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The Science of You: How Molecular Pathology Makes Personalized Healthcare Possible
Patients react to medicine differently. Thankfully, molecular pathology is there to help you determine which medications could work best.
HIV: Taking a Look Back at How Far We’ve Come
At the height of the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s, diagnosing a patient as HIV-positive could have felt catastrophic. While AIDS remains one of the largest global pandemics to date, the medical community has made great strides in widespread HIV treatment in recent...
Skin Cancer: A Disease that We Can Slather Away
May is annual Skin Cancer Awareness Month, but it brings focus to a topic that deserves serious attention by you and your patients throughout the year. Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the U.S., with more than five million cases diagnosed annually. But...
The Importance of COVID-19 Testing — Even as Vaccine Eligibility Opens Up
As of earlier this month, the anticipated COVID-19 vaccine eligibility deadline for all adults across the U.S. has been moved up to April 19th. This is welcome news to a nation that has been battling the coronavirus for more than a year. With the CDC reporting more...
Service Spotlight: Toxicology 101
Toxicology screens play a pivotal role in helping healthcare specialists regularly monitor their patients. While toxicology laboratories can offer testing services of all types, one of their primary functions is to test for the presence of illicit substances. As...
Employee of the Year: Venicia Owens
Venicia Owens didn’t plan to become a medical lab technician. “I kind of stumbled upon it,” she says, “though now I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.” Growing up in Chicago, Owens loved interior decorating and thought she would pursue a career in that...
Three Black Americans Who Made Medical Laboratories Possible
It’s African American History Month, and, here at LifeBrite Laboratories, we’re looking back and paying tribute to some of the many Black scientists and doctors whose work made medical laboratories possible. Their insights, innovations, and advances equip LifeBrite...
Pharmacogenomics and Cardiovascular Medicines
While COVID-19 rightly remains the focus of national healthcare news, heart disease is still the leading cause of death. Your patients with cardiovascular diseases — especially heart failure, coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathies, and pulmonary hypertension — may...
Employee Spotlight: Lindsey Long
Lindsey Long has always loved to learn, and she has always wanted to lead. As an assessments team lead at LifeBrite Labs, both of those drives serve her deep sense of purpose to serve the better health of patients. LifeBrite Laboratories is the third clinical lab Long...
Cervical Cancer: A Disease We Can Defeat
With January being Cervical Health Awareness Month, it’s worth remembering that, according to the CDC, cervical cancer was once “the leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States.” Then came the Papanicolaou (Pap) test, introduced in the U.S. in the...