Dr. Daly Discusses…CK-MB usage
Listen to Dr. John Daly, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for COLA discuss the usage of CK-MB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oa3RCOvpco...
Direct To Consumer Laboratory Testing Survey
Direct-to-consumer laboratory (DTC laboratory)testing permits consumers to order laboratory tests directly from a clinical laboratory without necessarily having to work with their healthcare provider. Currently...
WHAT REALLY HAPPENS WHEN I GET A #FLU VACCINE?
The article below was written by Rodney E. Rohde. Ph.D for InfectionControl.tips and has been re-published here with permission.
Abstract Seasonal flu is a serious, highly contagious respira...
Zika Virus Testing in Pregnant Women: New CDC Recommendations
We have previously blogged about testing for Zika virus in pregnant women here and here. But testing recommendations continue to evolve. As a result of increasing knowledge about the Zi...
Dr. Daly Discusses…Tuberculosis
Listen to Dr. John Daly, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for COLA to discuss multi and extensive drug-resistant tuberculosis and the role of laboratories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0fxLq2dYlE...
Improving Error Reporting in Healthcare
Brandy Gunsolus has witnessed diagnostic errors as a patient as well as a professional. A decade ago, she started experiencing headaches, a rash – and repeated miscarriages. She went to different specialists...
Reformation of the Payment and Care Delivery Environment to Improve the Diagnostic Process
Setting the stage: 1 in 10 diagnoses are incorrect.1
Diagnostic error accounts for 40,000-80,000 US deaths annually – somewhere between breast cancer and diabetes.1
Chances are we will all experience...
Dr. Daly Discusses… Hand Hygiene
Listen to Dr. John Daly, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for COLA to discuss laboratory procedures for hand hygiene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHT1aFqbK1M...
The ABCs of Hepatitis
May is Hepatitis Awareness Month in the United States, and the CDC is hoping to bring attention to the importance of medical screening for the most common forms of viral hepatitis: Hepatitis A (HAV), which is g...
Dr. Daly Discusses… Patient And Specimen Misidentification
Dr. Daly Discussess Patient And Specimen Misidentification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BO0lFTyKOo...