To My Lab Valentine

Happy Valentine´s Day to all scientists!


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The World's Best Photos of clostridium and microbiology

Source: Hivermind

Webinar: Urine sediment microscopy

Webinar 11 January 2017: Comparing automated microscopy data to manual review

In this webinar, Dr. Michael Samoszuk will discuss the correlation between images of urine sediment particles captured on the iRICELL3000 and images viewed manually under the microscope using actual patient samples. Attendees will learn how these images compare and how automated microscopy helps to reduce user subjectivity in microscopy by standardizing the process.

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Webinar: Comparing Automated Microscopy Data to Manual Review

Source: Beckman Coulter, Inc.

Medical laboratory professionals 2017

Happy New Year - Feliz 2017
by Sigrid Maria

Happy New Year 2017

I wish a beautiful and successful New Year 2017 to all medical laboratory professionals.

Chemistry Xmas tree

A perfect Christmas tree for the laboratory scientists
by Sigrid Maria

Rudolf The Red Cell

Reindeer shaped erythrocyte in peripheral blood smear

Image by Kelly Pifer via Lab Humor

Merry QRS-T mas and a P new year

How laboratorians celebrate Christmas <3


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Christmas Crewneck Sweater

Sourse: Etsy via ShopNamuri

The Best Christmas Gift

Some of the best Christmas gifts fit in stockings and babies born around the holidays are no exception. That's why babies born at Magee-Women's Hospital at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center get special stockings if they're in the hospital on Christmas Day.

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Holiday Newborns Go Home in Christmas Stockings 2014

Source: ABC News

Christmas math

Merry Xmas

Petri plate art for Christmas

Happy Christmas by Debashree Samal Lakhera‎

Blood Tube Tree

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all medical laboratory professionals.

Source: Facebook via Monica Cociasu‎

International Congress on Quality in Laboratory Medicine 2017

Welcome to International Congress on Quality in Laboratory Medicine!
9-10 February 2017 Helsinki

International Congress on Quality in Laboratory Medicine is an annual congress for clinical laboratory and quality management professionals organised by Labquality Ltd. Congress draws annually approximately 1,000 visitors to Helsinki.

The 2017 Congress themes are: Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine (EBLM) and Impact of Total Quality Management (TQM)

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www.labqualitydays.com


Source: Youtube via Labquality

Petri Plate Raindeer

Petri dish art for the holiday season
by Cristian Michael Fernandez Galvez

Happy Holidays from Microbiology Lab

Amazing bacterial Christmas tree by Maria Anne‎‎

  

WHO - World Antibiotic Awareness Week

This year World Antibiotic Awareness Week will be held from 14 to 20 November 2016. It will be marked by public, policy maker, human & animal health professional, & student engagement through social media & local awareness-raising events around the world.

Antibiotic resistance has become one of the biggest threats to global health & endangers other major priorities, such as development. It is rising to dangerously high levels in all parts
of the world, compromising our ability to treat infectious diseases & undermining many advances in health & medicine.

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WHO | World Antibiotic Awareness Week

Source: WHO

Win a copy of Tietz Textbook of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics

International Pathology Day 2016 Labs Are Vital Photo Contest

Pathologists and laboratory professionals are vital to improving patient care around the world. Help your colleagues celebrate International Pathology Day on Nov. 16, 2016, by participating in  IPD 2016 Labs Are Vital Photo Contest!

Tell the world why you are vital to health care by printing and completing 
“I AM VITAL BECAUSE”

Read more and participate to photo contest:
Labs are vital - Photos

Source: Labs Are Vital!

World Congress of Biomedical Laboratory Science 2018

The 33rd World Congress of Biomedical Laboratory Science will be held on 22-26 September 2018, Firenze, Italy.

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IFBLS, World Congress

Source:   IFBLS

Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine (EBLM)

How important are laboratory results in clinical decision making? Are they as valuable in acute myocardial infarction as for a patient suffering from a common cold? Where is the evidence – and do we have enough data to support better patient outcome?

Choosing the right laboratory test at the right time has become increasingly important particularly in improving and speeding up the diagnostic process and reducing diagnostic errors and costs.

Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine is the leading theme on Thursday 9th of February, 2017 in International Congress on Quality in Laboratory Medicine, Helsinki, Finland.

Highlights from the scientific program

Where Is the Evidence? Demonstrating the Value of Laboratory Medicine, Mike Hallworth, UK
 

Applying the Principles of Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine, Christopher Price, Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Oxford, UK

Quality Control in Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine, Jérémie Gras, Clinical Biologist, Clinique Saint-Luc Bouge, Belgium

Innovative European Strategies in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine: Laboratory Medicine as the Key Player, Olga Golubnitschaja, Editor-in-Chief, The EPMA-Journal, Head of Molecular Diagnostics, University of Bonn, Germany

From Results to Consequences: the Changing Landscape of Test Evaluation, Patrick Bossuyt, Prof. of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

International Congress on Quality in Laboratory Medicine
9th - 10th February, 2017
Helsinki, Finland

Scientific program
Registration

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International Congress on Quality in Laboratory Medicine 2017 

Source: Labquality

Patient Preparation to Blood Sample Collection

Labquality Days - Nordic Congress on Quality in Laboratory Medicine

Mads Nybo, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Physician, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, University hospital of Odense, Denmark

The awareness of the importance of preanalytical factors increases exponentially these years as illustrated by this meeting. Many of these factors are difficult to control, among which patient preparation and blood sampling without doubt is crucial for a correct analysis result. However, information about patient preparation often takes place outside the “jurisdiction” of the laboratory, and blood sampling is also often performed by persons outside the laboratory, so these processes seems difficult to control by the laboratory. But the more difficult it seems, the more important it is that the laboratory plays an active role in information regarding these aspects: Knowledge on what influence erroneous patient preparation has on the analysis results and how correct blood sampling is vital for a reliable analysis result is sparse outside the laboratory; an important task is therefore to inform on these issues and to offer tools for quality assessment and quality control outside the lab.

Read more and find full presentation here:
How to guide and prepare the patient and the importance of sampling 

Sourde: Labquality Days
Image credits: Mads Nybo

Global Students' Conference of Biomedical Sciences

The 3rd Global Student's Conference of Biomedical Sciences (GSC Belgrade) that will be held in 20-23 October, 2016 in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Medical education in scientific research and as well as the acquisition of scientific working skills are of great importance to academic institutions of biomedical sciences on the globe.

Conference goals:

• introducing students to research fields
• presenting results
• acquiring and sharing knowledge and skills
• creating friendships and ideas in future life and work
• implementation of contemporary knowledge of the biomedical sciences

The aims of our conference are to bring undergraduate and postgraduate students of biomedical sciences together and offer them an opportunity to present the results of their investigations and to discuss them with colleagues and leading experts. We also welcome and encourage students of PhD programs to present their research findings at our congress.

Read more (website will be updated soon):
GSC Belgrade Global Students' Conference of Biomedical Sciences in Belgrade

Facebook event:
www.facebook.com/gscbelgrade

Source:CSC Belgrade