Updated December 12, 2011

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December 2011

Cover Story

• Bumpy landing for precision medicine

Feature Stories

• Pathologist at helm of anemia program
• SLN dissection for melanoma—two views
• Following the money—Medicare payment in 2012
• New challenges take labs beyond proficiency testing
• Pain service—nuts and bolts of lab support
• Talk to a pathologist? Plenty of patients line up

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• Put it On The Board
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
        Interested in submitting a question?
• Newsbytes
• Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
       Hematology analyzers (PDF, 275 KB)

November 2011

Cover Story

• Lung cancer test, drug offer ‘fantastic’ hope

Feature Stories

• Better kidney markers ahead?
• Next-gen shifts DNA sequencing into hyperdrive
• Attacking the gap in emergency department TATs
• LIS consultants: from what they know to what labs need
• EHR rules, interfaces—2 cases call up everyday issues
• Huddles, checklists, and Dale Carnegie: promoting a culture of patient safety

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• Put it On The Board
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
        Interested in submitting a question?
• Newsbytes
• Information systems product guide:
       Laboratory information systems (PDF, 438 KB)
  
• Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
       Next-generation sequencing instruments (PDF, 300 KB)

October 2011

Cover Story

• RBC storage duration: Is older riskier?

Feature Stories

• In IHC, best to aim for ‘middle’
• Sanger sequencing here for the long haul
• Dropping downtime for immediate FNA evaluations
• Unified HPV terminology—open for comments soon
• Biovigilance network advancing slowly—but it’s progress
• Tracking troponin TAT, completeness of cancer reports
• Antibiotic program supersizes impact of molecular testing
• For years of service, 24 win awards
• CAP annual stated meeting minutes

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• Put it On The Board
• Shorts on Standards
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
        Interested in submitting a question?
• Newsbytes
• Information systems product guide:
  Annual lineup of blood bank systems
       Blood bank information systems (PDF, 285 KB)
  
• Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
  From basics to big picture: chemistry analyzers for low-volume labs
       Chemistry analyzers (for low-volume laboratories) (PDF, 324 KB)

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September 2011

Cover Story

• Untangling the knot of mitochondrial disease

Feature Stories

• Decades on, IHC keeps making its mark
• AP labs seek to sync with growing IT menu
• Directing a lab: sink, swim—or look to CAP course
• Eyes on the prize improves AP specimen processing
• HPV-related neoplasia of lower anogenital tract
• Full automation as solution—U of Iowa’s story
       Billable test volume, hours worked, billable tests per one hour worked
• Checklists now slimmer, simpler, ROAD-mapped
• How to prepare for an interview, size up an offer

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• Put it On The Board
• Letters
• Shorts on Standards
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
        Interested in submitting a question?
• Newsbytes
• Information systems product guide:
  Lab automation—total tube management and more
       Laboratory automation systems and workcells (PDF, 260 KB)

August 2011

Cover Story

• MicroRNA—is the contender a champ?

Feature Stories

• No shortage of subtleties in CLL diagnoses
• ER, ICU testing: limits, logistics, and laurels
• New book makes it your business to run a lab
• Commonsense guidance on AP ‘critical’diagnoses
        The statement in brief
• In CP training, are we teaching consultation?

Cytopathology Programs Review

• Ultrasound in the FNA clinic—how to get started
• Anal cancer screening
• Your Pap and nongyn program suggestions
• In mandated cytology PT, fatal flaws remain
• Wanted: nongynecologic slides from participating labs

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• Put it On The Board
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
        Interested in submitting a question?
• Newsbytes
• Information systems product guide:
  New tests, connectivity options for blood gas analyzers
       In vitro blood gas analyzers (PDF, 272 KB)
  
• Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
  Automated platforms lowering the molecular barriers
       Automated molecular platforms (PDF, 223 KB)

July 2011

Cover Story

• Seeking better fits in transplant services

Feature Stories

• A better shot at predicting kidney failure?
• Sealing the cracks in test result followup
• Labs ponder the latest in cost-saving schemes
• Helping hands—latest devices lift positive patient ID
      Barriers to bringing in PPID systems
• Nanotechnology speeds DNA, RNA extraction from tissue

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• Put it On The Board
• Letters
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
        Interested in submitting a question?
• Newsbytes
• Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
  Vendors toil and tinker to refine chemistry analyzers
       Chemistry analyzers for mid- and high-volume laboratories (PDF, 260 KB)
  
