Published August 2010
Cover Story
Diseases without borders
Find out how to handle exotic diseases — leishmaniasis, chagas, dengue, and chikungunya — with this lab pocket guide.
Features
Clinical Issues
Hematology fascinates scientists — from students to antiquarians
Follow the history of hematology, say farewell to a former ASH president, and find out “what’s hot” in today’s marketplace in this overview.
Lab Management
Develop a competitive business strategy
Engage your lab employees in a success strategy, suggests a U.S. outreach specialist. What he explains can make your lab a stronger competitor.
Special Feature
What investors look for in a genomics venture
Market considerations and pricing play a large role in convincing investors to support the laboratory’s expansion into the genomics testing space.
Research on West Nile virus continues
Stalking zoonotic diseases
Education
Once is not enough: Volunteering abroad brings repeated rewards
From faith-based missions to government committees and organizations, there is a need for overseas commitments from American medical lab volunteers.
PLUS Rice students’ Sally Centrifuge could help diagnose anemia globally
Current Buzz
Optimize the lab’s test menu: How molecular diagnostics can impact the bottom line
The senior VP of a large molecular diagnostics testing facility describes how to appropriately add such tests to the menu as the lab expands.
Executive Snapshot
Lab safety is automatic at Greiner Bio-One
Hélène Restrepo, global product manager, preanalytics for Greiner Bio-One in Austria, knows that people worldwide have very similar needs but every country and region presents its individual perspectives, goals, and challenges.
Columns
From the Editor
The science of spin
By Carren Bersch
Letters to the editor
Readers respond
The
Observatory
News/Trends/Analysis
Management Q&A
Addressing management issues
Cranky employee creates chaos
Edited by C. Anne Pontius, MBA, CMPE, MT(ASCP)
Tips from the Clinical Experts
Liability and the Lab
Robert E. Mazer leads a team of legal experts to answer your questions
Washington Report
Meaningful use of health information
By Pamela Banning, MLS(ASCP)CM , PMP(PMI)