Updated March 10, 2010

In This Month’s Issue – March 2010

Micrometastases still a waiting game
In the battle that is breast cancer, micrometastases are a little like Liechtenstein: a principality that may not be principal, despite appearing to be smack in the center of things.
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• 3 of a kind: CF screening
• Honing drug dosing with standardized eGFR
      Which estimate of kidney function is best for drug dosing?
• For WBC differentials, report in absolute numbers
• Cholesterol—rethinking set practices
• PC billing case comes to a close
• Sitting pretty—the power of endowed chairs

Regular Features

Volunteers needed in Haiti

The University of Miami/Project Medishare field hospital in Port-au-Prince needs pathologists and medical technologists willing to work for one-week periods in Haiti. If interested, please contact David Andrews, MD, at haiti.lab@gmail.com or 305-585-5895, option 2.

• President’s Desk
• Clinical Abstracts
• Anatomic Abstracts
• Q & A
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• Newsbytes
• Information systems product guide:
  If your lab’s AP system ain’t broke, just tweak it
       Anatomic pathology computer systems
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