Oct 17, 2011 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
New cancer test may be as easy as a home-use pregnancy test Early detection of certain types of cancer may eventually become as easy as taking a home pregnancy test. That’s the prediction of researchers who are developing a non-invasive early diagnostic test for gastric cancer that would not require a pathologist to assess a tissue specimen. Instead, this test detects biomarkers in the patient’s urine. Surgical pathologists will recognize the potential of this discovery to create new tools...
Mar 7, 2011 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
Some hospitals are paid as much as four times other hospitals in the same city for the same procedure Across the clinical pathology laboratory testing industry, the use of deeply-discounted prices for medical laboratory tests has always been a flash point. But few consumers see the real price of the clinical laboratory test, and even many healthcare policy experts pay little attention to how clinical laboratories and pathology groups will set prices for laboratory tests. That is not true of...