Lab Best Practice
Reference Intervals: The Process to Verify Outside Sources
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HHS stipulate that a written procedure manual be available, and followed, by all laboratory personal. One key aspect of these standardized procedure manuals are test ....
Read MoreVitamin D: Its Physiology, Testing and Relationship with COVID-19
The discovery and importance of vitamin D was first revealed in 1919 when Sir Edward Mellanby successfully reproduced a nutritional disease known as rickets by feeding dogs oatmeal and keeping these dogs from...
Read MoreOur Experience with Touch Preparations of Lung Core Needle Biopsies
The touch preparation (TP) technique is a tissue preparation method in which a fresh tissue will exfoliate cells on a glass slide after touching that slide. It is usually performed on core needle biopsies (CNB) ....
Read MoreAntimicrobial Stewardship Program in Patient Care: A Closer Look at Wound Infections
Health care providers around the world face the growing challenge of rising rates of resistance of bacterial pathogens to antibiotics. This is particularly pronounced in the management of wound infections ....
Read MoreIntroduction to Molecular Pathways & Routine DNA MMR Deficiency Testing in Colorectal Adenocarcinoma
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of cancer death in both men and women in the United States [1]. The vast majority of colorectal cancers are adenocarcinomas, which are malignancies arising from the
Read MoreDebunking Common Misconceptions of COVID-19 Related Testing and Transfusion Practices
The 2019 novel coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in a constant and massive surge of information. Over 100,000 scientific articles related to COVID-19 were published in 2020 alone.
Read MoreFlow Cytometric Immunophenotypic Analysis of Hematolymphoid Neoplasms
Flow cytometry (FCM) by immunophenotypic analysis has a prominent role in the diagnosis and classification of hematolymphoid neoplasms, and in monitoring response to therapy. There have been tremendous advances for
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