May 2015 Issue of The Pathologist

Countries should be uniting against “wasteful medical practices” and “harmful tests”. But how realistic is change?

The measles virus may erase immune memory, leaving patients vulnerable to other childhood infections for up to three years

Current tests for nephropathy may not be good enough; but research could yield new options for effective diagnosis

The first HIV home testing kit to receive a CE mark may help reduce the number of patients diagnosed late or not at all

Health worker’s ocular fluid tests positive for Ebola months after virus became undetectable in blood

A better understanding of melanoma could lead to new strategies for tackling therapy resistance

Bioinformatics gets a boost from educational and training initiatives

Preanalytical accuracy in surgical pathology targeted by new recommendations

Will gene expression be the key to mass pediatric screening?

The preanalytical phase is subject to more error than any other part of the testing cycle – what can we do to improve it?

The views of the members of the EFLM Working Group for Preanalytical Phase

The EFLM President weighs in on preanalytical phase errors and what can be done about them.

In the era of personalized medicine, the use of reference materials is more important now than ever.

Helpings labs to understand their role in clinical care, and to impact and improve patient outcomes.

Why it is vital to define critical values and establish standard procedures for reporting them.

A blood test to quickly decide if a viral or bacterial infection is the culprit causing disease could aid the quest to cut down on antibiotic misuse.

The next step in cancer research may be the use of bioinformatics to analyze large amounts of RNA

Curiosity’s road to pathology, zebrafish genetics, genomics and imaging

We Sit Down With George Kontogeorgos, President-Elect of the International Academy of Pathology.