Based on the near-record attendance of our recent “Calibration Verification” webinar, this is a compelling topic for clinical laboratory professionals. We appreciate the questions you posed to our speaker and hope you are able to apply this new knowledge to your laboratory processes. Should you have additional questions, please send them our way ...

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 wonder if Bigfoot uses Facebook at work. That’s at least as farfetched a notion that giving access to a social networking site at work destroys productivity, which according to one study is only 1.5%, less than all the time spent at “breaks.” In the same study, 77 percent of Facebook junkies access the site while at work, perhaps up to two ...

In 2004, Sinai Hospital in Baltimore had 499 unlabeled specimens reach the lab. A multidisciplinary team reduced these errors 50%. Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota reduced labeling errors 75% with a zero tolerance (“Any Is Too Many” is their motto -- love it!!) policy with a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) team approach. A ...

Law and medicine careers may be losing self-respect, according to this article in the Dallas News. While these professions are still solidly supported by pay, security, schooling and responsibility, there is a sense that their status is waning.  Excerpt: This decline, Mr. Florida argued, is rooted in a broader shift in definitions of ...