Since the ASCP took over the popular and progressive NCA in 2009, I have periodically received emails from medical lab professionals not happy with the merger for various reasons.  Prompted by this overwhelming response, I have previously blogged about this subject. I have also addressed the mixed response to the move. Recently I have ...

With all this talk about sequestration everyone is bound to be concerned with how these spending cuts will affect them. Sequestration is such an odd word to be used Congress and picked up by the media as if it were a part of the regular lexicon.  It is a term with various meanings depending on one's background. As a clinical chemist, I know ...

Two items of news caught my attention this weekend. Tomorrow the Supreme Court will start hearing arguments about the constitutionality of  the healthcare reform law; the so called Obamacare.   Is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148) aimed at bringing basic healthcare to more Americans  or government ...

In a lame duck session, by a vote of 65 to 31, the US Senate voted to repeal  ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT)'' a 17-year -old law that prevented gays from serving openly in the military.  The bill now awaits the President's signature. For some, DADT is simply a bureaucratic issue of military procedure, but for many others it is a human ...

This morning as I engaged in one of my weekly rituals, watching the Sunday morning political shows, I realized once again how often reality and fantasy blur. Just because someone holds a strong opinion it does not mean that it is backed up by facts or substance. Take 2 of the topics this morning. First, the now-infamous couple of reality-show ...