Advances in clinical laboratory techniques and molecular analysis are reshaping our approach to therapy and diagnosis. Explore emerging diagnostic technology and the latest insights in the microbial community in these webinars.
Acute and chronic pain are often managed with drug therapy, which may include extended use of drug classes such as opioids and benzodiazepines. Pain does not go away, and may intensify...
Transcriptional profiling of the tumor microenvironment can lead to insights about the interaction between the tumor and immune system. This facilitates investigation of immune evasion mechan...
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has become the leading cause of healthcare associated infections in the United States and currently accounts for 15% to 20% of infectious diarrhea in the...
Dr. Tony Hu’s research focuses on developing and validating integrated nanotechnique-based strategies for marker discovery and molecular diagnostics in peripheral blood samples to provi...
This session will review and describe the basic steps of a biosafety risk assessment for clinical laboratories. The risk of exposure to infectious agents exists in every clinical labora...
The integration of next-generation sequencing (NGS) tests into clinical laboratory practice across medical disciplines provides medically actionable data that in some cases are not otherwise...
The advent of next generation sequencing has transformed the way we identify mutations with clinical implications. As the compendium of variants expands, gathering the most current and accura...
Despite the fact that screening for many cancers is associated with net harm, healthcare consumers continue to be screened. PSA is the most commonly performed laboratory screening test for ca...
Currently, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in North America, the most frequent malignancy in men from all ethnicities, surpassing lung cancer. Prostate tumors...
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) emerged in the United States around 2000. Initially, synthetic cannabinoids and stimulants prevailed. Now, designer opioids, benzodiazepines an...
Many direct immunoassays in use today for testosterone analysis are little better than a guess at the low levels that are sometimes required. This has led many clinical societies to adv...
Do you have targets that are difficult to genotype? Are you starting new projects and looking for a fast, convenient genotyping solution?Whether detecting mitochondrial disease targets, s...
Pregnancy represents a time of rapid bodily change, which include physical proportions, physiology and responsibility. Arguably, nothing during these times changes more than the requirement a...
Many Americans have succumbed to the scare tactics of the dermatological community, and avoid sunlight for fear of skin cancer and premature aging. Therefore, most of us suffer from vitamin D...
In 2012, Consumers Reports and the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation launched the Choosing Wisely campaign. This initiative, which attracts media attention, assists physicians, n...
Monitoring unfractionated heparin (UFH) using the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) or the anti-factor Xa (anti-Xa) chromogenic assay still seems to be a controversy. Is the...
Cancer research diagnostic services in pathology laboratories worldwide have been negatively impacted by a lack of fresh-frozen tissue samples, the degradation of DNA and RNA in archival tiss...
DATE: November 1, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETOver 1.6 million people are diagnosed with sepsis in the U.S. each year1 and sepsis is the #1 cost of hospitalization (ove...
DATE: October 26, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETMass spectrometry has gained tremendous interests in clinical applications in the past decade to serve patients needs. W...
DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDTTesting for antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) has been a routine part of the evaluation of patients with a suspected connective tissue dis...
DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 06:00am PDT, 09:00am EDTThis is the third topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’.Repetitive DNA...
DATE: October 19, 2017TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT Recent FDA approval of the first Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy offers cancer patients more promise than...
DATE: October 18, 2017TIME: 8:00 AM PST, 11:00 AM ESTOver the past decade, 25-OH vitamin D has become one of the most common assays requested by physicians.The increase in testing volum...
DATE: October 4th, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ET, 5:00PM (GMT+2)New HCV drugs are now approved which, when used in combination, yield very high rates of cure of HC...
DATE: September 27, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETTransplant Educational Webinar SeriesChallenges in CMV Management Management of CMV infected and immu...
DATE: September 26, 2017TIME: 8:00 AM PDTLaboratory science is a risky business – but much of that risk can be mitigated. By communicating the best information to the correct peop...
Acute and chronic pain are often managed with drug therapy, which may include extended use of drug classes such as opioids and benzodiazepines. Pain does not go away, and may intensify...
