Profession

Sitting Down With… Robert A. Weinberg, founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

We can argue about how many diagnostic errors happen each year, but we can’t deny that there are too many of them. And when one of those errors is ours, denial is especially inappropriate – but how many of us feel comfortable about a confessional with the patient? In the first installment of a two-part feature, we examine the difficulties around disclosure and communication of diagnostic errors.

Financial and personnel considerations for bringing mass spectrometry into the clinical laboratory

Laboratory professionals need to be involved in the total testing process to improve patient outcomes and avoid harm

Founder Elizabeth Holmes admits that direct-to-consumer testing company Theranos’ technology doesn’t work – and wasn’t often used

Classifying AML by genetic abnormalities may yield more accurate diagnosis, prognosis and treatment

Pathologists are encouraged to speak up and be counted, but it’s not always that easy…

Sitting Down With… Jennifer Grandis, Professor, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Associate Vice Chancellor – Clinical and Translational Research, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

Researcher and entrepreneur explains how she hopes to help others take a great scientific idea to reality

Intelligent incorporation of automated technologies into pathology laboratories will improve service provision by complementing – not replacing – a highly skilled workforce