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Hospital and clinical lab groups are pushing back on an interim final rule that makes reporting COVID-19 data a condition for participating in Medicare, claiming it would place undue financial burdens on their members. “These requirements are a heavy-handed regulatory approach that threatens to expel hospitals from the Medicare program…

Imagine a world in 2030 in which examining a human genome sequence in a research lab becomes as commonplace as conducting a DNA purification. In Nature, Eric D. Green, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) make this forecast and nine others in describing the…

Policy and educational interventions can improve compliance with point-of-care testing (POCT) quality standards, according to a study conducted by members of the Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA) in Canada. The investigators writing in Practical Laboratory Medicine discuss how they applied interventions such as meter notifications and policy updates to…

A novel single-tube multi-marker assay that quantifies six serum proteins exhibited high sensitivity and specificity in identifying preeclampsia (PE), besting a currently used immunoassay in prognostic yield. An article in The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine describes these findings.

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European investigators surveyed clinical labs on the topic of biomarker testing for heart failure (HF) and found that more labs are offering B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), with N-terminal pro BNP (NT-proBNP) reigning as the preferred biomarker. Labs also support adjusted cutoff values for age and gender and for patients with…