There are many life situations which makes us ponder the positive glass half full versus the negative glass half empty viewpoints. And when things are really going good, we tend to feel that our glasses are filled up to the rim. Just recently a team of sleep therapists collaborating with cell biologists are singing that their glasses are filled ...

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has published M54-A-Principles and Procedures for Detection of Fungi in Clinical Specimens-Direct Examination and Culture; Approved Guideline. The new document addresses the protocols for detecting fungi in clinical specimens and highlights direct microscopic examinations and fungal culturing ...

We're launching a new column in 2013 and we need your help. Melissa Scott is a senior consultant at Altegra Health, who works with clinical laboratories, physician offices, hospitals, academic medical centers and health plans on their billing, compliance and system analytics challenges. In her new role as ADVANCE columnist, ...

We're launching a new column in 2013 and we need your help. Melissa Scott is a senior consultant at Altegra Health, who works with clinical laboratories, physician offices, hospitals, academic medical centers and health plans on their billing, compliance and system analytics challenges. In her new role as ADVANCE columnist, ...

As he takes the helm as the 2012-2013 President of the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Joel M. Shilling, MD, FASCP, compares the collaboration needed for the patient care team to that required in the sport of dragon boating. Dragon boats involve a 40- to 48-foot canoe with 20 crew members, each using paddles and following orders ...

As he takes the helm as the 2012-2013 President of the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), Joel M. Shilling, MD, FASCP, compares the collaboration needed for the patient care team to that required in the sport of dragon boating. Dragon boats involve a 40- to 48-foot canoe with 20 crew members, each using paddles and following orders ...

Doctors can best determine whether a woman has an aggressive or slow-growing form of breast cancer by testing the level of a protein in tumors that have spread outside the breast, suggests preliminary research presented at the 2012 American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Annual Meeting in Boston, Oct. 31–Nov. 3.  The Ki-67 protein is ...

Doctors can best determine whether a woman has an aggressive or slow-growing form of breast cancer by testing the level of a protein in tumors that have spread outside the breast, suggests preliminary research presented at the 2012 American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Annual Meeting in Boston, Oct. 31–Nov. 3.  The Ki-67 protein is ...

As 2,000 experts in pathology and laboratory medicine from around the world converge in Boston this week for stimulating presentations, education sessions, and lively discussions on scientific research, trends, and issues facing the pathology and medical laboratory professions at the ASCP Annual Meeting, conference organizers seek to emphasize ...

A founding father of cytology and a leader in several prominent medical societies, Leopold G. Koss, MD, FASCP, passed away earlier this month, in New York. He was 92 and worked until the end of his life at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y. A native of Poland, Dr. Koss received his primary education ...