April 2026—It’s hard to mount an argument against the Great Plains. Nor is there much reason to. But drive across eastern Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, or the Dakotas, and it is a bona fide thrill to arrive in Wyoming’s northwest corner and see the Grand Tetons rising up in spectacular fashion.
April 2026—Artificial intelligence, circulating tumor DNA, trial data: ASCO 2026 next month in Chicago will feature platforms, technologies, and therapeutic approaches once considered future concepts in cancer diagnosis and care. What comes now is less flashy than a breakthrough advance perhaps, but no less significant. As Janice Lu, MD, PhD, puts it, “The real work now is disciplined clinical translation: validation, collaboration, and implementation, in ways that truly improve patient care.”
April 2026—Revisions and additions to the CAP transfusion medicine accreditation checklist released last year were made to safeguard patients, donors, and the blood bank inventory.
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April 2026—Thermo Fisher Scientific’s SwiftArrayStudio microarray analyzer was developed in response to customer needs for simpler workflows, more consistent turnaround times, and lower operational burden in genomics labs.
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February 2026—Prepared with expert insight from Anil Parwani, MD, PhD; Scott Hammond; and Melinda Schumacher, MD, Grundium’s white paper describes, from a pathologist’s perspective, how compact WSI systems can shorten consult turnaround times and reduce variability, improve access to subspecialty review without adding travel or courier burden, enhance community pathologists’ professional satisfaction and confidence, support scalable, secure, and validated workflows and lay the foundation for AI and advanced analytics as digital adoption grows. Download the white paper here.
April 2026—Pathologists are physicians who play a crucial role in patient care, providing accurate diagnoses and guiding treatment decisions. Despite often working behind the scenes, pathologists are essential to modern medicine, contributing to advancements in precision medicine and molecular diagnostics.
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April 2026—Laboratory and pathology billing face challenges from reimbursement threats, downcoding, denials, and prior authorizations.
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April 2026—Pathologists are physicians who play a crucial role in patient care, providing accurate diagnoses and guiding treatment decisions. Despite often working behind the scenes, pathologists are essential to modern medicine, contributing to advancements in precision medicine and molecular diagnostics.
March 2026—Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease, including the FDA-approved Lumipulse G pTau 217/β-Amyloid 1-42 and Elecsys pTau181 tests, are revolutionizing diagnosis and treatment. These less invasive tests offer earlier detection, improved accessibility, and potential for broader patient reach.
March 2026—An international panel of experts recommended including the determination of intrathecal kappa free light chain (κ-FLC) synthesis in the next revision of MS diagnostic criteria. The κ-FLC index, easily determined by nephelometry and turbidimetry, is a fast, cost-effective, and quantitative biomarker with high diagnostic value for MS. It also predicts future inflammatory disease activity and disability progression, making it a valuable prognostic tool.
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April 2026—The Food and Drug Administration has granted breakthrough device designation to the NG-Test Candida auris and NG-Test Acineto-5 assays, which are developed and manufactured in France by NG Biotech and distributed exclusively in the United States by Hardy Diagnostics.