Clinical Medicine: is a field of medicine that deals primarily with the practice and study of medicine based on the direct examination of the patient. This is in contrast to other science fields that focus more on the theoretical and basics of medical science. In clinical medicine, medical practitioners assess patients in order to diagnose, treat, and prevent disease.
The advent of next generation sequencing has transformed the way we identify mutations with clinical implications. As the compendium of variants expands, gathering the most current and accura...
The integration of next-generation sequencing (NGS) tests into clinical laboratory practice across medical disciplines provides medically actionable data that in some cases are not otherwise...
Despite the fact that screening for many cancers is associated with net harm, healthcare consumers continue to be screened. PSA is the most commonly performed laboratory screening test for ca...
Many direct immunoassays in use today for testosterone analysis are little better than a guess at the low levels that are sometimes required. This has led many clinical societies to adv...
Pregnancy represents a time of rapid bodily change, which include physical proportions, physiology and responsibility. Arguably, nothing during these times changes more than the requirement a...
Many Americans have succumbed to the scare tactics of the dermatological community, and avoid sunlight for fear of skin cancer and premature aging. Therefore, most of us suffer from vitamin D...
In 2012, Consumers Reports and the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation launched the Choosing Wisely campaign. This initiative, which attracts media attention, assists physicians, n...
Cancer research diagnostic services in pathology laboratories worldwide have been negatively impacted by a lack of fresh-frozen tissue samples, the degradation of DNA and RNA in archival tiss...
DATE: November 6, 2017TIME: 08:00am PST, 11:00pm EST, 5:00pm CET Set-up of a PGS platform: the Swiss experienceDr. Murisier’s lab investigated the different technical...
DATE: November 1, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETOver 1.6 million people are diagnosed with sepsis in the U.S. each year1 and sepsis is the #1 cost of hospitalization (ove...
DATE: October 26, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETMass spectrometry has gained tremendous interests in clinical applications in the past decade to serve patients needs. W...
DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDTTesting for antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) has been a routine part of the evaluation of patients with a suspected connective tissue dis...
DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDTAs we learn more about the implications of genetic variation in 21st century medicine, the utilization of genotyping as a molecular t...
DATE: October 19, 2017TIME: 7:00 AM PDT, 10:00 AM EDT, 4:00 PM CETThis is the second topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’...
DATE: October 18, 2017TIME: 8:00 AM PST, 11:00 AM ESTOver the past decade, 25-OH vitamin D has become one of the most common assays requested by physicians.The increase in testing volum...
Acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is a rare sun-shielded melanoma subtype associated with worse survival than cutaneous melanoma (CM), a more common form of skin cancer linked to exposure to u...
The promise of precision and personalized medicine is rooted in accurate, highly sensitive, and specific disease biomarkers. This is particularly true for cancer-a disease characterized by ma...
The detection of CTCs has been used as useful biomarkers in prognosis and monitoring therapeutic response of patients with metastatic cancer. However, during the course of cancer therapy, CTC...
In order to expand the treatment options of cancers driven by oncogenic RAS, new cell surface targets need to be identified and characterized. Here, we describe mass spectrometry based phenot...
Pancreatic cancer is one of the “deadly” cancers, defined as those with a 5-year relative survival rate of less than 50%. Although ranking 12th in terms of incidence, it is...
More and more decisions will center on the ability to molecularly characterize a disease. So the molecular diagnostic laboratory will have a pivotal role. What does that look like? Will we be...
The first small molecule inhibitor of the molecular chaperone Heat Shock Protein 90 (HSP90) was identified more than 20 years ago. Upon determination of the drug binding site and clarificatio...
DATE: October 4th, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ET, 5:00PM (GMT+2)New HCV drugs are now approved which, when used in combination, yield very high rates of cure of HC...
The advent of next generation sequencing has transformed the way we identify mutations with clinical implications. As the compendium of variants expands, gathering the most current and accura...
The integration of next-generation sequencing (NGS) tests into clinical laboratory practice across medical disciplines provides medically actionable data that in some cases are not otherwise...
Despite the fact that screening for many cancers is associated with net harm, healthcare consumers continue to be screened. PSA is the most commonly performed laboratory screening test for ca...
Many direct immunoassays in use today for testosterone analysis are little better than a guess at the low levels that are sometimes required. This has led many clinical societies to adv...
Pregnancy represents a time of rapid bodily change, which include physical proportions, physiology and responsibility. Arguably, nothing during these times changes more than the requirement a...
Many Americans have succumbed to the scare tactics of the dermatological community, and avoid sunlight for fear of skin cancer and premature aging. Therefore, most of us suffer from vitamin D...
In 2012, Consumers Reports and the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation launched the Choosing Wisely campaign. This initiative, which attracts media attention, assists physicians, n...
Cancer research diagnostic services in pathology laboratories worldwide have been negatively impacted by a lack of fresh-frozen tissue samples, the degradation of DNA and RNA in archival tiss...
DATE: November 6, 2017TIME: 08:00am PST, 11:00pm EST, 5:00pm CET Set-up of a PGS platform: the Swiss experienceDr. Murisier’s lab investigated the different technical...
DATE: November 1, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETOver 1.6 million people are diagnosed with sepsis in the U.S. each year1 and sepsis is the #1 cost of hospitalization (ove...
DATE: October 26, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETMass spectrometry has gained tremendous interests in clinical applications in the past decade to serve patients needs. W...
DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDTTesting for antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) has been a routine part of the evaluation of patients with a suspected connective tissue dis...
DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDTAs we learn more about the implications of genetic variation in 21st century medicine, the utilization of genotyping as a molecular t...
DATE: October 19, 2017TIME: 7:00 AM PDT, 10:00 AM EDT, 4:00 PM CETThis is the second topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’...
DATE: October 18, 2017TIME: 8:00 AM PST, 11:00 AM ESTOver the past decade, 25-OH vitamin D has become one of the most common assays requested by physicians.The increase in testing volum...
Acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is a rare sun-shielded melanoma subtype associated with worse survival than cutaneous melanoma (CM), a more common form of skin cancer linked to exposure to u...
The promise of precision and personalized medicine is rooted in accurate, highly sensitive, and specific disease biomarkers. This is particularly true for cancer-a disease characterized by ma...
The detection of CTCs has been used as useful biomarkers in prognosis and monitoring therapeutic response of patients with metastatic cancer. However, during the course of cancer therapy, CTC...
In order to expand the treatment options of cancers driven by oncogenic RAS, new cell surface targets need to be identified and characterized. Here, we describe mass spectrometry based phenot...
Pancreatic cancer is one of the “deadly” cancers, defined as those with a 5-year relative survival rate of less than 50%. Although ranking 12th in terms of incidence, it is...
More and more decisions will center on the ability to molecularly characterize a disease. So the molecular diagnostic laboratory will have a pivotal role. What does that look like? Will we be...
The first small molecule inhibitor of the molecular chaperone Heat Shock Protein 90 (HSP90) was identified more than 20 years ago. Upon determination of the drug binding site and clarificatio...
DATE: October 4th, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ET, 5:00PM (GMT+2)New HCV drugs are now approved which, when used in combination, yield very high rates of cure of HC...
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