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• Wireless capsule endoscopy. (Paper)

  Author:P. SwainFrom:Gut (Vol. 52, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20033,159 words Article Gastroscopy, small bowel endoscopy, and colonoscopy are uncomfortable because they require comparatively large diameter flexible cables to be pushed into the bowel, which carry light by fibreoptic bundles, power, and...

• The supraregional assay service: about to lose the benefits of centralisation

  Author:Eva LesterFrom:British Medical Journal (Vol. 304, Issue 6830) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 28, 1992809 words Editorial About to lose the benefits of centralisation Few doctors have much to do with the supraregional assay service: a busy general hospital with an active clinical endocrinology department might send it requests for one...

• A guide to in-office testing

  Authors:Daniel M. Baer, E. Eugene Baillie, and Herbert K. NaitoFrom:Patient Care (Vol. 27, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 15, 19931,342 words Article Physicians who desire to use an in-office medical laboratory must comply with regulations set forth in the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988. Factors to consider and regulations are described. The...

• Medical lab fined for misreading pap smears

  From:Trial (Vol. 32, Issue 5)

  May 199691 words Brief article A suburban Milwaukee medical laboratory charged with reckless homicide for allegedly misreading Pap smears of two women who later died of cervical cancer received the maximum penalty--a $20,000 fine. Chem-Bio Corp.,...

• Identification of Factors Contributing to Variability in a Blood-Based Gene Expression Test

  Authors:Michael R. Elashoff, Rachel Nuttall, Philip Beineke, Michael H. Doctolero, Mark Dickson, Andrea M. Johnson, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 3, 20123,592 words Article 1480LAuthor(s): Michael R. Elashoff, Rachel Nuttall, Philip Beineke, Michael H. Doctolero, Mark Dickson, Andrea M. Johnson, Susan E. Daniels, Steven Rosenberg, James A. Wingrove * Introduction Peripheral blood gene...

• Clinical Laboratory Quality Practices When Hemolysis Occurs

  Authors:Peter J. Howanitz, Christopher M. Lehman, Bruce A. Jones, Frederick A. Meier, and Gary L. HorowitzFrom:Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (Vol. 139, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20154,143 words Survey 1870LContext.--Hemolyzed specimens delay clinical laboratory results, proliferate unnecessary testing, complicate physician decisions, injure patients indirectly, and increase health care costs. Objective.--To determine...

• Increasing antibiotic resistance in Shigella spp. from infected New York City Residents, New York, USA

  Authors:Kenya Murray, Vasudha Reddy, John S. Kornblum, HaeNa Waechter, Ludwin F. Chicaiza, Inessa Rubinstein, et al.From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 20172,017 words Article 1270LApproximately 20% of Shigella isolates tested in New York City, New York, USA, during 2013-2015 displayed decreased azithromycin susceptibility. Case-patients were older and more frequently male and HIV infected than...

• Improvement in physician's office laboratory practices, 1989-1994

  Authors:Tina M. St. John, Harvey B. Lipman, John M. Krolak, and Thomas L. HearnFrom:Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (Vol. 124, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20005,792 words Survey Background.--In 1986 and 1989, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sponsored institutes on Critical Issues in Health Laboratory Practice. It was noted during the institutes that physician's office...

• Establishing a Clinical Laboratory in a Tertiary/Quaternary Care Greenfield Hospital in the Middle East: Recounting the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Experience

  Authors:Imran Mirza, Laila O. AbdelWareth, Muneezeh Liaqat, Peter Anderson, Bryson Palmer, Andrew Turner, et al.From:Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (Vol. 142, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 201810,310 words Report 1510LContext.--This review chronicles the establishment of a clinical laboratory in Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, a greenfield tertiary/quaternary care hospital in the United Arab Emirates. It discusses the challenges faced,...

• Hereditary thrombophilia (rare multiple genetic defects combination) caused portal vein thrombosis complicated by hypersplenism and pancytopenia

  Authors:Sally Eldin, Nora Abbas, Noha Mohamed, and Aml NasrFrom:Research and Opinion in Anesthesia and Intensive Care (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  July-September 20172,200 words Article 1180LByline: Sally. Eldin, Nora. Abbas, Noha. Mohamed, Aml. Nasr Venous thrombosis is the third-ranking cardiovascular disease following only coronary heart disease and stroke [1]. Venous thrombosis has an overall yearly...