   Printers/labels/wristbands for positive patient identification (PDF, 112 KB)
   Positive patient identification products (PDF, 540 KB)

June 2011

Cover Story

• Testing recurrence risk for breast cancer

Feature Stories

• Custom test options for triaging ancillary tests
• HCV superstars spotlight viral load testing
• AACC sessions fill not-so-obvious knowledge gaps
• New AMA rule for CME
• In whole genome era, whole new challenges
• Cancer genomics: the exception now, but semiroutine soon?
• Minting QC and efficiency gains with middleware

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• Put it On The Board
• Shorts on Standards
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
        Interested in submitting a question?
• Newsbytes
• Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
  Immunoassay analyzers: an ever-expanding selection
       Automated immunoassay analyzers (PDF, 540 KB)

May 2011

Cover Story

• Infectious disease meets mass spectrometry

Feature Stories

• Fresh approach to micro—front-end robotics
• Patient safety errors on the CHOPing block
• Ins and outs of AST highlight proficiency challenges
• In Memoriam
• Making a match between pathology, mammography
• The evolving new role of laboratory professionals

Cytopathology And More

• Use of cytology and small biopsy specimens in diagnosing, treating lung cancer
• Validating and verifying molecular tests in cytopathology
• Similarities, differences between anal and cervical cancer screening
• Getting to know us

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• Put it On The Board
• Letters
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
        Interested in submitting a question?
• Newsbytes
• Information systems product guide:
  When billing systems offer labs rich rewards
       Billing/accounts receivable/RCM systems (PDF, 215 KB)
  
• Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
  POC coag technology path: simple to savvy
       Coagulation analyzers—point of care, self-monitoring (PDF, 188 KB)

April 2011

Cover Story

• Next-gen sequencing in clinical debuts

Feature Stories

• At last, answers on micromets
• Outsmarting flu with assays, novel drugs
• Molecular CPT codes topple old ‘stacking’ codes
• Making change—refining CAP’s cancer protocols
• In successful core lab rollouts, just a matter of time
• Learning how to live in pathology’s next phase

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
        Interested in submitting a question?
• Newsbytes
• Information systems product guide:
       Laboratory-provider links software (PDF, 10.9 MB)
  

March 2011

Cover Story

• Seeking the source of troubling tumors

Feature Stories

• Too far, too fast on ICU TGC?
• INR practice gaps found in Q-Probes
• Mr. Smith goes to Washington
• Sticking points—how to handle difficult blood draws
• Viewing inflammation, with markers new and old

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• On The Board
• Letters
• Shorts on Standards
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
        Interested in submitting a question?
• Newsbytes
• Information systems product guide:
       Middleware systems (PDF, 6.4 MB)
  
• Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
       Bedside Glucose Testing systems (PDF, 764 KB)

February 2011

Cover Story

• All for one—unifying CP and AP data

Feature Stories

• Parade of hopefuls in digital pathology
       Digital Pathology – Association
       Juan Rosai collection
• Tough calls aplenty in thyroid specimens
• 10 years out, POC connectivity standard still not in
• In Memoriam
• Can you share a few slides?
• EMR push—Lab leaders talk incentives, interfaces, integration
• Unified AP/LIS—‘one system, with one database’
• Nothing to kid about—STD testing in children, teens
       CDC sets new guidelines for STD diagnosis
       Finding multiple HPV genotypes in adolescent females

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• On The Board
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
        Interested in submitting a question?
• Newsbytes
• Information systems product guide:
       Anatomic pathology computer systems (PDF, 591 KB)

January 2011

Cover Story

• Conquering coag testing, from basics on up

Feature Stories

• A meeting of minds on patient consults
• Voice of choice for lab transcriptions
• New go-to guide for solving POC conundrums
        More education for waived labs
• Study aside, INR testing still homeward bound?
• What’s inside the 2011 physician fee schedule final rule

Cytopathology And More

• Digital cytopathology and telecytology: a method coming of age
• Machine? Medical director? What to put in cytology reports
• Imaging systems, workload limits, and screening accuracy
• New this year: Fields of View education course
• In the mail—Pap supplemental questionnaire
• Regionalizing education, fellowship training, and more

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
        Interested in submitting a question?
• Newsbytes
• Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
       Coagulation analyzers—ready for routine and special assays
           Coagulation analyzers (PDF, 156 KB)

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