4 May 2018 (Friday) - Digital Morphology EQA

The digital morphology NEQAS closed today. Unfortunately my membership of the scheme hadn’t been renewed in time, but I was able to review the slide retrospectively.

What did I think… I thought “yuk”. There were a *lot* of dysplastic cells there. Mind you with the diagnosis of “Pre BMT” that wasn’t entirely enexpected…

3 may 2018 (Thursday) - Medical News Today email

The “Medical News Today” email arrived today. *Loads* of papers on all sorts of subjects… these three caught my eye though:

Blood / Hematology News
What is the difference between leukemia and lymphoma?	30 Apr 2018
Can an iron deficiency cause hair loss?	30 Apr 2018
Macrocytic anemia: Symptoms and treatment	25 Apr 2018

2 May 2018 (Wednesday) - P. Knowlsei

Following a discussion at work I found myself looking up plasmodium knowlseii. I found a rather interesting paper – you can read it by clicking here.

 Did they *really* deliberately infect prisoners to watch the disease progress ?