While most ticks don't carry diseases and most tick bites don't cause serious health problems, taking measures to avoid tick encounters should be taken seriously.
ARUP Consult Editorial Board members include (left to right): Fred Strathmann, Eszter Lazar-Molnar, Brian Jackson, Bo Hong, Alan Brown, and Reha Toydemir.
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.
Cancer screening is like fencing in an animal: the goal is to catch the cancer/animal in order to control it.
ARUP Laboratories announced that Edgar Braendle, MD, PhD, has been named CEO, effective August 16, 2016.
ARUP’s machine shop staff. From left to right: Dan Valdez, Shane Spensko, and Chance Spensko.
The top five, highest scoring, participants in the national 2016 Pipetting Challenge include Elaine Yang (0.09%), Laurie Henderson (0.06), Zachary Wilkey (
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.
ARUP Laboratories Medical Director Robert Schlaberg, MD, Dr Med, MPH, will be the Principal Investigator for a project to help decrease the high mortality rate of children with infectious diseases.
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Doctors need easy access to testing guidance, nudges toward evidence-based testing, and professional feedback when they deviate from recommended patterns.
Diagnostic testing isn’t the only service ARUP provides worldwide; it has built a growing educational resource, specifically designed for students in the medical laboratory sciences.