to align efforts to expand the supply and retention of qualified laboratory scientists FORT WORTH, TEXAS—Last week, representatives from a...

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Number of Unfilled Medical Residencies Increases in Alberta and Other Areas of Canada

Family medicine academic departments in Canada are dealing with a shortage of applicants qualified for their residency programs, mirroring the shortage of pathologists For the past decade, the number of medical residencies in Alberta Canada that went unfilled have...

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Medical Residency ‘Match Day’ Yields Rare Mother and Son Placements with Mother Matched to Pathology Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

It was a special and unusual moment for this mother and son duo as they applied for acceptance into residency programs and were both matched on the same day Pathologists and other clinical laboratory scientists who underwent the matching process will be interested to...

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Implications of Academia’s Early Adoption of Whole Slide Scanning and Digital Pathology Systems

Understanding requirements of digital pathology workflow matters as regulatory and reimbursement elements align toward wider adoption beyond 2023. Upcoming Dark Daily webinar May 10 to cover infrastructure requirements Nearly all pathology residents and fellows, as...

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Bob McGonnagle, Publisher of CAP Today, Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award at 2023 Executive War College on Diagnostics, Clinical Laboratory, and Pathology Management

McGonnagle’s involvement with medical laboratory medicine spans five decades and 38 years of support for the nation’s anatomic pathologists and clinical laboratory professionals NEW ORLEANS—It was a standing ovation last week at the Executive War College on...

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Executive War College Headliners Connect Genetic Testing, Wearable Technology, Precision Medicine, and Struggle Over Claim Reimbursement between Clinical Labs and Payers

Keynote speakers advise clinical laboratory leaders to leverage diagnostic data that feeds precision therapies At this week’s Executive War College on Diagnostics, Clinical Laboratory, and Pathology Management in New Orleans, keynote presenters dissected ways that...

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Executive War College Keynote Speakers Highlight How Clinical Laboratories Can Capitalize on Multiple Growth Opportunities

From ‘new-school’ rules of running a clinical laboratory to pharmacy partnerships to leveraging lab data for diagnostics, key industry executives discussed the new era of clinical laboratory and pathology operations Opening keynotes at the 28th Annual Executive War...

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What Key Laboratory Leaders Will Learn at This Week’s 2023 Executive War College on Diagnostics, Clinical Laboratory, and Pathology Management

Executives and pathologists from many of the nation’s most prominent clinical laboratories are on their way to the Crescent City today to share best practices, hear case studies from innovative labs, and network NEW ORLEANS—This afternoon, more than 900 lab CEOs,...

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Efforts to Allow FDA Oversight of Clinical Laboratory-Developed Tests Continue in New Congress

The VALID Act has been refiled and the FDA has declared its intent to issue a proposed rule to enable it to oversee LDTs Should the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have the authority to regulate laboratory-developed tests (LDT)? Advocates in favor of this...

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Might Phlebotomy Become Fully Automated? Dutch Company Is Working to Develop World’s First Autonomous Blood-drawing Station

Should this AI-driven technology prove viable in clinical settings, it could contribute to easing the shortage of qualitied phlebotomists for medical laboratories worldwide Could phlebotomists one day be out of a job? If European medical technology company Vitestro...

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