March 2017

X-ray: Shutterstock Resources

How to…monitor a clinical service using audit

Following the completion of a high-quality audit, the team at Manchester Royal Infirmary’s cytology department offer guidance on monitoring a clinical service.

Cytopathology
Mosquito: iStock News

Malaria: Concern as treatment fails

A key malaria treatment has failed for the first time in patients being treated in the UK.

Haematology & Transfusion Science, Immunology
Discussion: iStock News

Promoting the profession

Biomedical scientists and IBMS members have been promoting and discussing the profession at debates and talks over recent weeks.

Resources

My lab: Veterinary Disease Surveillance

Dawn Alderson gives a guided tour of her veterinary disease surveillance lab, which is “similar to a hospital pathology laboratory”, but with more species to consider.

Microbiology & Virology
Scientists discussing: iStock Resources

Here to help: Providing advice and guidance

In the third of our Here to Help series of articles, Jocelyn Pryce, IBMS Head of Registration, discusses the evolving role of CPD Officers.

Journal-based learning: iStock Resources

Journal-based learning exercises March 2017

Journal-based learning (JBL) exercises are a regular feature of CPD coverage in The Biomedical Scientist. You may complete as many JBL exercises as you wish and you are not restricted by specialty.

bio News

Obituary: Jayantilal Bhundia

It is with sadness that we report the passing of a colleague and a friend, Jayantilal (Jay) Bhundia, following a short battle with pancreatic cancer.

Embryo: iStock Science

When are we human?

John Windell looks at the religious, moral and scientific principles that have governed research into embryos and asks if a rule that has stood for 30 years is set to change.

Resources

Quality, education and management

Sarah May, Deputy Chief Executive at the IBMS, talks through some programme highlights for this year’s Congress.

Scientist: iStock Science

Privatising pathology

Why are labs being put out to tender? Is “creeping” privatisation a problem for pathology, or can it be beneficial?

Exosomes: Jason Drees Science

Life in a bubble

Biomedical engineers may have found a way of combating one of the deadliest forms of cancer, pancreatic cancer, with a diagnostic method that can catch it, even at its early stages.

Cytopathology
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