Events

What is NASCOLA?

I (Geo) enjoyed dining with our NASCOLA colleagues on Wednesday, 7 May 2025, while attending the 2025 ISLH annual meeting in Halifax, NS. NASCOLA is a nonprofit organization that provides proficiency testing services for North American laboratories that perform diagnostic testing for bleeding or thrombotic disorders, thereby improving performance standards. NASCOLA reviews and assists with […]

Lab Developed Tests Rule

Thanks to PBI’s Dean Willett for his heads-up about the March 31, 2025 ruling, “FDA‘s LDT Rule Struck Down in Texas Court.” The US FDA‘s 2024 “Final Rule” outlined plans to subject lab-developed tests to the same requirements as medical devices. The Texas ruling illustrates the US struggle to achieve a realistic approach to validation […]

How to Improve Lab Testing

From Heather DeVries: In the scope of the whole world, how do labs search for new ways to improve their laboratory testing? Would it just be typing in the search bar, or are there ways to find the latest information randomly while looking for other things? George replies, Heather, my surface-level response is to suggest […]

Specimen Management

ASCLS Oregon & Washington Spring Seminar

Click here to access the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science ASCLS-OR, ASCLS-WA Virtual Spring Seminar, April 3–4, 2025. On Friday, April 4, 8–9 PDT, George presents “Have We Cured Hemophilia?” To download your copy of the presentation handout, click Hemophilia. We look forward to your live attendance for this great two-day program.

Bleeding Disorders

Annals of Blood Author Interview

The 2018 article, Ernst DJ, Fritsma GA, McGlasson DM. Labeling tubes before collection threatens patient safety, 2018 Annals of Blood, doi: 10.21037/aob.2018.02.06 earned the journal’s Readers’ Choice Award for being accessed more than 20,000 times. AOB Editor Jin Ye Yeo invited me (Geo) to provide a written interview, released on December 18, 2024. Thanks to […]

Medical Laboratory Science Career Pathway

This post is a departure from our hemostasis focus. I (Geo) am a Medical Laboratory Scientist practitioner and educator. If you wish to apply your science knowledge to a humanitarian career, consider our profession. On December 6, 2024, ASCP’s Am J Clin Pathol published Guenther GA, Shahrir SF, Skillman SM, Kundu I, Garcia E, Frogner […]

Coag Conversation: ITP and Platelet Functional Disorders, Part 2

Here is the second of our three-part series, “A Coag Conversation: ITP and Inherited Platelet Function Disorders.” featuring Michele Lambert, MD, MSTR, interviewed by George Fritsma and sponsored by BioMedica Diagnostics, Inc. Dr. Lambert is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Pearlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Pediatric Hematologist at the Children’s Hospital […]

Platelet Function Testing

Hot Topics in Hemostasis: Nomenclature Standardization

Frequent contributor David L. McGlasson is featured in the Differential Discussions series hosted by Assistant Professor David Cabral, MBA, MLS(ASCP)cm, SH(ASCP)cm of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Assistant Professor Malissa Norfolk, MBA, MLS(ASCP)cm, SH(ASCP)cm, of the University of Maine-Augusta faculty. Click here to meet Malissa and David, and to hear Mr. McGlasson’s discussion of […]

Coagulation Factors

November 2024 Quick Question: History

Our November Quick Question, seen on the right, is a simple quiz with one correct answer. Please comment on your response or add your favorite historical anecdotes.

Coag Conversation: ITP and Platelet Functional Disorders

Introducing “A Coag Conversation: ITP and Inherited Platelet Function Disorders-Part One.” a three-part series featuring Michele Lambert, MD, MSTR, interviewed by George Fritsma and sponsored by BioMedica Diagnostics, Inc. Dr. Lambert is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Pearlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Pediatric Hematologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In […]

Platelet Function Testing

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George Fritsma is a medical laboratory scientist, educator, and author. George holds faculty appointments with Rutgers University and Michigan State University, and is a member of the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis, American Association of Clinical Chemists, and American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science.

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