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AACC Urges Action
May 21, 2013 11:43 AM by Kerri Penno
The AACC is urging laboratory professionals to contact their members of Congress and request that they support H.R.1248, the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act, which would preserve recent advances in state newborn screening programs. Earlier Read More...
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The Fine Print
March 20, 2013 4:43 PM by Michael Jones
I remember when the Body Worlds Exhibit came to my local museum. I couldn’t believe it -- those were real people. My dad laughed when I told him about it and said, “That’s why you really have to read the fine print when you sign up to be an organ donor.” Read More...
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Uncertainty in Healthcare
May 9, 2012 11:42 AM by Lynn
It’s hard enough to work in an environment where there’s some uncertainty—perhaps regarding job security, technology implementations and effects and the like. Today, however, there’s monumental vagueness or doubts on a host of issues directly impacting Read More...
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Would You Get YOUR Genome Sequenced?
March 28, 2012 12:20 PM by Valerie Newitt
If you could have your genome sequenced and unlock all of the secrets your DNA holds, would you? I asked that question of Dr. Robert Daber, technical director of Clinical Genomics at the Center for Personalized Diagnostics, and Dr. Jennifer Morrissette, Read More...
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Facebook Feedback: Changes and Improvements
August 17, 2011 10:33 AM by Matthew T. Patton
If you're not following us on Facebook , you're missing a lot of fun feedback. If you are, keep following and spread the word! The conversations are far from over. We asked Facebook fans: "If you could ask for one improvement in your lab, what would it Read More...
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Don't Laugh at Me
July 31, 2011 4:31 PM by Matthew T. Patton
Guest post by Anthony L. DeWitt Every healthcare worker tends to have a gallows sense of humor. It comes from the nearly constant exposure to pain, suffering, death and dying. Without an ability to laugh at the bad things that happen every day, no health Read More...
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Seek Care Elsewhere?
April 7, 2010 11:56 AM by Amanda Koehler
Since the healthcare reform bill passed, you've probably heard people talking politics at work, at restaurants, at home. Maybe you've even participated in the discussions. Even in the workplace, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, as long as you are respectful Read More...
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Signs of the Times
November 13, 2009 1:46 PM by 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 Read More...
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CLC Writes the Senate
August 28, 2009 8:43 AM by Amanda Koehler
ADVANCE received the following press release from ASCLS: "The Clinical Laboratory Coalition, of which ASCLS is a member, has written the Senate Finance Committee after learning a 20 percent Medicare laboratory co-pay was being proposed by the Senate Finance 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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Learning From History? Maybe Not
October 24, 2007 12:19 PM by Matthew T. Patton
I'm a huge genealogy and history buff. While recently looking over the "Biennial Report of the State Board of Health (1902-1903)" for Kentucky, I came across this report from the county doctor, T. Atchison Frazer, MD. Dr. Frazer was in the era of the Read More...
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