Jordan Rosenfeld

Indigenous peoples have long struggled to access quality healthcare in the United States. While many of the issues related to these barriers cannot be solved in the laboratory alone, those laboratories and hospitals that employ more people who are indigenous to the patient populations being served bring cultural competency that leads to better and higher-quality patient care.

One might not think that finance and football have much in common, but according to Jed Collins, a former NFL fullback best known for playing with the New Orleans Saints, now a certified financial planner (CFP) and financial educator, they overlap quite a lot.

The housing market is in a state of flux with new and existing home sales on the rise (as of August 2024) but overall home affordability declining, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Some real estate experts feel it’s due for a reset.

The moment when your children become independent adults can be a big relief, financially (and in other ways) for many parents, freeing up money and time.
However, for a number of reasons, adult children sometimes move back home.

Burnout in the workplace is a problem that spans almost every industry, so it should be no surprise that it also rears its head in the laboratory workforce. However, according to a study published in February 2024 in AJCP,1 there’s a unique kind of burnout affecting laboratory professionals and pathologists that is cause for alarm and intervention: Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) related burnout.

While it’s hard to know for sure how much influence a vice president has on a president, if the Harris-Walz ticket were to win the White House in November, what might Walz bring to the table — and how could this affect the economy?

Though there have been significant strides in gender-affirming care for transgender and gender non-conforming patients, there are still barriers that pathologists and laboratory professionals can help break down.

Healthcare institutions worldwide are increasingly adopting digital pathology to enhance accuracy, speed up diagnoses, and improve data storage. With significant advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, digital pathology is changing fast, presenting both opportunities and challenges for pathologists.

The stock market has hit some record highs in 2024, reaching numbers that make the economy look positively unshakable. But what does a high stock market mean to the average person?

The work of laboratory professionals and pathologists spans a wide variety of roles and areas of medicine. One often underrecognized area of the laboratory is histocompatibility and immunogenetics, or human leukocyte antigen testing, (HLA), the two sides of organ transplant medicine, which work together.

Every year, patients receive millions of red blood cell (RBC) units through blood transfusions in the U.S. To do so safely, donor cells must be assessed for compatibility to avoid alloantibody reactions in the recipient, which can induce illness, and even death.1 The problem is, there is currently no active, centralized database of RBC alloantibody information, or blood transfusion history, that can travel with a patient to all medical facilities.

Founded in 2020, the Society of Black Pathologists (SBP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing barriers to diversity and inclusion in pathology. The Society works to increase Black and underrepresented minorities in pathology, as well as offers mentorship for career and leadership development. It is also focused on expanding research in healthcare disparities.

Delays to routine doctor visits may seem like no big deal, but they can have significant costs, financially, and to your health at large.

To ensure that you don’t find yourself poor in retirement, here are eight investment ideas that can keep baby boomers financially sound at this crucial stage of life.