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Ramifications From The “H2N2 Virus Affair”
CEO SUMMARY: Here’s the story, with new details, about how a patient sample, cross-contaminated with a “deadly” strain of influenza virus from a proficiency test kit, triggered alarm bells at the highest levels of public health in Canada, the United States, and the World Health Orga…
“April 18, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
This may be one of the laboratory industry’s biggest “oops” ever! As part of a laboratory proficiency testing pro- gram, 4,000 laboratories in 18 countries were sent live samples of the H2N2 flu virus. In 1957, H2N2 is believed to have caused between one and four million deaths. Last week, the …
National Lab Standards Coming For Patient Safety
CEO SUMMARY: Because lab test data plays such an important role in medical decision-making, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a national effort to evaluate the quality of clinical and public health laboratories. In forming a Quality Institute, the goal is t…
Oldest “Working” Pathologist Dies at 104 on March 9
WORKING EIGHT-HOUR DAYS until a few weeks before his death on March 9, pathologist F. William Sunderman, M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D., lived a remarkable life. During his 104-year life, Dr. Sunderman played a key role in founding the Pennsylvania Association of Clinical Pathologists in 1946 a…
Docs’ In-Office Testing Showing Mixed Trends
CEO SUMMARY: Despite the burdens of CLIA certification and reduced reimbursement for lab tests, many medical practice experts are advising doctors to expand in-office testing. However, diagnostic technologies for near-patient testing are still not robust enough to support this trend. Earl…
PennState Geisinger Building “ Distributed Lab ” Around POCT
CEO SUMMARY: Here’s an integrated healthcare system that’s pushing its clinical laboratory across traditional barriers between physician’s office and clinical lab. At PennState Geisinger Healthcare, a fast-growing health system located in rural Pennsylvania, point-of-care testing is…
Washington’s PacLab Network Succeeds With Standardization
PART TWO OF TWO PARTS CEO SUMMARY: In part one of this two-part series, we looked at how changes to healthcare in the state of Washington brought about the creation of PacLab Network Laboratories. In this concluding installment, we explore how PacLab is standardizing lab…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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