Medical Laboratory Observer’s Lab of the Year (LOY) award coincides with National Medical Laboratory Professional Week and allows medical laboratories to demonstrate their contributions to quality patient care. Submissions will be judged on measurable achievements in five areas. A panel of judges selected from MLO’s Editorial Advisory Board will review all submissions to select the winner and two runners-up, all of whom will be featured in the April 2024 issue of MLO.

All CLIA laboratories that have received either a paper or electronic CLIA certificate since September 26, 2023 are able to print their own CLIA certificate from the Quality Certification and Oversight Reports (QCOR) Clinical Laboratory Lookup Tool.

Drug overdose deaths rose markedly between January to June 2018 and July to December 2021 among 10- to 44-year-old girls and women who were pregnant or pregnant within the previous 12 months, according to a new study by researchers at National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health.

Revvity, Inc., announced the launch of its EONIS Q system, a CE-IVD declared platform enabling laboratories in countries that accept the CE marking to adopt molecular testing for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) in newborns.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) food safety alert regarding an outbreak of Salmonella infections has been updated.