Laboratory Science Africa

Lab Owner Arrested for Falsifying Results of Drug Tests Investigators are scrambling to determine how many parents may have lost jobs, custody of their children and more after the owner of an Alabama laboratory was arrested for altering the results of drug and paternity tests.

Mass Spectrometry-Based Tissue Imaging: The Next Frontier in Clinical Diagnostics? The diagnosis of tissue samples traditionally has been performed by anatomic pathologists using a combination of cellular staining and light microscopy. With these techniques, pathologists can characterize various tissue features including cell morphology, structure, and composition to subsequently....

Medical Laboratory Quality Control Reinvented?

How should quality control in laboratory medicine be organized today and in the future? The well-known international speakers will challenge current opinions and give you new insights into reinventing your own quality control principles.

Register now - International Congress on Quality in Laboratory Medicine 7-8 February 2019, Helsinki www.labqualitydays.com

Metagenomic sequencing at the epicenter of the Nigeria 2018 Lassa fever outbreak Lassa fever is a hemorrhagic viral disease endemic to West Africa. Usually, each year sees only a smattering of cases reported, but hospitalized patients risk a 15% chance of death. Responding to fears that a 10-fold surge in cases in Nigeria in 2018 signaled an incipient outbreak, Kafetzopoulou et ...

Microbiology Case Study: A 60 year old woman with endometrial cancer, uterine bleeding and no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department...

https://labmedicineblog.com/2019/01/10/microbiology-case-study-a-60-year-old-woman-with-endometrial-cancer-and-uterine-bleeding/

The lighter side of histopathology

French Scientists Find a Weak Spot in HIV-Infected Cells Researchers at the Institut Pasteur were able to selectively kill the cells where HIV hides from antiretroviral drugs, opening the way for a new form of HIV treatments. The reason why HIV comes back when a person stops taking antiretroviral ...

Making progress against the epidemic will require us to address, head-on, the drivers of this global epidemic. One of these drivers is drug-resistance, which happens when the TB bacteria outwit the drugs employed to fight the disease, making it harder to treat. Learn how CDC is addressing this ongoing threat: http://ow.ly/R5dn30n7cpB

SLMTA symposium ongoing in Abuja

Nominations for the ASLM2018 Awards Extended to 30 November

ASLM2018 Registration Extended!