The US Preventive Services Task Force is recommending that healthy men should not be routinely screened with the PSA test. There has been a buzz that this decision was in the offing for several years now, so the final ruling is not a surprise to  many. The logic of course is that the test has a high degree of nonspecificity and is ...

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 ...

Primary results published in worldwide media reports this week suggest a combined blood test and ultrasound, termed a ''multimodal'' approach, may be the key to screening for ovarian cancer-known as a silent killer because symptoms do not appear until the disease is in its late and deadly stages. The results of the United Kingdom Collaborative ...

''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 ...

The FDA is under fire today, in the wake of a report released in JAMA yesterday, detailing the organization approved artificial blood substitute trials even after studies showed the products increased risk of heart attack and death. ''It's hard to understand,'' said Charles Natanson, MD, an NIH senior investigator who lead the analysis, in a ...

In November, a team of researchers reported they had genetically reprogrammed human skin cells to create cells indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells. Time magazine recently called this and other stem cell breakthroughs the top scientific discovery of 2007. The team, led by University of Wisconsin-Madison biologist James Thomson and Junying ...

George Fritsma, MS, MT (ASCP), lab practitioner, associate professor and author, recently launched an online, interactive hemostasis resource known as The Fritsma Factor. Designed for laboratory practitioners to share information and knowledge, the forum offers three components: a blog in which commentary and news is posted on a regular ...