May 15, 2017 |
All-Star Puzzle-Solvers: Keeping a Major Lab’s Information System in Shape A breast cancer survivor is shown here; a wide range of cancers are tested at ARUP. Tests and results from the 3,000 plus tests offered here move efficiently through the more than 70 labs using a technical lab information system. |
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April 26, 2017 |
'Detectives' Discover More About the Accident Factor in Opioid Overdoses Gwen McMillin, PhD, ARUP Laboratories, finds drug backstories: how pharmaceuticals and other substances metabolize in patients’ bodies. |
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April 18, 2017 |
Is Treating Your Pain Depleting Your Sex Hormones? ARUP Scientist Julie Ray, PhD, investigated the effects of certain pain medications on men and women’s hormonal levels. New Study Shows Pain Medications’ Endocrinologic Side Effects |
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April 11, 2017 |
Robot Automates Major Lab’s Test in Unexpected Way A new machine/robot called the Data Matrix Scanner is going to automate a lab’s procedures to test for cholesterol particles at high volume and without the messy turns and pitches of human error. This is no ordinary solution—ARUP Laboratories needed a unique fix to move a test in-house, photograph in one shot 96 test tubes on a tray with their accompanying tiny barcodes, and process 3,000 test tubes a month while tracking the number and ID for each. So lab supervisors and in-house |
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April 4, 2017 | ARUP has someone working the evening or graveyard shift every day to keep up with the steady flow of incoming specimens and ensure rapid testing turnaround times. |
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March 28, 2017 |
Breathing All Night Long: Cystic Fibrosis and Increasing Treatable Cases Even when there is no family history of CF, a person can be a carrier without knowing it. Identifying disease-causing mutations by carrier testing may people find out they are a carrier of CF. |