Testing for fragile X–related disorders is performed using PCR-based methods and/or genomic Southern hybridization. These approaches are technically challenging because detection of alleles containing ...
When you bring a measurement instrument to a calibration lab, you assume that your instrument will come back within expected tolerances. But, how do you know? That's where laboratory proficiency tests ...
NORTHFIELD, Ill., June 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, the College of American Pathologists (CAP) released a list of its longest accredited laboratories in the United States. These 41 laboratories ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS or the Agency) announced on January 19, 2022 that it was delaying the publication of a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) final ...
New regulations under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) introduced updated proficiency testing (PT) and PT referral rules that are now in effect. Although the regulations became ...
CMS has issued a final rule that gives the agency greater discretion in enforcing the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, according to the Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act of 2012. Under ...
Public Health England (PHE) has published the results of a pilot survey on the proficiency testing (PT) of Shiga toxin producing E. coli. The Food and Environmental Proficiency Testing Unit (FEPTU) of ...
The United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine’s epidemiology laboratory is the Air Force’s sole clinical reference laboratory, and as such, is testing and processing samples of COVID-19 ...
Theranos, now valued at $9 billion, has claimed that its device, called Edison, can process 240 different lab tests detecting things like high cholesterol and cancer using just a few drops of blood.