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Students practice pipetting skills during the first laboratory medicine summer camp held by the Division of Medical Laboratory Sciences in the Department of Pathology at University of Utah Health.

Photo credit: Adriana Callahan

Kidneys perform critical functions within the body, and kidney impairment can lead to severe health consequences. ARUP’s adoption of a new equation to assess kidney function will enable better recognition and diagnosis of kidney disease in populations adversely affected by use of a previous equation.

Sandy Richman, MBA, C(ASCP), director of ARUP Healthcare Advisory Services, is among ARUP experts who contributed to a newly published article in Academic Pathology that adds to the understanding of what constitutes a successful laboratory stewardship program.

Tracy George, MD, ARUP president and chief scientific officer (left); Jonathan Genzen, MD, PhD, chief medical officer (center); and Jenna Rychert, PhD, medical director of operational informatics and microbial immunology (right), authored a letter to the editor of JAMA that was published on August 2, 2022.

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