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Incidents of lost or missing laboratory test samples carry heavy consequences. Yet, many laboratories find that accountability, reconciliation, and tracking persist as issues. This white paper will be useful for laboratory directors, lab managers, courier managers, logistics managers, and outreach managers—whether in hospital-based laboratories or independent medical laboratories working as outreach labs—who employ and manage couriers in-house.

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South Korean Researchers Develop Clinical Laboratory Test That Diagnoses Sepsis Faster than Traditional Tests

Diagnostic test incorporates artificial intelligence and could shorten the time clinical laboratories need to determine patients’ risk for antimicrobial resistance Sepsis continues to be a major killer in hospitals worldwide. Defeating it requires early diagnosis,...

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Mayo Clinic Researchers Uses Exome Sequencing to Identify Individuals at Risk of Hereditary Cancer

Half of the people tested were unaware of their genetic risk for contracting the disease Existing clinical laboratory genetic screening guidelines may be inadequate when it comes to finding people at risk of hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndromes and Lynch...

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World Economic Forum Publishes Updated List of 12 Breakthroughs in Fight against Cancer That Includes Innovative Clinical Laboratory Test (Part 2)

These advances in the battle against cancer could lead to new clinical laboratory screening tests and other diagnostics for early detection of the disease As Dark Daily reported in part one of this story, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has identified 12 new...

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World Economic Forum Publishes Updated List of 12 Breakthroughs in Fight against Cancer That Includes Innovative Clinical Laboratory Test (Part 1)

List also includes precision oncology, liquid biopsies, and early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer Pathologists and clinical laboratory managers will be interested to learn that in a recently updated article the World Economic Forum (WEF) identified a dozen important...

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University of Edinburgh Scientists Associate Increased Cancer Rates to Descendants from Multiple Scottish Islands

Findings could lead to new clinical laboratory cancer screening tests for BRCA1 and BRCA2 among specific population regions Descendants of a remote Scottish island are much more likely to carry a cancer-causing BRCA2 gene than the rest of the UK. That’s according to a...

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Pathology Laboratory Cuts Lead to Worker Walkout in Australia

Underfunding of clinical laboratories has led to similar worker walkouts in multiple Australasian nations Once again, cuts in government spending on pathology services has forced healthcare workers to walk off the job in Australia. This is in line with other pathology...

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Mayo Clinic Scientists Develop AI Tool That Can Determine If Gut Microbiome is Healthy

Although it is a non-specific procedure that does not identify specific health conditions, it could lead to new biomarkers that clinical laboratories could use for predictive healthcare Researchers from the Mayo Clinic recently used artificial intelligence (AI) to...

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100-Biomarker Lab Test for Alzheimer’s Disease Developed by Team at University of Pittsburgh

New clinical laboratory test could replace conventional spinal tap for diagnosing neurodegenerative disease In a proof-of-concept study, University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) scientists validated a clinical laboratory test that measures more than 100 different genetic...

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University of Colorado Boulder Scientists Demonstrate Acoustic-based Diagnostic System

Small handheld device uses sound waves to detect certain clinical laboratory biomarkers in blood samples University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed a novel technology that uses sound waves to test for biomarkers in blood samples. In addition to being...

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