Category: Lab Management

Lab Management

House Committee Approves $5 Million to Improve Pediatric Lab Testing

The funding, allocated to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, aims to establish more accurate normal ranges for children’s medical results.

Lab Management

Agilent Launches New Trace Element Analysis System for Laboratories

The new triple quadrupole mass spectrometry system aims to increase sample throughput and simplify interference removal.

Lab Management

FDA Grants Breakthrough Status to Blood Test to Distinguish Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

The mRNA-based test aims to provide objective data to help clinicians distinguish between psychiatric conditions that often share symptoms.

Accreditation

Cleveland Diagnostics Receives ISO Certification, Advancing Expansion for Prostate Cancer Test

Cleveland Diagnostics has received ISO 13485:2016 certification for its IsoPSA Assay, supporting scaled U.S. commercialization following recent FDA approval for prostate cancer risk assessment.

Compliance

CMS Opens Data Collection Module for Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule Reporting

Applicable laboratories are required to report information to CMS for each clinical diagnostic laboratory test that the laboratory furnishes.

Proficiency Testing

Managing Reagent Variation

Lot-to-lot reagent inconsistencies can have significant effects on patient test results.

Company News

Co-Diagnostics Develops Strategy for Ebola Bundibugyo Virus Assay

Co-Diagnostics has completed its assay development strategy for Bundibugyo virus, following the WHO’s emergency declaration and CDC’s updated traveler screening measures amid ongoing Ebola outbreaks in the DRC and Uganda.

Resource Center

Innovative Hemostasis Solutions by Sysmex: Routine & Specialty Testing

Position your laboratory for the future of hemostasis testing This sponsored white paper explores how advances in automation, workflow optimization, and intelligent coagulation analysis are helping laboratories improve...