March 2008 - Posts

AABB Scholarship
March 24, 2008 12:40 PM by Kerri Penno

AABB is currently accepting applications for the Suzanne Ledin Travel Award for Specialist in Blood Banking (SBB) Students. Anyone enrolled in, accepted into, or who has completed an SBB program within the past 12 months in an AABB-accredited institution Read More...

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CLMA Cancelled
March 21, 2008 12:43 PM by Kerri Penno

As you may have read already, CLMA's Thinklab '08 conference, scheduled for later this month in Atlanta, was cancelled due to damage inflicted on the venue by the recent tornados that swept the downtown area. Here is CLMA's statement: CLMA has just been Read More...

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CLMA ThinkLab Update
March 17, 2008 2:51 PM by Amanda Koehler

We asked CLMA to update us on the status of ThinkLab '08, to be held March 29-April 1 in Atlanta, where a recent tornado did some damage to the Georgia World Congress Center. Here's what they said: "CLMA is closely monitoring the situation in Atlanta Read More...

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Personal Politics
March 14, 2008 9:25 AM by Kerri Penno

Last month, HHS secretary Michael Leavitt (or Mike, as he goes by in his blog ) posted a comment about the urgent state of Medicare, which accounts for 56 percent of the HHS budget. Left as is, Medicare is just 11 years from going broke, Mike pointed Read More...

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Get Real
March 12, 2008 11:48 AM by Kerri Penno

After returning from the tropical vacation of my dreams last week, I am back to the daily grind. With an article to write, our Grad issue deadlining and a looming Web update on my schedule, I barely had time to register my caffeine stock was running empty Read More...

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Celebrating Lab Week
March 10, 2008 9:41 AM by Amanda Koehler

NMLPW will be here before you know it. What does your lab do to celebrate? Do you have a pot-luck dinner with your staff? Do you give lab tours for other facility employees and visitors? How about holding a scavenger hunt? Let's brainstorm together! Share Read More...

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Slow, Painstaking Work
March 1, 2008 12:57 AM by Matthew T. Patton

I wrote an editorial in 2006 about my cousin, Scarlett Parsley-Hooker, who was killed in a plane crash in Lexington, KY. The flight was a domestic short run from Lexington to Atlanta. On the morning of Aug. 27, 2006, the flight crashed while attempting Read More...

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