August 2013

August 2013—FDA approves Therascreen EGFR PCR kit as companion test for Gilotrif; A guide to using the microbiology lab; Leica Biosystems acquires Kreatech; Life Tech to collaborate with Merck Serono; MDxHealth teams with HistoGeneX

August 2013—Recreational physical activity and leisure time relative to colorectal cancer survival; Dietary and supplemental calcium intake and cardiovascular disease death; Investigational vaccine for preventing S.aureus infections after cardiothoracic surgery

August 2013—Endometrium as a primary site of origin of pelvic high-grade serous carcinoma in BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers; Criteria and pitfalls in diagnosis of lymphovascular invasion in prostatectomy specimens; An interobserver study of reproducibility in subtyping pulmonary adenocarcinomas; Value of PAX8, PAX2, claudin-4, and h-caldesmon in identifying peritoneal epithelioid mesotheliomas; Clinicopathologic study of cutaneous digital papillary adenocarcinoma;

August 2013—From pathologist to IT professional: a telling of five tales: Many people wear more than one hat in life, but rarely are they employed as both a hospital’s pathologist and information technology professional—consecutively or simultaneously. Only a select group has donned both chapeaux.

August 2013—What are considered best practices for tracking re-sult trending in the lab? We use hemoglobin running mean in our hematology department because it is built into the analyzer software. The chemistry department will have a difficult time applying moving averages without purchasing middleware.