Updated November 12, 2009

In This Month’s Issue – November 2009

Residual AML testing: methods but no map
When it comes to detecting minimal residual disease in patients undergoing therapy for acute myeloid leukemia, laboratorians face a conundrum similar to our society’s dietary debate.
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• Labs’ problem child: the difficult test order
• With MRSA, what makes the right fight?
       The long-term care challenge
• Revving the engines on evidence-based guidelines
• At Futurescape, a look at next-generation IHC
• Seventeen standouts honored for their service
• An informatics toolset for joint venture outreach
• National patient ID: could a voluntary system fill the gap?

Regular Features

• President’s Desk
• Letters
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
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• Newsbytes
• Information systems product guide:
  Annual lineup of lab information systems
       Laboratory information systems (PDF, 625 KB)