31 August 2016 (Wednesday) - IBMS e-newsletter

The IBMS newsletter came in this morning. All actually rather interesting; however some was irrelevant.

·         Parkinson's Disease Risk Indicators Found in Diverse Tissues

·         Novel MRI technique distinguishes healthy prostate tissue from cancer using zinc

·         Smartphone app may help improve antiretroviral therapy adherence

·         Should we be Concerned about Biohacking?

·         DNA database brings scientists closer to pinpointing genes for disease

·         Pop Culture Dissections You Won’t See in Any Medical Books

·         The Lonely Life of a Clinical Pathologist: Rounding in the Lab

·         What's Your Hemolysis Quotient? Test your knowledge of hemolysis and steps labs take to deal with it

·         Obstacles in transgender pathology healthcare

·         Optimising pathology services: improvement throgh effectiveness not efficiency

·         Microbiology Case Study: A 61 Year Old Male with Productive Cough and Altered Mental Status

·         Noble’s 11 Rules: How to NOT DIE working in your laboratory

·         Antibiotic resistance: 'Snot wars' study yields new class of drugs

It is so easy to get engrossed in histological dissections or antibiotic discussions, or the ethics of LBGT. CPD is supposed to help me improve what I do. I need to focus. I’m not entirely sure the IBMS e-newsletter isn’t too generalist for its own good…