Automation in the Clinical Laboratory

Clinical laboratory automation is essential to deliver high quality results in the most cost effective and efficient way. Automation requires minimal operator intervention and helps to increase productivity, tracking of specimens within the laboratory, decreased turnaround times, improvements in specimen handling, improved laboratory safety, and minimizes errors.

LYME Disease

As you continue to spend more time outside enjoying the weather, you’ll be sharing your space with some critters you’ll want to be aware of. Deer ticks can carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, which can have a critical impact on your health if untreated.

HNL Lab Medicine Artwork Contest Celebrates Healthcare Heroes

Throughout the month of May, HNL Lab Medicine, a regional leader in high-quality, innovative laboratory medicine services, announced an artwork contest for children in grades K-8. The goal of this contest was to promote awareness of the healthcare field, encourage creativity, and include a valuable connection to the community in each of HNL’s patient service centers.

Victoria Loven

MD, FCAP

Pathologist

Dr. Loven received her MD from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. She completed her pathology residency at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa and her fellowship in Cytopathology at Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. She is certified by the American Board of Pathology in both Anatomic/ Clinical Pathology and Cytopathology. Her diagnostic interests include Gynecologic and Placental Pathology. Dr. Loven has published in the areas of Cytopathology and Flow Cytometry, is an expert on cervical cancer screening, and lectures on topics including Image Based Cytology in Cervical Cancer Screening and Cervical Cancer Screening in a World with HPV Vaccines and placental pathology.

Publications

Thalidomide-resistant HIV-associated aphthae successfully treated with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor.
Manders SM, Kostman JR, Mendez L, Russin VL. J Am Acad Dermatol. 1995 Aug;33(2 Pt 2):380-2.PMID:7542291

Fine-needle aspiration of dermoid cyst of the pancreas: a case report.
Markovsky V, Russin VL. Diagn Cytopathol. 1993;9(1):66-9.PMID:8458286

Male breast lesions: gynecomastia and its distinction from carcinoma by aspiration biopsy cytology.
Russin VL, Lachowicz C, Kline TS. Diagn Cytopathol. 1989;5(3):243-7.PMID:2791831

Psammoma bodies in neuroendocrine carcinoma of the uterine cervix.
Russin VL, Valente PT, Hanjani P. Acta Cytol. 1987 Nov-Dec;31(6):791-5.PMID:3425140

CMV colitis mimicking Crohn's disease in a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Caroline DF, Hilpert PL, Russin VL. Can Assoc Radiol J. 1987 Sep;38(3):227-8.PMID:2821006

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