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Laboratory Medicine
Laboratory Medicine: is where clinical tests are carried out to obtain information about the health of a patient to aid in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
SEP 20, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: September 20 2018TIME: 09:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Harnessing the immune system has emerged as a powerful therapeutic strategy in oncology. However, the limited...
SEP 20, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: September 20 2018TIME: 11:00am EDT, 5:00pm CEST Cardiovascular disease due to atherosclerosis is the leading cause of disease and mortality worldwide. So-call...
SEP 20, 2018 | 1:00 AM
DATE: September 20, 2018TIME: 10:00am CEST, 4:00pm CST Cardiovascular disease due to atherosclerosis is the leading cause of disease and mortality worldwide. So-called “...
SEP 19, 2018 | 6:00 AM
DATE: September 19,2018TIME: 06:00am PDT, 09:00am EDT Statistical Quality Control is well established as a key assurance technique for medical laboratories. In chemistry and...
SEP 18, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: September 18, 2018TIME: 9:00AM PDTLC-MS/MS has been increasingly adopted by clinical laboratories due to the potential it has for increased sensitivity and specificity over m...
SEP 18, 2018 | 7:00 AM
DATE: September 18, 2018TIME: 07:00am PDT, 2:00pm GMT Next Generation Sequencing has become an essential tool in clinical diagnostic laboratories, however this technolo...
SEP 17, 2018 | 8:00 PM
Current methods for in vitro diagnosis of autoimmune diseases (ADs) are mainly based on the detection of circulating autoantibodies using specific AD autoantigens. A high-quality recombinant...
SEP 12, 2018 | 1:30 PM
Reducing the impact of infectious diseases is becoming increasingly vital as the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues to rise, threatening the effective prevention and treat...
SEP 12, 2018 | 10:30 AM
The ongoing research and scientific debate on pathophysiology, classification, nomenclature and diagnosis of antiphospholipid syndrome illustrates the complexity of cellular membranes, their...
SEP 12, 2018 | 9:00 AM
Whooping cough caused by Bordetella infection has resurged in recent years. Dr. Karissa Culbreath will discuss the clinical presentation of Bordetella infection and its public health im...
SEP 12, 2018 | 7:30 AM
There are new generations of comprehensive multiplex molecular panels available for infectious diseases syndromic diagnostics. They are able to rapidly detect and identify the most common pat...
SEP 12, 2018 | 6:00 AM
The WHO has set ambitious targets for eliminating TB in low-incidence countries such as the US and Canada. While it’s true that the majority of TB cases in these settings arise from rea...
SEP 05, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: September 5, 2018TIME: 8:00AM PDTA New Paradigm for Buprenorphine TestingBuprenorphine (BUP) is a partial mu-agonist synthetic opioid, an important drug for treating opio...
AUG 08, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: August 8, 2018TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ETAntiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune acquired thrombophilic disorder which is diagnosed based on clinical and labor...
AUG 07, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: August 7, 2018TIME: 08:00AM PDT, 11:00AM EDTWe are currently at an exciting precipice in clinical oncology management, where an increased rate of biomarker identification is drivi...
JUL 19, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: July 19, 2018TIME: 09:00am PDT Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a deadly disease with a 5 year-survival rate of approximately 6%. Despite recent...
JUN 29, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: June 29, 2018TIME: 8:00AM PDTMeasurement of these metabolites represents the digital readout of health. A key aspect of metabolomics is the utilization of high resolu...
JUN 21, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Advances in DNA sequencing, based upon massively parallel sequencing, has resulted in dramatic advances in DNA sequence output in the past few years. It is now possible to generate terrabases...
