12 November 2007
Greetings:
This is our monthly email highlighting changes made to PathologyOutlines.com. The last email was sent on 11 October 2007.
Advertisers: We welcome these new and renewing sponsors: ARUP (January 27, 2008 Surgical Pathology conference) and Audit Quality Inc. (pathology practice consulting).
Books: We have several options for purchasing books. First, you can click on the Amazon.com banner on the left side of our Home Page. This takes you to the Amazon home page, with their daily specials (which also includes products other than books). Second, you can click on the AStore banner just below the Amazon banner on the Home Page. This takes you to a list of recent pathology related books available from Amazon. Third, you can visit our Books pages by clicking on the Books button on the left hand side of the Home Page. This contains over 1000 pathology related books, sorted by specialty, with separate lists of WHO and AFIP books, a list of new books and books sorted by author. These books pages include every known pathology related book since 2000 - let us know if we are missing any. All purchases from Amazon.com through these links help support our free website, without costing you anything.
To receive a monthly email listing new books added to our Books pages, email info@pathologyoutlines.com with “subscribe to new books email” in the subject line. There is no charge.
New books recently added to our Books pages:
Bruns: Fundamentals of Molecular Diagnostics
By David E Bruns, Edward R Ashwood and Carl A Burtis
2007 (1st ed), 288 pages, $60 list
This book offers an introduction to the newest, fastest-growing field in laboratory science. Explaining and clarifying the molecular techniques used in diagnostic testing, this text provides both entry-level and advanced information. It covers the principles of molecular biology along with genomes and nucleic acid alterations, techniques and instrumentation, and applications of molecular diagnostics.
Chhieng:
Pancreatic Cytopathology (Essentials in Cytopathology)
By David C Chhieng and Edward B Stelow
2007 (1st ed), 204 pages, 172 illus, $60 list
This volume will fulfill the need for an easy-to-use and authoritative synopsis of pancreas cytopathology. This volume, part of the Essentials in Cytopathology book series, fits into the lab coat pocket and is ideal for portability and quick reference.
Clement: Atlas of Gynecologic Surgical Pathology
By Philip B Clement and Robert H Young
2008 (2nd ed), 512 pages, $235 list
Full of stunning color photographs, this authoritative reference provides practical, easy-to-use guidance on the histopathologic diagnosis of gynecologic lesions. Written by world-renowned experts, this visual resource clearly describes the cardinal clinical, gross, and microscopic features of each lesion, as well as the staging system for tumors at each site. Clinical correlations of surgical pathology, clinical data, and immunohistochemical data help you to weigh all of the available evidence to form the most decisive diagnoses.
Strasinger: Urinalysis and body fluids
By Susan King Strasinger
2008 (5th ed), 320 pages, 375 illus, $55 list
This thoroughly updated 5th Edition provides you with concise and carefully structured full-color instruction in the handling and analysis of non-blood body fluids.
Wallach: Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests - discounted
By Jacques Wallach
2006 (8th ed), 1200 pages, 109 illus, $70 list
"Arranged by organ system, the book summarizes the available tests for most diseases, explains what the results mean, and discusses differential diagnoses. This thoroughly updated edition includes additional tests based on molecular biology, new data on the use of genetic tests, and many new diagnostic laboratory tests in chemistry.
Buyer’s Guide: We have a new Consumer Goods section on the Buyer’s Guide. This lists many companies with whom we have an affiliate relationship. These companies pay us a percentage of all sales from our website, so we encourage you to visit their websites. We only include companies that would appear to interest our visitors. The companies included to date are:
Amazon.com. Electronics, apparel, computers, books, DVDs and more
Brushstrokes Fine Art. Hand painted fine art oil painting reproductions on canvas
Creative Products. Housewares, home electronics and more
Destination Lighting. Indoor / outdoor lighting
FramesDirect.com. Eyeglasses, sunglasses and contact lenses
Global Golf. Golf clubs, bags, shoes.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW). Books, including pathology related books
Sleeptracker. Worn like a watch, monitors sleep patterns during the night
Wine Legacy. Superb quality, hand-picked wines from around the world.
Let us know other types of companies you are interested in.
Case of the week: We list cases by Case Number (thru #100) without and with the diagnosis and by category (i.e. GI, GU, soft tissue, etc.). We have cases for the next several months, but we are always accepting interesting cases - we only need diagnostic microscopic images and a brief clinical history. The cases should not be too routine. Click on the Case of the Week button on the left hand side of the Home Page to see a list of our Cases or for more information. If you have comments on a case, please let us know.
To review these cases by email, email info@pathologyoutlines.com with “subscribe to COW” in the subject line. There is no charge.
Emails: We have 6 email lists - Case of the Week (weekly, about 40 weeks per year), Jobs for Pathologists/PhDs (biweekly), Other laboratory Jobs (biweekly), New Books (monthly), Website news (monthly) and a Newsletter (twice a year). To subscribe, email info@pathologyoutlines.com and indicate which email list you want to subscribe to. All of our email lists are private and are not shared, sold or used for any other purpose. Click on the Email updates button (left side of Home Page) for more information.
Exhibits: We recently attended the annual Wayne State University conference in Dearborn, Michigan, and the ASCP Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Next month we will attend the Michigan Society of Pathologists Winter Meeting. Please stop by our booth and say hello if you will be attending. We are always interested in your comments on how we can make our website more useful to you.
Improvements: Our website is under continuous improvement and is updated daily. Please email us if you see a possible error or have a comment. I personally respond to each email, usually within one business day.
Jobs page: We have two Jobs pages that continue to grow. One is for Pathologists and PhD’s, and also contains separate sections in the Table of Contents for locums / part time jobs, open residency slots and PhD positions. The other Jobs page is for all other laboratory positions, such as pathology assistants, cytotechnologists, supervisors, histotechnicians, etc. These jobs are also listed by job type (i.e. pathology assistant, manager, etc.).
Link checking: We are now fixing the bad links from Journal of Clinical Pathology, which unfortunately switched from a no registration site to a registration (for no charge) site. We are trying to post as many images as possible on our server, when allowed by law, to reduce the problem of bad links when other websites go down.
Mission: On-line since August 2001, our goal is to help pathologists and laboratory personnel find information fast. Visit our website as your first step to find pathology information. We provide a comprehensive textbook of pathology and other resources for pathologists and laboratory personnel, with information that can be found in two or three clicks from the Home Page, either in the text or in one of our 18,000 image links or 13,000 references.
We have decided to discontinue links to websites that require plug-ins. For now, this primarily affects Web microscope, which is otherwise a very nice website. Unfortunately, many computers cannot download plug-ins, and we would like our website to be usable from any computer, with any browser. We recommend that other websites with plug-ins also have a version that works with ordinary browsers.
New Products and Services page: We now add announcements on a regular basis. It’s a good place to visit to check what’s new for the pathology community. Click on the New Products button on the left side of the Home Page to access this page.
Surgical pathology textbook: We extensively updated the Conjunctiva chapter of the Eye chapter. We are now updating the Breast chapter, and will split it into two sections - nonmalignant (normal, benign, atypia) and malignant (DCIS, malignancies, males, children, miscellaneous). We have decided to update the chapters more frequently that are visited the most, namely breast, soft tissue, ovary, kidney tumor, uterus, stains, thyroid, skin tumor, CNS tumor, skin nontumor, CD markers and bladder. We plan to update all chapters regularly, but will focus on these a little more. We are also spending more time writing, so we can update more quickly.
Thanks.
-- Nat
Nat Pernick, M.D., President
PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
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