• Lessons From a Proficiency Testing Event for Acid-Fast Microscopy(*)

  Authors:Akos Somoskovi, Jacquelin E. Hotaling, Marie Fitzgerald, Dianne O'Donnell, Linda M. Parsons, and Max SalfingerFrom:Chest (Vol. 120, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20014,199 words Article Objectives: To evaluate the routine performance and the technical parameters of different acid-fast staining methods: Kinyoun, Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN), auramine, and auramine-rhodamine. Design and participants: The...

• Will health marketplace apps improve laboratories?

  Authors:Jacob McKnight and Ken FlemingFrom:Indian Journal of Cancer (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  October-December 2019974 words Editorial 1380LByline: Jacob. McKnight, Ken. Fleming Effective cancer care relies on high-quality affordable laboratory support. However, the following scene may well be familiar to oncologists across the region: A patient lies...

• Reduction in Hospital-Wide Clinical Laboratory Specimen Identification Errors following Process Interventions: A 10-Year Retrospective Observational Study

  Authors:Hsiao-Chen Ning, Chia-Ni Lin, Daniel Tsun-Yee Chiu, Yung-Ta Chang, Chiao-Ni Wen, Shu-Yu Peng, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 5, 20165,026 words Report 1440LBackground Accurate patient identification and specimen labeling at the time of collection are crucial steps in the prevention of medical errors, thereby improving patient safety. Methods All patient specimen...

• Specimen rejections among referred specimens through referral network to the Amhara Public Health Institute for laboratory testing, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

  Authors:Melashu Balew Shiferaw, Gizachew Yismaw, and Hailu GetachewFrom:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 1, 20182,429 words Report 1370LObjective The aim of this study was to assess the magnitude, trend and reasons of rejection among referred specimens through referral network to the Amhara Public Health Institute (APHI) for laboratory testing....

• The evolution and current applications of hand-assisted laparoscopy: introduced to help surgeons overcome some of the obstacles associated with conventional laparoscopy, HAL has established itself as a viable and prominent technique in its own right for both the novice and the advanced laparoscopist

  Authors:Ravi Munver, Joseph J. Del Pizzo, and R. Ernest SosaFrom:Contemporary Urology (Vol. 15, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed

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• US biomedical-research facilities unprepared for attacks and natural disasters

  Author:Sara ReardonFrom:Nature (Vol. 548, Issue 7667) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 17, 2017706 words Article 1490LAuthor(s): Sara Reardon When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in 2012, the storm The report, released by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, looked at what happened to research...

• Agilent buys HER2 test firm

  Author:Susan AldridgeFrom:Nature Biotechnology (Vol. 30, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 2012210 words Brief article 1400LIn the biggest deal in its history, scientific testing equipment maker Agilent Technologies acquired diagnostics firm Dako for $2.2 billion. The all-cash deal signals Santa Clara, California-based Agilent's intention to...

• Biosafety bumped

  From:Nature (Vol. 487, Issue 7407) Peer-Reviewed

  July 19, 201293 words Brief article 1330LOpponents of plans to build a National Bio- and Agro Defense Facility (NBAF) in Kansas are cheering a review released on 13 July by the US National Research Council. The NBAF would be the only US lab able to study...

• New Technology for Detecting Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory

  Authors:Lance R. Peterson and Gary A. NoskinFrom:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20014,511 words Article Northwestern Memorial Hospital instituted in-house molecular typing to rapidly assess microbial clonality and integrated this typing into an infection control program. We compared data on nosocomial infections collected...

• The LR method in critical areas: airflow patterns and the design of aseptic interventions

  Authors:Bengt Ljungqvist and Berit ReinmullerFrom:Pharmaceutical Technology (Vol. 28, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20042,595 words Article The authors discuss factual case studies involving the method for the limitation-of-risks (LR) method. This method can be used as an engineering tool in risk assessment work for the identification, minimization, and...