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ADVANCE Outlook: Lab Professionals

MLPs from AL and KY
April 14, 2009 9:49 AM by Amanda Koehler
Attention, medical laboratory professionals from Alabama and Kentucky: do you love your state and your job? What do you like to do for fun? How are the job opportunities for laboratorians in your state? If you are from Alabama or Kentucky and you would Read More...
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Tweeting Results
March 30, 2009 9:48 AM by Amanda Koehler
This weekend I attended HealthCamp Philadelphia , an open forum, barcamp-style conference on healthcare and social media. This was the first type of gathering in the Philadelphia region, although there are other HealthCamps across the country. Phil Baumann, Read More...
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What's Your Type?
February 3, 2009 3:01 PM by Amanda Koehler
Apparently, in Japan knowing your blood type is akin to knowing what your astrological sign is. I ran across this article today and found it interesting. It says four of Japan's top 10 best-selling books in the last year were about how your blood type Read More...
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Looking for Sources
January 29, 2009 3:15 PM by Amanda Koehler
Do you enjoy where you live and work? Do you live in either New Jersey, New York, Arizona, New Mexico or Utah? If so, ADVANCE wants to interview you! We want to know what's unique to your area and what kinds of opportunities there are for laboratorians. Read More...
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Sports in Your Genes?
December 2, 2008 9:37 AM by Amanda Koehler
Genetics and personalized medicine are the wave of the future. Certain genetic tests for diseases such as breast cancer have been becoming popular and will continue to be important as time goes on. But some genetic tests may be, in some people's eyes, Read More...
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Smallpox Outbreak on TV Show
November 18, 2008 3:29 PM by Amanda Koehler
This year, CBS developed a new scientific drama, Eleventh Hour . The show is about a biophysicist who investigates scientific crises and oddities. In a recent episode of the show, titled "Containment," Dr. Jacob Hood ( Rufus Sewell ) investigates a smallpox Read More...
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Healthcare and the Economy
November 4, 2008 10:15 AM by Amanda Koehler
According to a story I wrote for our November 3 issue called "Pinching Pennies," a few lab directors reported to me that the failing economy has not impacted their laboratory too greatly. But this article says the state of the economy is making Americas Read More...
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Tips to Motivate and Retain Employees
October 28, 2008 10:07 AM by Amanda Koehler
In their book The New Manager's Tool Kit , Don and Sheryl Grimme give tips on things a new manager needs to know "to hit the ground running." The book focuses on how to lead people, how to be effective and how to optimize the contributions of your employees, Read More...
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An Interesting Incentive
October 16, 2008 1:53 PM by Amanda Koehler
For our July 28 issue, I wrote a cover story on blood bank incentives and how they are influencing the blood supply. Today I stumbled upon an interesting incentive I hadn't thought of while writing my story. Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, is offering Read More...
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Pall on Private Practice
October 2, 2008 12:24 PM by Amanda Koehler
Lab companies are making their debuts on primetime TV, including Pall Life Sciences, East Hills, NY. The Pall Cord Blood Sterile Collection Bag, which is used for cord blood collection during vaginal births and cesarean sections, and the Pall Cell Wash/Infusion Read More...
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New AIDS Vaccine Trial a Success in India
August 26, 2008 3:49 PM by Amanda Koehler
When it came to writing the August 25 cover story, "The Quest for an AIDS Vaccine," I found so much information on the potential vaccine that I didn't know what to do with it all. I also discovered many institutions around the world are at different points Read More...
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USA -- Science Savvy?
August 12, 2008 1:39 PM by Amanda Koehler
Today USA Today ran an article about Americans' outlook on science... and some of the statistics in the article are downright depressing. Here's a sampling: 70 percent of people believe the USA is not the world leader in science achievement. 79 percent Read More...
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Hollywood and the Lab Profession
August 4, 2008 10:56 AM by Amanda Koehler
Over the weekend, I was catching up on the first season of my new favorite show, Dexter . On the show, the main character does blood spatter analysis for the Miami police, and has a deep, dark secret -- he's a serial killer who kills other killers. Phew. Read More...
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Mainstream Media Acknowledges Shortage
August 1, 2008 1:34 PM by Amanda Koehler
A reader e-mailed me recently with a link to a Los Angeles Times article about the shortage of allied healthcare professionals. She was excited the mainstream media is "finally paying attention to the laboratory professional shortage." Here's a highlight Read More...
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AACC/ASCLS Meeting in Full Swing
July 31, 2008 12:08 AM by Matthew Patton
We're in Washington, DC for the annual confab of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry and American Society for Clnical Laboratory Science. And the meeting is moving along great according to its organizers. On Wednesday morning, the ASCLS awards Read More...
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