Cover Story

Fetal lung maturity testing: what labs need to know now
By David Grenache, PhD, DABCC, FACB

PLUS  Improving diagnosis and clinical management of pre-eclampsia
By Louise Kenny, MBChB (hons), MRCOG PhD

PLUS  Going “foreword”: the new CLSI guidelines

PLUS  Prenatal and newborn screening: more new guidelines from CLSI

Features

Clinical Issues

Challenges in hemoglobinopathy testing
By Thomas Burgess, PhD, DABCC, FACB

Future Buzz

High multiplex quantitative PCR: what is needed right now
By Andrew T. Bond, PhD

Special Feature

Vitamin D: how much is enough, too much, or too little?
Up to 75 percent of the world’s population is vitamin D deficient.
By Beth A. Schodin, PhD

PLUS  Vitamin D status assessment: a clinical perspective
By Gregory A. Plotnikoff, MD, MTS, FACP

Education and Training

Connecting your LIS and EHR
By Jim Kasoff

PLUS  Investing in EMR interfaces for outreach growth
By William Seay

PLUS  The middleware revolution: bridging automation gaps in laboratory processes
By Bill Harten, BS, MS

Lab Management

The coming “sepsis boom...”
and the available but underutilized diagnostic tools that could avert it
By Mark H. Oltermann, MD

Executive Snapshot

Accumetrics looks to the future of platelet function analysis
By Alan Lenhoff, Editor

Departments

From the Editor

Prenatal testing in the news
By Alan Lenhoff

The Observatory

News/Trends/Analysis

Columns

Management Q&A

Issues to consider when hiring
By Alan Lenhoff, Editor

Washington Report

Giving patients direct access to their test results
By Jon R. Cohen, MD

Product Focus

Product Focus on Pipetting