Diagnosis: is the process of determining which disease or condition explains a person's symptoms and signs. It is most often referred to as diagnosis with the medical context being implicit.
Hyperthyroidism is an autoimmune disorder caused by the thyroid stimulating antibody (TSI), active against the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor, which stimulates the gland to synthe...
As one of the nation's most prevalent sexually transmitted infections, genital herpes represents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to clinicians, laboratorians and the patients they...
Diagnosis and management of CKD requires a spectrum of diagnostic tests to not only diagnose kidney function but also determine the status of other complications due to CKD, including creatin...
Until recently most of the phenotypic information on congenital endocrine disorders have relied on biochemical testing of steroids, biogenic amines and peptides but is now...
There is agreement among clinicians that laboratory analyses are indispensable for correct diagnosis of disease, therapy, and patient monitoring. It is evident that laboratory data should be...
Date: Nov 10, 2015 8AM Pacific, 11AM Eastern, 4PM GMT
Transporting smaller volumes of a sample, injecting less matrix, examining lower limits of detection and staying ahead of government r...
FREE to register and attend!
• Patients presenting with persistent abdominal pain and diarrhea are common in clinical practice. Evaluation of these patients, assumin...
Stage IV melanoma carried a 24 month life expectancy three short years ago. That is what T.J. Sharpe’s first oncologist told him he was facing, after a visit to the ER for a fever turne...
The assessment of pigmented lesions is a difficult area of dermatology and dermatopathology. Melanoma is the leading cause of cancer in woman age 25-29 years, yet it is also a leading c...
Endometrial adenoarcinoma is a common cause of gynecological cancer death in Europe and North America. The most dominant subtype, Endometrioid Endometrial Cancer (EEC) accounts for >80% of...
The management of prostate cancer (PCa) continues to evolve and does so at a rapid rate. Research and technological developments continue to refine our definitions and management of this comp...
The burgeoning area of molecular risk assessment (gene expression profiling and/or proteomic tests) in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer is rapidly illuminating how clinicians mi...
We have been developing methods to target drugs specifically to pathologic cells, thereby avoiding collateral toxicity to healthy cells. In the case of cancer, we have exploited up-regulation...
DATE: Sept 22, 2015TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00PM EDTHeart failure is a complex syndrome and affects over 5.1 Million Americans today with approximately 500,000 new heart failure cases each year. ...
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are powerful approaches for diagnosis and surveillance of emerging infections. Unbiased metagenomic NGS can detect the full spectrum of pathogen...
Respiratory viral infections remain a leading cause of medical visits and can contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality. Influenza, together with pneumonia, is the leading infectio...
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2015 Time: 10:00 AM PST, 12:00 PM CST, 1:00 PM ESTSerology testing continues to be an indispensable tool for the management of several disease states, especially tr...
When a patient presents with acute bloody diarrhea and tests negative for common causes such as campylobacter and salmonella, what's missing? Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) is increasin...
The practice of laboratory clinical microbiology is finally changing driven by the assimilation of newer technologies, like Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization - Time of Flight/Mass S...
Centrifugal elutriation is a mature technology that has been used for purification of cell subsets such as monocytes based upon cell density and size, without the need for labeling. The techn...
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder affecting 1% of the world’s population, leading to high human, social and economic burdens. Understanding how the interaction of gene and...
DATE: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 TIME: 09:00 PST, 11:00 CST, 12:00 EST, 16:00 GMTThe International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) has issued updated criteria for the diagnosis of multiple...
Contemporary serologic testing has revolutionized the field of celiac disease. Highly accurate serologic assays have shown the prevalence of celiac disease to be nearly 1:100 in many populat...
Female cancer patients in the reproductive years face a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures which pose teratogenic hazards to an unexpected pregnancy. Ionizing radiation, diagnos...
Hyperthyroidism is an autoimmune disorder caused by the thyroid stimulating antibody (TSI), active against the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor, which stimulates the gland to synthe...
As one of the nation's most prevalent sexually transmitted infections, genital herpes represents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to clinicians, laboratorians and the patients they...
Diagnosis and management of CKD requires a spectrum of diagnostic tests to not only diagnose kidney function but also determine the status of other complications due to CKD, including creatin...
Until recently most of the phenotypic information on congenital endocrine disorders have relied on biochemical testing of steroids, biogenic amines and peptides but is now...
There is agreement among clinicians that laboratory analyses are indispensable for correct diagnosis of disease, therapy, and patient monitoring. It is evident that laboratory data should be...
Date: Nov 10, 2015 8AM Pacific, 11AM Eastern, 4PM GMT
Transporting smaller volumes of a sample, injecting less matrix, examining lower limits of detection and staying ahead of government r...
FREE to register and attend!
• Patients presenting with persistent abdominal pain and diarrhea are common in clinical practice. Evaluation of these patients, assumin...
Stage IV melanoma carried a 24 month life expectancy three short years ago. That is what T.J. Sharpe’s first oncologist told him he was facing, after a visit to the ER for a fever turne...
The assessment of pigmented lesions is a difficult area of dermatology and dermatopathology. Melanoma is the leading cause of cancer in woman age 25-29 years, yet it is also a leading c...
Endometrial adenoarcinoma is a common cause of gynecological cancer death in Europe and North America. The most dominant subtype, Endometrioid Endometrial Cancer (EEC) accounts for >80% of...
The management of prostate cancer (PCa) continues to evolve and does so at a rapid rate. Research and technological developments continue to refine our definitions and management of this comp...
The burgeoning area of molecular risk assessment (gene expression profiling and/or proteomic tests) in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer is rapidly illuminating how clinicians mi...
We have been developing methods to target drugs specifically to pathologic cells, thereby avoiding collateral toxicity to healthy cells. In the case of cancer, we have exploited up-regulation...
DATE: Sept 22, 2015TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00PM EDTHeart failure is a complex syndrome and affects over 5.1 Million Americans today with approximately 500,000 new heart failure cases each year. ...
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are powerful approaches for diagnosis and surveillance of emerging infections. Unbiased metagenomic NGS can detect the full spectrum of pathogen...
Respiratory viral infections remain a leading cause of medical visits and can contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality. Influenza, together with pneumonia, is the leading infectio...
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2015 Time: 10:00 AM PST, 12:00 PM CST, 1:00 PM ESTSerology testing continues to be an indispensable tool for the management of several disease states, especially tr...
When a patient presents with acute bloody diarrhea and tests negative for common causes such as campylobacter and salmonella, what's missing? Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) is increasin...
The practice of laboratory clinical microbiology is finally changing driven by the assimilation of newer technologies, like Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization - Time of Flight/Mass S...
Centrifugal elutriation is a mature technology that has been used for purification of cell subsets such as monocytes based upon cell density and size, without the need for labeling. The techn...
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder affecting 1% of the world’s population, leading to high human, social and economic burdens. Understanding how the interaction of gene and...
DATE: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 TIME: 09:00 PST, 11:00 CST, 12:00 EST, 16:00 GMTThe International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) has issued updated criteria for the diagnosis of multiple...
Contemporary serologic testing has revolutionized the field of celiac disease. Highly accurate serologic assays have shown the prevalence of celiac disease to be nearly 1:100 in many populat...
Female cancer patients in the reproductive years face a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures which pose teratogenic hazards to an unexpected pregnancy. Ionizing radiation, diagnos...
Follow
