New $52 Million Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory to Be Constructed in Dallas County, Texas
Level 3 bio labs handle Ebola, smallpox and other deadly diseases, and may play a role in research into the human genome Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a concerted effort to improve public health laboratories and increase the growth of bioresearch....
Private Healthcare on Rise as Britain’s Public Healthcare System Faces Horrific Conditions, Walkouts
Challenges abound as the NHS tries to recover before UK citizens move to private insurance; some patients have wait times of up to six months for a histopathology diagnosis of cancer Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is in dire straits. The UK’s vaunted...
Innovators Develop Multi-Analyte Pulse Oximeters That Accurately Read Oxygen Levels in People with Darker Skin Pigmentation
Multiple studies have shown that people with darker skin pigmentation run a higher risk of being misdiagnosed and undertreated than patients with lighter skin due to inaccurate oxygen level readings Though pulse oximeters are not a standard clinical laboratory device,...
City of Baltimore, University of Maryland Create Pilot Program to Train People to Work in Clinical Laboratories
Funded by the CDC, the program hopes to alleviate personnel shortages in Baltimore area clinical labs while also producing a knowledge base for lab managers nationwide Clinical laboratory managers struggling to fill vacant phlebotomy and accessioning positions will be...
British Junior Doctors Stage Four-Day Walkout Demanding Increased Pay and Better Working Conditions
More than 10,000 doctors walked out for the second time in two months, further burdening an already overwhelmed NHS On April 11, tens of thousands of junior doctors (similar to medical residents in the US) left their posts in British hospitals commencing a four-day...
Samsung Medical Center Combines 5G with Digital Pathology to Speed Anatomic Pathologist’s Readings of Frozen Sections, Cuts Test TAT in Half
HIMSS names SMC a ‘world leader’ in digital pathology and awards the South Korean Healthcare provider Stage 7 DIAM status Anatomic pathologists and clinical laboratory managers in hospitals know that during surgery, time is of the essence. While the patient is still...
COLA Clinical Laboratory Workforce Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, Engages Stakeholders in Effort to Train More Medical Laboratory Scientists
Representatives from almost 50 different clinical laboratories, professional associations, and societies came together this week to align efforts to expand the supply and retention of qualified laboratory scientists FORT WORTH, TEXAS—Last week, representatives from a...
Number of Unfilled Medical Residencies Increases in Alberta and Other Areas of Canada
Family medicine academic departments in Canada are dealing with a shortage of applicants qualified for their residency programs, mirroring the shortage of pathologists For the past decade, the number of medical residencies in Alberta Canada that went unfilled have...
Medical Residency ‘Match Day’ Yields Rare Mother and Son Placements with Mother Matched to Pathology Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
It was a special and unusual moment for this mother and son duo as they applied for acceptance into residency programs and were both matched on the same day Pathologists and other clinical laboratory scientists who underwent the matching process will be interested to...
Implications of Academia’s Early Adoption of Whole Slide Scanning and Digital Pathology Systems
Understanding requirements of digital pathology workflow matters as regulatory and reimbursement elements align toward wider adoption beyond 2023. Upcoming Dark Daily webinar May 10 to cover infrastructure requirements Nearly all pathology residents and fellows, as...
Great Resignation Hits Retail Pharmacies, Causing Shorter Hours, Closures
As with clinical laboratories, worker shortage is affecting large retail pharmacy chains and independent pharmacies alike Staffing shortages in clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups caused by the Great Resignation is having a similar impact on retail...
Bob McGonnagle, Publisher of CAP Today, Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award at 2023 Executive War College on Diagnostics, Clinical Laboratory, and Pathology Management
McGonnagle’s involvement with medical laboratory medicine spans five decades and 38 years of support for the nation’s anatomic pathologists and clinical laboratory professionals NEW ORLEANS—It was a standing ovation last week at the Executive War College on...