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Multimedia File Construction: Powerpoint on Steroids

Hi everyone! Its been eons since I posted.  I got lost in the throes of studying for boards and projects. This year one of my projects is centered on multimedia files for pathology resident education.   My first project was mainly podcasting–and the residents really liked it. I wrote a simple how-to for Mac and Windows [...]

Testing-testing: You want fries with that INR?

This is a superficial post on point-of-care (POC) testing touching on general background info. This topic and especially “Lab On A Chip (LOC)” has been addressed several times by Dr. Friedman in LabSoftNews (see links tab to the right). Over a dinner of delicious home-cooked food, my mother, in a perpetual exercise to understand the [...]

Testing-testing: do we give verbiage a bad name?

Like many people, I dislike the word “verbiage” , but just testing the waters for catchy blog titles. Directly influenced by my PGY year (4) I have been interested in report construction and the use of language to convey diagnostic findings, diagnostic uncertainty, and the interpretation of newer tests such as new molecular tests which [...]

Testing-testing: drug dosing based on SNPs?

Warfarin is one of the most commonly prescribed anticoagulants for prophylaxis and treatment of venous and arterial thromboembolic disorders or those at high risk for such disorders. Warfarin also has an FDA-issued “Black Box” warning for a high risk of fatal bleeding, most commonly from the gastrointestinal tract and in the brain. It acts by [...]

Testing-testing: CGH me baby!!

Testing-testing: CGH me baby: I want to know how I measure up to the reference. This is a very superficial post touching on an increasingly utilized testing methodology. Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) (also has been called “competitive”) is a method for scanning the entire genome for variations in DNA copy number which is not currently [...]

Testing-testing: Two SNPs for $200

The ASCP daily newsletter dated 10/12/07 had a short paragraph about home kit DNA diagnostics. Risk assessment for tailored treatment plans is a marketing strategy supporting the use of DIY (do-it-yourself) DNA swabs fishing for SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) deemed as high risk in some common diseases such as atrial fibrillation. The current prevalence of [...]

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