Top 5 Clinical Trials Shaping Medicine in 2025
From precision oncology to gene editing, these standout trials could redefine how to diagnose and treat rare diseases and cancer
Diagnostic Testing and Emerging Technologies
Keeps You Up-to-Date on New Diagnostic Tests, Testing Trends and Opportunities, and Emerging Test Technologies
Common Blood Draw Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Hemolysis presents a risk when sample collection is done improperly
FDA Approves Teal Wand as First At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening
Teal Health, the company manufacturing and distributing the test, says thousands of women are already on a waiting list for the assay
Bringing Clinical Mass Spectrometry into Routine Medical Laboratory Testing
Roche experts discuss the company’s recently launched automated solution and how it will bring mass spec to more patients
Diagnostics Pipeline: Roche’s New Cobas Liat Panel Can Test for Multiple STIs Simultaneously
The PCR-driven test provides results in about 20 minutes in non-laboratory settings
Labcorp, Quest, and ARUP Develop Bird Flu Tests with CDC Help
The assays were developed with the CDC as part of recent trend of public-private partnerships to improve pandemic preparedness
Implementing Accessible On-Demand Testing: A Lab Director’s Experience
On-demand testing doesn’t require registration, billing, or scheduling, keeping costs low while collecting “real” dollars upfront
Patients at the Point of Care
At-home testing is giving patients an increasingly active role in managing their health—but what does this trend mean for labs?
Choosing and Using Wisely
The value of lab test utilization management—and the ASCP’s latest best practice recommendations for effective test utilization
Assessing At-Home Testing Accuracy
Patients desire direct-to-consumer testing, but are the results this testing provides accurate and reliable?
Diagnostics Pipeline: 2024 Trends in FDA Approvals
In vitro diagnostic products approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2024 show a continued move toward rapid and point-of-care tests
A Closer Lab-Patient Connection
Patient access to data from the clinical lab is increasing. What does this mean for those generating it?
New and Improved: The Latest Research in Disease Screening
New ideas and innovations look beyond conventional screening options to facilitate improved disease diagnosis and patient outcomes
