NSH asked the histotechs on our Histology Professionals Facebook page to share their tips for others in the profession. Thank you to them, for these brilliant words of wisdom: "A drop of Dawn dish soap in your water bath will keep fatty sections from exploding. Cold curved forceps...
In Part 2 of this series, Meghan McDonald shares a few more of the most common special stains in histology. Iron stain is used to detect ferric (Fe3+) iron in tissues. Ferric iron is generally found in small quantities in the bone marrow and spleen;...
Special Stains are used in histology to identify specific organisms which are not normally distinguished during routine Hematoxylin and Eosin (H & E) staining. There are many different types of special stains, but the most common ones are briefly discussed below: ...
On November 7, 2018, I attended a meeting of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC) on behalf of NSH. I had the opportunity to hear two presentations on diagnostic error. CLIAC is concerned about diagnostic errors, and asked the presenters to speak on the following...
What is CLIA, anyway? Those of us in the laboratory field hear about CLIA and CLIA regulations all the time, but what exactly are they? And how do they concern us as histology professionals? What is CLIA? The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) regulations include...
Donate to the Global Health Fund Celebrated on the Tuesday following the huge shopping days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday encourages people to kick off the holiday season by donating money, time, or resources to the causes that are important to them. Created by the team at...
In Part 1 of this series , the S/C poster presenters from Diapath, shared their research into the problems associated with traditional methods of coverslipping. To address these problems, they compared traditional methods with the newer coverslipping option, "liquid glass". ...
Introduction to Coverslipping Histological and cytological sections, which need to be examined for any length of time or stored, must be mounted under a cover-slip [3] A drop of synthetic mounting medium is placed over the tissue after blotting away excess clearing...
Anyone in a histology lab knows that waste disposal is an important safety concern. In honor of America Recycles Day, November 15th, NSH is sharing some important factors to keep in mind when disposing of laboratory waste. A hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make...
Frozen sectioning is a technique generally performed in a histopathological laboratory to obtain a rapid microscopic diagnosis. The freshly excised specimen arrives in the laboratory, is processed, sectioned in a cryostat and stained in less than 30 minutes. This technique is predominately used...