Trends and Technology: Spring 2002

Mary Jane Gore

doi:10.29074/ascls.15.2.128

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Mary Jane Gore

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Trends and Technology welcomes releases and information about new products, services, Web sites, trends, and upcoming events. If your company has a Web site that you would like for us to review, please send us news for our Online section, or tell us about sites that would interest clinical laboratory scientists. These sites, as well as the new product information, are offered for reader information only. We cannot vouch for them and their presence here does not constitute an endorsement by CLS or ASCLS.

ONLINE I felt I was unearthing a real treasure when a routine search took me to Clinical Laboratory Science Internet Resources©, compiled by Louis B. Caruana, Ph.D. (http://members.tripod.com/~LouCaru/index-5.html). Caruana is professor emeritus of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program, college of Health Professions, Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. I hope that those of you unfamiliar with it will visit and share in the wonder.

He has compiled what looks to be the most comprehensive list of laboratory related sites anywhere. The main pages are divided into the traditional categories of laboratory medicine, including mycology and parasitology, but he also includes education resources, laboratory management resources, phlebotomy, professional associations and organizations, and student resources. Just to be esoteric, here are some of the links I found:

The Academy of Medical Laboratory Science—The AMLS is an academic body representing the majority of medical laboratory scientists in Ireland. Five separate sites providing information on myeloproliferative disorders. Clip-Art Alley, which claims to be the largest clip-art gallery online, plus…