ASCP: “Microbial flora in restaurant lemon slices” on “The Today Show”

ASCP News reports:

Anne LaGrange Loving, M(ASCP), was a guest on NBC’s “The Today Show,” on Wednesday, February 27, 2008. Anne discussed her recent research report entitled: “Microbial Flora on Restaurant Beverage Lemon Slices.”

WHO Laboratory Biosafety Manual

The screenshot below links to a 1.27 MB pdf file of the 3rd ed. of the WHO Laboratory Biosafety Manual (2004):

LEAN clinical laboratory

Daily Kaizen posted recently about “a tour of a LEAN-inspired clinical laboratory,” the regional laboratory at Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic, with lots of photos included in the post.

For further reading: Leanblog post on “A Lean Lab Example”

“Adapting Lean management and Six Sigma techniques in the clinical lab” from Clinical Lab Products Feb 2006

“Lean labs reduce blunders” from Clinical Lab Products Feb 2007

“Using LEAN thinking in staffing a new clinical laboratory” at Westgard.com (5Mb pdf); interview with the author, Hope Grieg

‘Atlas of Human Malaria’ at FreeBooks4Doctors

FreeBooks4Doctors lists over 650 books with free full text available online.  

One of the recent additions is the ‘Atlas of Human Malaria’ (also in Italian).

“Labs Are Vital” Scholarship Contest deadline approaching

March 7, 2008 is the deadline for entries in the “Labs Are Vital” Scholarship Contest. For more details click here or on the screenshot below.

CDC report – “Public Health Preparedness: Mobilizing State by State”

CDC’s Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (COTPER) has released its inaugural report on public health emergency preparedness. The report, Public Health Preparedness: Mobilizing State by State, highlights the progress that has been made in state and local preparedness and response, identifies preparedness challenges facing public health departments, and outlines CDC’s efforts to address those challenges. Designed to increase accountability regarding the country’s investment in preparedness activities, the report presents national data as well as state-specific snapshots for all 50 states and four directly funded localities: Chicago; Los Angeles County; New York City; and Washington, DC.

CIDRAP: CDC says state preparedness much improved since 2001

separationsNOW.com, spectroscopyNOW.com – electrophoresis, gas chromatography, HPLC, NMR, and more!

separationsNOW.com is a free online resource from John Wiley & Sons Ltd., with lots of information to explore on sample preparation, electrophoresis, gas chromatography, HPLC, ion chromatography, proteomics and genomics, detectors, and informatics.

Each section has an ezine, news, education, and links. Click on “links” and then “education” to find tutorials listed on each topic. A free site registration gives access to more resources. Click on the image below to go to a page of tutorials on electrophoresis.

spectroscopyNOW.com is a sister site with resources for various kinds of spectroscopy – atomic, infrared, MRI, mass spectrometry, NMR, Raman, ultraviolet, X-Ray, chemometrics & informatics, and proteomics.

Nominate a lab or laboratory professional!

Tomorrow – Feb 20, 2008 – is the deadline for nominations for the 2008 ADVANCE Laboratory and Laboratory Professional of the Year awards. Click here or on the image below for more information.

Molecular diagnostics links from UNC

The University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, has a nice collection of links for molecular diagnostics, including many tutorials.

Antimicrobial resistance resources

• FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine – Animation of Antimicrobial Resistance (9 min)
• MicrobeLibrary animation of Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion test
• Multi-level Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Educational Resources (MASTER) at CDC -  including an Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing online course module