Despite decades of epidemiologic research demonstrating that Trichomonas vaginalis remains the most prevalent non-viral sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States1...
Mycoplasma genitalium is now an established cause of urethritis in men and pelvic inflammatory disease and cervicitis in women.1 While M. genitalium may not be as well understood...
Neisseria gonorrhoeae has developed resistance to all antimicrobials currently available,1,2 and there are only a few novel antibiotics in development.3-5 New approaches for combating...
There is now general agreement that a value-based model (quality of health outcomes per dollar expended), measured at the patient level, is the only way to achieve true healthcare...
There has been a great deal of hype for the last 20 years that microfluidics will revolutionize the use of the clinical lab by spawning hand-held, sensitive, and lower-cost diagnostics...
Norman Sharples CEO,COPAN Diagnostics, Inc. Professional: Twenty-two years in the present position asCo-Founder and CEO of COPAN. Education: John Moores University, Liverpool,...
In his 1972 novel Breakfast of Champions, the American writer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007), wrote, “I tend to think of human beings as huge, rubbery test tubes, with chemical...
The link between HPV and cancer40is the number of HPV strains.12is the number of HPV strains that can cause cancer.17,600women are affected by HPV-causing cancers each year in...
In recent years, the pathologist’s ability to make medical decisions in the best interests of patients has been adversely affected by faulty decisions in Medicare’s local coverage...
Wireless point-of-care systemThe new wireless BD Veritor Plus System gives healthcare providers and laboratorians objective, lab-quality immunoassay test results within minutes...
