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ARUP Consult^®, a free source of laboratory testing information for clinicians, released several new and updated resources in November.

The condition of venous thromboembolism, illustrated here, can be treated using direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) such as direct factor Xa inhibitors. ARUP’s new chromogenic assays can be used to help assess treatment efficacy.

ARUP Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Genzen, MD, PhD (left), and Lauren Pearson, DO, MPH, chief medical officer of ARUP at University of Utah Health, are coauthors of a newly published JAMA Research Letter that summarizes results of a survey of clinical labs to evaluate adoption of a new equation to assess kidney function based on creatinine in patient serum. The new equation eliminates adjustment factors for race.

Pinar Bayrak-Toydemir, MD, PhD, FACMG (left), and Rong Mao, MD, FACMG (right), medical directors of Molecular Genetics and Genomics, lend their expertise to the diagnosis of rare childhood disorders through the Utah NeoSeq Project.

Mounting evidence suggests that kratom may lead to neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) in infants exposed to the substance in utero.