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Job Hunt for New Grads
April 8, 2011 9:54 AM
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Amanda Koehler
It's already April, warmer weather is around the corner (hopefully!) and in just a few weeks, many students will be graduating and ready to enter the "real world." I was trying to find a job during my last few weeks of college. While polishing up my résumé
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Identifying and Implementing Non-Labor Cost Savings in Your Lab
March 27, 2011 10:03 PM
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Matthew T. Patton
Don't miss this ASCLS Annual Meeting session, sponsored by ADVANCE Newsmagazines : Identifying and Implementing Non-Labor Cost Savings in Your Lab Presented by J.R. Constance, MHA, MT(ASCP), Rodric Consulting, LLC; and Deb Rodahl, MLS(ASCP)CM, HealthEast
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Editorial: Healthcare Sans Wires
March 2, 2011 8:53 PM
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Matthew T. Patton
I admit I am, without a doubt, addicted to my iPhone. Full-blown addiction. As in the cannot live without it, frustrated when I don't have 3G service, use it as my watch and alarm, to constantly check Facebook, consider it an extension of who I am as
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Violence in the Healthcare Setting
June 5, 2010 8:23 PM
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Matthew T. Patton
A new Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert warns that healthcare facilities today are being confronted with steadily increasing rates of crime, including assault, rape and murder. The Alert urges greater attention to the issue of violence and to controlling
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Live Coverage: Building Bridges
May 25, 2010 3:32 PM
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Kerri Penno
This morning, discussion about different career paths for microbiologists continued, with presentations on non-academic career paths in microbiology, while in another part of the expansive San Diego Convention Center, Darcy Kimball and Heather Peterson
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Scholarship for Maryland Residents
January 26, 2010 11:51 AM
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Amanda Koehler
The Maryland Association for Health Care Recruitment is accepting applications for a $1,000 allied health scholarship called the Georgan R. Kline Scholarship. This scholarship will be awarded on an annual basis to applicants in their sophomore, junior
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AMP Starts on Positive Note
November 20, 2009 11:14 AM
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Matthew T. Patton
KISSIMMEE, FL -- Christmas decorations next to palm trees are a fun treat for your Philadelphia-based reporter at the Gaylord Palms Convention Center in Kissimmee, FL, where opening remarks for the 15th Annual Meeting of the Association for Molecular
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Signs of the Times
November 13, 2009 1:46 PM
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Matthew T. Patton
Acknowledging healthcare reform has been controversial would definitely be an understatement. Almost everywhere I've traveled lately I've heard highly emotional and passionate positions for both sides of the debate. This past weekend, a large group of
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Be SMART
September 28, 2009 3:50 PM
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Kerri Penno
bioMérieux, an in vitro diagnostics company, heightened its role in the fight against antimicrobial resistance by launching its Solutions to Manage the Antimicrobial Resistance Threat (SMART) Campaign at the 49th Annual Interscience Conference for Antimicrobial
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Artel Launches Online Training Videos
August 10, 2009 12:26 PM
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Caitlin Maloney
Artel, Westbrook, ME, a liquid handling company, announced the launch of an online series of pipetting technique training videos at http://www.artel-usa.com/ . The new addition to the company's training tools includes a series of 10 two-minute videos
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SGO Publishes Paper on HPV Vaccine’s Impact on Cervical Cancer
August 4, 2009 12:50 PM
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Caitlin Maloney
The Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO) has published the first of a four paper series on a cervical cancer issues and topics that were the focus of last September's SGO forum "The Future Strategies for Cervical Cancer Prevention: What Do We Need
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AACC Unveils New Lab Tests Online Web site
July 29, 2009 3:12 PM
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Caitlin Maloney
The AACC, a professional society dedicated to improving healthcare though laboratory medicine, has unveiled a rebranded and resigned Lab Tests Online Web site. After 9 years and more than 200 million page views, the AACC finally revealed the change at
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Quality Control and Quality Management
July 24, 2009 11:03 AM
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Matthew Patton
Precision and accuracy for quality control used to be a lot more simple said Elissa Passiment, executive director of ASCLS. She presented Friday morning on quality control management. CDC and CLSI have evaluated quality control systems and are examining
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Who Is Going to Lead Your Laboratory in 2014?
July 23, 2009 3:25 PM
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Matthew Patton
Approximately 20 percent of lab managers report planning to retire in the next 5 years, and a shortage of nearly 5,000 medical technologists is projected per year. On Thursday afternoon, Tara Kochis, executive vice president of Slone Partners, Miami Beach,
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The Educational Tool Box
July 22, 2009 3:45 PM
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Matthew Patton
Brandy Greenhill, MS, MT(ASCP), assistant professor, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, spoke Wednesday afternoon at McCormick Place, providing tips on how to enhance educational activities for medical lab students. One idea she defined
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