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 legislation contributed to a dramatic expansion in newborn screening for treatable ...

We received the following press release from the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science: Congress is considering including Medicare cuts as part of the debt limit legislative package. One of the potential Medicare cuts would impose a new 20 percent coinsurance on clinical laboratory services. As you know from past efforts to impose ...

If you have not made plans to attend the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) Annual Meeting this summer, you still have time to do so. The meeting is designed for you and your professional needs. The meeting offers educational topics that promote advanced learning in the science and practice of clinical laboratory science as ...

I was invited to visit Singapore as an external examiner for the Diploma in Biomedical Science program offered by the School of Chemical and Life Sciences of Singapore Polytechnic. I visited with faculty, staff, and administrators of the school. I also met with students (see photo) and graduates of the program. They were excited about their chosen ...

The American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) announced that it is being joined by sister organizations CLMA, ASCP, and AMT  to observe  the 2011 Legislative Symposium. Observed by ASCLS since  1989, Legislative Symposium (or Legislative Days, as it is commonly called) will be observed March 21-22, 2011. This is a ...

There is a bill winding its way through the Georgia General Assembly that threatens clinical laboratory licensure in the state. Sponsored by a nurse legislator, the bill HB 994 has had 2 reads. Ostensibly the intention is to save money. After all, those pesky visits from state inspectors eat up more in terms of employee salaries and other ...

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 Committee.  The organization told the Committee Chair that: the ...

Today President Obama repealed an order signed by former President Bush back in 2001 restricting federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The executive order lifts some of the limitations on the types of embryonic stem cell research receiving government funding, according to Josephine Johnston, MS, LLB, a research scholar at The ...

In the past few weeks, media coverage and public opinion has surrounded Nadya Suleman, who recently gave birth to octuplets, bringing her brood to a whopping 14 children. While the celebrity gossip magazines have focused on Suleman's family's disapproval, past 911 calls and resemblance to Angelina Jolie, the fertility industry has honed in on ...

''We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise healthcare's quality and lower its cost.'' President Barack Obama made this promise just 3 days ago during his inauguration address and, as with his plans to examine spending and realign military actions in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq, we're already seeing ...