Updated May 13, 2013

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April 2013

Cover Story

• New guidance on lung cancer testing

Feature Stories

• Missing transcripts, diplomas snag labs
• HCV, CMV viral load—treatment, testing, timing
• Yeast, molds, and more in 2 benchtop guides
• New attention on POC device disease transmission
• With NGS, new hope for managing thyroid nodules

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:
       Bedside glucose testing systems (PDF, 273 KB)
• Information systems product guide:
  In EHR world, LPL software still has its place
       Laboratory-provider links software (PDF, 1.3 MB)
  

March 2013

Cover Story

• Molecular walk-through for CRC testing

Feature Stories

• Houston study augurs possible shift in hrHPV genotypes
• TB or not TB? Newer assays settle in
• Order more tests? With diabetes, answer may be ‘yes’
• What happened when lab set sights on parasites
• Policing blood use pays off for Allina Laboratories

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:
       Bedside glucose testing systems (PDF, 273 KB)
• Information systems product guide:
  Middleware takes on molecular testing and more
       Middleware Systems (PDF, 565 KB)
  

February 2013

Cover Story

• Twilight zone for CVD risk markers?

Feature Stories

• AP tracking: an eagle eye on blocks and slides
• Steep climb to suitable reference standards
• Latest anticoagulants—nuts and bolts for labs
• Multilocus sequencing for rapid identification of molds
• Hemolysis—can better processes add up to millions?
• In Memoriam

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:
  Automation solutions a salve for labs of all sizes
       Laboratory automation systems and workcells (PDF, 449 KB)
• Information systems product guide:
  Annual lineup of anatomic pathology systems
       Anatomic pathology computer systems (PDF, 805 KB)
  

January 2013

Cover Story

• Triple play in lab’s MALDI-TOF efforts

Feature Stories

• Building the case for PGx testing
• Rx for optimizing rapid flu test performance
• New push to strengthen interim self-inspections
• President-elect, four governors to be elected
• How anticoags work, and what that means for labs

Cytopathology And More

• Endometrial cells in Pap tests—when are they significant?
• Screening and dotting digital/virtual slides: A new challenge
• New year, new online program: Pap Education Digital
• Touch Imprint/Crush Preparation—a new SAM course

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:
  In coag, all eyes on new anticoagulants and new systems
       Coagulation analyzers (PDF, 259 KB)

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