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Tony Smith, BS(HCM), MLT(ASCP), senior healthcare consultant at ARUP Laboratories, is the author of a newly published article in Clinical Laboratory News that offers guidelines for creating strong governance structures to ensure sustainability of laboratory stewardship programs.

Medical laboratory professionals such as this pair at work at ARUP are in high demand. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that nearly 26,000 more of these highly trained specialists will be needed each year through 2030.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its blood donation guidelines to remove a former ban related to concern about variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) transmission.

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

Jennifer (Jenna) Rychert, PhD, ARUP medical director of Operational Informatics and Microbial Immunology, and Jonathan Genzen, MD, PhD, ARUP chief medical officer, coauthored the report of the new study, “Laboratory-Developed Test Orders in an Academic Health System.”