Theresa Kinard, MD, knew little about phosphatidylethanol (PEth), a blood-based biomarker of alcohol use, when she noticed that patients who adamantly denied drinking were testing positive in their liver pretransplant evaluations.

When it comes to what diseases are predicted to circulate and when, expect a respiratory virus season much like last year’s, and the year before that. As for the severity? That’s anybody’s guess.

Eric Huang, MD, PhD, is the first to admit that when it came time to switch to primary HPV screening, his laboratory at the University of Washington faced fewer obstacles than most.

As the COVID-19 federal public health emergency drew to a close in mid-May, industry experts explained what will and won’t change for the laboratory and weighed the fallout from the drop-off in SARS-CoV-2 testing.

With the Food and Drug Administration approval in May of two HPV self-collection devices for use in clinic settings, physicians in and out of the laboratory are optimistic the approach can reach underscreened patients, even if FDA approval is only a first step.

With patient access to pathology reports now common via online portals, the question some have asked is what can be done to make them easier for patients to understand. “They have access to the report. They are reading their report,” says Jason Wasserman, MD, PhD…

When it comes to detecting cervical precancer (CIN3), p16/Ki-67 dual stain testing cuts down on the number of colposcopies compared with using Pap cytology to triage HPV-positive patients. “Using cytology you need to do about 32 colposcopies…”

Higher wages help to fill open positions, when they can be offered, but in a labor market that’s as tight as ever, they’re often just a start. That’s why many laboratories are casting wider nets, though the hiring solutions tend to be long term.

When it comes to next-generation sequencing, don’t count out community hospital labs, especially as black-box solutions come on the market. That’s the hope of members of an International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC)…

Whirlwind timelines, novel problems, and a never-ending workload: On the anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, pathology informatics leaders David S. McClintock, MD, and Christopher Williams, MD, reflected on the year’s onslaught of challenges.

Cisgender male reference intervals can be used to interpret testosterone concentrations in transgender and nonbinary adults on masculinizing therapy, but reference intervals specific to the transmasculine population should be used to evaluate estradiol…

At NYU Langone Health, pathologists and others typically not seen out front in the fight against COVID-19 became the bridge between families and the floors. When Katherine A. Hochman, MD, associate chair for quality in the Department of Medicine at NYU…