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Best Practices in Molecular Assay Validation for Laboratory-Developed Tests

This comprehensive white paper is designed to be your go-to guide, providing invaluable insights into critical success factors and essential functions crucial for maintaining compliance and delivering reliable results. Tailored for clinical molecular laboratory staff, this resource delves into the tangible aspects of compliant method validation, offering practical strategies for proving the accuracy and efficacy of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs).

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Point of Care Testing for Infectious Diseases: Navigating CLIA Compliance and Ensuring Quality

This white paper serves as a practical guide to enhance the understanding of the POCT team regarding critical success factors and essential functions needed to sustain compliance and produce reliable results. It focuses on the tangible aspects of good laboratory practice and regulatory compliance in routine and urgent patient care settings. This resource will be particularly beneficial to nursing and other clinical staff involved in patient testing.

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The Case of the Missing Mole: When costly Lost or Missing Laboratory Test Samples Instigate Courier Management Redesign

Incidents of lost or missing laboratory test samples carry heavy consequences. Yet, many laboratories find that accountability, reconciliation, and tracking persist as issues. This white paper will be useful for laboratory directors, lab managers, courier managers, logistics managers, and outreach managers—whether in hospital-based laboratories or independent medical laboratories working as outreach labs—who employ and manage couriers in-house.

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Latest E-Briefings

Amazon One Medical Call Centers Found Wanting in Washington Post Report

Patients concerns about the quality of care provided since Amazon acquired One Medical in 2022 can affect clinical laboratory testing for those providers Recently, The Washington Post reported on leaked documents that appear to indicate Amazon’s One Medical primary...

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At-Home Paper Influenza Test Differentiates Strains, Gives Hope for Improved Screening and Surveillance of Viral Outbreaks

Researchers used CRISPR-based assays to develop new clinical laboratory point-of-care blood test which boasts accuracy, affordability, and accessibility Here’s a novel use of paper as clinical laboratory test media. Researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey,...

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Researchers in China Develop AI-powered Tool That Can Diagnose Three Cancers Using a Drop of Dried Blood

Use of artificial intelligence in clinical laboratory testing could improve the diagnosis of cancer worldwide In a proof of concept study, scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have developed a clinical laboratory test that utilizes artificial...

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Mayo Clinic Scientists Use Chemical Analysis of Beethoven’s Hair to Determine Lead Poisoning May Have Contributed to Composer’s Hearing Loss and Other Health Ailments

Results of an earlier study in which locks of Beethoven’s hair underwent genetic analysis showed the composer ‘had a predisposition for liver disease and became infected with hepatitis B’ Here is an example of modern technologies being used with “historical...

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Brigham and Women’s Hospital Researchers Develop Implantable ‘Lab in a Patient’ to Test Effectiveness of Brain Cancer Drugs

Scientists reported positive Phase 1 trial results of their “intratumoral microdevice” in patients with glioma tumors Here is an example of new microtechnology which has the potential to greatly shorten the time and improve the ability of physicians to determine which...

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University of Cincinnati Pathologist Develops Speedier Tissue Processing for Small Biopsies

Syringe-based technique is disposable and enables clinical laboratories to process small biopsies in about two hours instead of overnight and with significantly less waste Histotechnologists and clinical laboratory managers know that the standard method of processing...

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Fred Hutch Researchers Identify Oral Bacteria That Appear to Play a Role in Certain Colon Cancers

Discovery highlights how ongoing microbiome research points to new opportunities that can lead to development of more effective cancer screening clinical laboratory tests New research from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle once again demonstrates that the...

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UPMC Researchers Develop Biomarkers That Identify Biological Age While Also Predicting Disease Risk

Scientists turned to metabolomics to find cause of biological aging and release index of 25 metabolites that predict healthy and rapid agers Researchers at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified...

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Woman Performs Do-it-yourself Fecal Transplant to Relieve Symptoms of IBS, Gets Donor’s Acne

Clinical laboratory scientists and microbiologists could play a role in helping doctors explain to patients the potential dangers of do-it-yourself medical treatments Be careful what you wish for when you perform do-it-yourself (DIY) medical treatments. That’s the...

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Dutch Patient with Longest COVID-19 Case of 612 Days Had More than 50 SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Before He Died

Study of the 50 Omicron variants could lead to new approaches to clinical laboratory testing and medical treatments for long COVID Patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 can usually expect the COVID-19 illness to subside within a couple of weeks. However, one Dutch patient...

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