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What You Need to Know About Thyroid Cancer

Often, thyroid cancers are small and do not turn out to be serious. But if surgery takes place on a higher-risk tumor, monitoring levels of the thyroglobulin protein for 6 to 12 months may be necessary.

For a small gland at the base of the throat, the thyroid is much-discussed. It is a busy little gland, containing hormones that control the heart rate, body temperature, amount of calcium in the blood, and metabolism. This is your mighty thyroid.

The Five Most Unnecessary Lab Tests Ordered and Why

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.

'Detectives' Discover More About the Accident Factor in Opioid Overdoses

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

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