FAST FACTS: Opioids in AmericaWhat do Americans say about opioid use in America, and their own experience with opioids? These statistics come from a study conducted by Lake Forest...
Earning CEUs:Please read Article I and Article II before taking the test. To earn CEUs, visit www.mlo-online.com under the CE Tests tab.Article I – Multistep algorithm testing...
Clostridium difficile represents a significant health threat around the world. In the United States, infections caused by C. difficile are now the most common type of healthcare...
Detection of autoantibodies in the blood of a patient helps to support the diagnosis of autoimmune disease. A challenging aspect is that autoantibodies often appear in a myriad...
Anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) testing is a cornerstone of autoimmune diagnostics. ANAs occur in a variety of autoimmune diseases, including systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases...
The detection of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) is of increasing importance to cervical cancer screening, and has been fundamental to the overall decrease in the rate...
Approximately seven percent of the United States population is affected by diabetes, and millions are at risk of developing the condition. One in three adults has prediabetes,...
Approximately seven percent of the United States population is affected by diabetes, and millions are at risk of developing the condition. One in three adults has prediabetes,...
Diabetes and its complications impose severe economic burden on individuals, families and the U.S. healthcare delivery system. The total costs of diagnosed diabetes due to both...
Capillary whole blood testing with point-of-care (POC) glucose meters in hospitalized patients and, particularly, in critically ill patients, remains a topic of interest in the...
The clinical laboratory is an inherently dangerous place. Laboratorians face a variety of dangers working in an environment that contains biohazards. Utilizing standard precautions...
It is difficult to overstate the tremendous role that medical lab tests play in the U.S. healthcare system. Hundreds of millions of tests are ordered each year. Physicians and...
