Updated August 17, 2010

In This Month’s Issue – August 2010

Labs seeing the light on practice guidelines
In 1989, a woman in North Carolina named Gina Burns was devastated when her one-week-old son died from a preventable disease: Group B Strep.
Full story

• Reeling in expense of reference lab testing
• New test could mean jump on lung cancer
• Packing POC dossier into new online tool kit
• Fourth-gen tests closing window on HIV detection
• Room to grow—warfarin self-testing still lags
• Ins and outs, plus doubts, about TC/PC setups

Cytopathology And More

• Two new checklist questions, changes to others
• Licensure—status in the states and scope of practice
• Benchmarking data for laboratory use in QA
• Survey of gynecologic cytopathology practices set to begin

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
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• Newsbytes
• Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
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