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Chronic Disease
Chronic Disease: A disease that persists for an extended amount of time. In order for the disease to be considered chronic, it lasts for about 3 months or more. These diseases often cannot be prevented by vaccines or cured by medication, nor do they just disappear.
OCT 13, 2022 | 1:00 PM
The diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is challenging during pregnancy. Pregnant women often present with symptoms compatible with VTE. The use of conventional diagnostic algorithms is...
OCT 06, 2022 | 5:00 PM
Genetic biomarkers have become increasingly important for disease prediction, early disease detection and progression, and options for intervention. Tumor biopsies are commonly used as sourc...
SEP 15, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: September 15, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Tyrosine kinases, a ubiquitous and diverse family of enzymes, are of considerable clinical interest because they dir...
SEP 07, 2022 | 1:00 PM
Getting It Right: Preanalytical Impact on Coagulation Results Using a Case Study Approach According to published literature, up to 65% of errors occur in the preanalytical phase of laborator...
JUL 28, 2022 | 6:00 AM
Date: July 28, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Hepatitis B and C continues to be a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, resulting in 1.1 million deaths and 3 million new in...
JUN 02, 2022 | 8:00 AM
Infectious diseases present a great challenge to global health and its economy. The 2020 SARS- CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the importance of rapid identification, characterization and surveil...
MAY 04, 2022 | 5:30 AM
Neurological manifestations, including headache, altered mental status, and stroke, are a major complication of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and cor...
APR 29, 2022 | 12:00 AM
According to published literature, up to 65% of errors occur in the preanalytical phase of laboratory testing, and coagulation assays are particularly sensitive to preanalytical issues......
APR 27, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: April 27, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Abnormal accumulation of misfolded tau protein in filaments characterizes more than 20 neurodegenerative diseases—c...
APR 25, 2022 | 12:00 AM
The Patient is Bleeding: Balancing Clinical and Laboratory Needs Coagulopathy in the bleeding surgical patient can get worse by the second! One of the real-world operational challenges......
FEB 25, 2022 | 2:00 PM
Perhaps more than any other area of clinical medicine, anticoagulation management laboratory data are evaluated hourly by healthcare systems in the inpatient setting and daily in the outpatie...
FEB 23, 2022 | 11:55 PM
The continued evolution of precision medicine from the early successes seen in Oncology to other areas of medicine, in particular, Chronic Disease Management, is dependent on the efficient t...
DEC 14, 2021 | 6:00 AM
Date: December 14, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PST), 9:00am (EST) Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus and is a leading cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide. The...
NOV 30, 2021 | 11:00 AM
Date: November 30, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT) In the recent years, measurable residual disease (MRD) assessment on multiple myeloma patients has gained increasing relevance. After...
OCT 13, 2021 | 10:30 AM
Severe SARS-CoV-2 infection often leads to development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), with profound pulmonary patho-histological changes post-mortem. In this study, we utiliz...
AUG 25, 2021 | 10:30 AM
Emerging data from several expansive clinical trials indicates that common chronic vascular risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and age increase the risk of stroke and deme...
AUG 24, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Date: August 24, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Liver cancer is the third cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Most patients have chronic liver disease, which has allowed...
JUL 15, 2021 | 2:00 PM
Lupus anticoagulants and antiphospholipid syndrome: Resolving confusion, providing new guideline updates...