NEWLETTER INDEX BY CATEGORY           (newsleter index by date)


General Medical and Preventive Health:
•  9/96 – Ordering of Profiles in regards to Medicare
•  3/97 – Medicare/Medicaid Test Ordering & Medical Necessity
•  5-6/97 – Atherogenic Dyslipidemia
•  1/98 – Laboratory CPT Code Changes for 1998
•  5/98 – Fraud and Abuse in Today's Clinical Laboratory Environment
•  7-8/98 – Malnutrition in Hospitalized Patients
•  9/98 – Fecal Occult Blood Testing
•  11/98 – Drug Testing to be Impacted by Recent Federal Rule Changes
•  3/00 – Chemistry Panel Changes
•  8/00 – Inpatient Screening Tests
•  9/00 – How Much Can a Laboratory Test Change and Still Be the Same?
•  11-12/01 – Biological Terrorism
•  3-4/02 – Value of Community-Based Medicine
•  5-6/02 – Advance Beneficiary Notices (ABNs)

Endocrine Disease:
•  10/97 – Management of Patients with Diabetes Mellitus
•  11/97 – Gene Test Available for Hemochromatosis
•  3/98 – Thyroid Function Tests
•  2-3/99 – New Thyroid Function Test Cascade

Blood and Coagulation Disorders:
•  8/96 – Automated Differential White Blood Cell Counts in the Pediatric Population
•  8/96 – Potpourri of Special Notes on Peripheral Blood Smears
•  10/96 – Update on Preoperative Testing of Hemostasis
•  5-6/97 – Guidelines for Assessing Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Lipid Testing
•  5/99 – Approach to the Lab Investigation of Vitamin B 12 Deficiency
•  6-7/99 – Blood Component Summary
•  2/00 – Laboratory Evaluation of Polycythemia
•  3/01 – Trends in Blood Collection and Utilization
•  4/01 – Post-Transfusion Hemoglobin Levels
•  9/01 – New Lipid Guidelines
•  1-2/02 – Monoclonal Gammopathies

Infectious Disease:
•  2/97 – Urinary Tract Infections in Children
•  2/97 – Urinary Culture Turnaround Time
•  2/97 – New Developments in Testing for Chlamydia Trachomatis
•  4/97 – Rotavirus Testing and Positive Predictive Value Seasonally Appropriate Testing
•  7/97 – Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Gonorrhea
•  8/97 – Update on Lab Testing for Human Immunodeficiency Virus
•  9/97 – Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Trichomonas
•  11/97 – HIV Diagnosis in the Newborn
•  2/98 – CMV PCR
•  4/98 – Enteroviral Meningitis
•  9/98 – Helicobacter Pylori Highlights
•  5/00 – Hepatitis C
•  5/00 – Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) PCR

Genitourinary Disease:
•  11/96 – Guidelines for Adult Female Urinary Tract Infections
•  1/97 – Pap Smear Introduction
•  2/97 – Urinary Tract Infections in Children
•  7/97 – Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Gonorrhea
•  9/97 – Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Trichomonas
•  6/98 – ThinPrep Pap Test
•  7/00 – ThinPrep Pap Test Update

Cancer Testing:
•  6/98 – ThinPrep Pap Test
•  9/98 – Fecal Occult Blood Testing
•  10/98 – New Developments in Breast Cancer Markers
•  7/00 – ThinPrep Pap Test Update
•  1-2/02 – Monoclonal Gammopathies

Pediatric Disease:
•  8/96 – Automated Differential White Blood Cell Counts in the Pediatric Population
•  2/97 – Urinary Tract Infections in Children
•  4/97 – Rotavirus Testing and Positive Predictive Value Seasonally Appropriate Testing
•  11/97 – HIV Diagnosis in the Newborn
•  6/00 – Laboratory Testing in Internationally Adopted Children
•  1/01 – Laboratory Testing in Children with Suspected Sexual Abuse
•  7-8/02 – Newborn Screening by Tandem Mass Spectrometry (MS/MS)