July 26, 2016 | The difference between a blood sample and a lung tissue sample is significant. Until recently, this was not a choice for patients suspected of having a rare form of pulmonary hypertension. |
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July 18, 2016 |
Should We Screen for Prostate Cancer? Cancer screening is like fencing in an animal: the goal is to catch the cancer/animal in order to control it. The complicating factor is that cancers turn out to be highly variable in their behavior. Imagine the slow growing ones as turtles. Fencing in a turtle will create the illusion that you’ve controlled it (“the cancer is cured!”), but in fact that turtle was never going to go anywhere in the first place. |
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July 7, 2016 | ARUP Laboratories announced that Edgar Braendle, MD, PhD, has been named CEO, effective August 16, 2016. |
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July 6, 2016 |
We Will Build It: A Look inside ARUP’s In-House Machine Shop ARUP’s machine shop staff. From left to right: Dan Valdez, Shane Spensko, and Chance Spensko. Deep in the heart of ARUP’s central facility is a room you won’t find in most labs. The technicians wear heavy leather aprons rather than lab coats; instead of specimen samples the shelves are filled with bars of steel; and the hum of high-tech mills and lathes cutting raw material fills the air. |
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June 14, 2016 |
The Spring Olympics? ARUP Seizes a Gold and Bronze in National Pipetting Challenge The top five, highest scoring, participants in the national 2016 Pipetting Challenge include Elaine Yang (0.09%), Laurie Henderson (0.06), Zachary Wilkey (0.10%), Samantha Beyer (0.07%), and (not pictured) Sonia La’ulu (0.09%). |
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June 9, 2016 |
Avoiding Financial Waste: UM Strategies in the Pre- and Post-Analytic Stages A recent study showed that an estimated 30% of all laboratory tests run across the healthcare continuum were unnecessary. That means roughly 2.1 billion unnecessary lab tests are performed each year. |