Dear Valued Clients, UF Health Pathology Laboratories will be CLOSED on Labor Day, Monday, September 2, 2024. Please note that FedEx will be closed on Monday, September 2, 2024, so please schedule shipping appropriately. Muscle, Renal, and Nerve cases must be shipped no later than Thursday, August 29, 2024 in…
PathLabs will no longer be performing Covid IgG in-house. This test will be sent to LabCorp as test number 164055 beginning 8/6/2024…
Please note, effective July 18th, 2024, the Orange Hologic Aptima Multitest Swab will no longer be an acceptablesample type for COVID-19, FLU and RSV testing. This affects the following orderables:SARS-CoV-2, NAA • LAB17010Covid-19 Plus Flu A/B/RSV LAB17011 Viral Transport Media (VTM) and…
UF Health Pathology Laboratories is pleased to announce the launch of FISH forchromosomes 13/18/21 for suspicion or confirmation of trisomy in blood specimens(LAB5851 in EPIC). FISH for trisomy 13 or 18 will be treated as STAT (1 business dayturnaround time) and trisomy 21 will be treated as…
On April 24th and April 25th, UFHPL Core Lab experienced an unintentional instrumentation bias for two of our assays, Sodium and Chloride; which have now been corrected.
Dear Clients, We are happy to announce that we have brought testosterone and total T4 assays in house. You will now experience results in 1-3 days…
Date: 08/28/2023 From: UF Health Pathology Laboratories To: Valued Client UF Health Pathology Laboratories will be monitoring the weather activity of Tropical Storm Idalia closely in regard to any impact it may have on our service area. To better serve our client’s needs, UF Health Pathology Laboratories recommends…
https://pathlabs.ufl.edu/wordpress/files/2023/06/168790AB_6.28.23-PATHOLOGY_ElectrophoresisImmunotyping_AnnouncementFlyer_v1.pdf UF Health Pathology Laboratories is excited to announce that we are now performing serum protein electrophoresis, immunofixation electrophoresis, and immunotyping in house! Expect a turnaround time of 4-6 days. The methods have been verified against the manufacturer’s claims and we have found them to be accurate and precise.
UF Health Pathology Laboratories is happy to announce that it is adding additional Urogenital Health testing to its current molecular test offerings. For ease of collection, these tests and panels have been validated for submission using the Aptima Multi-Test Swab Collection Kit. Additional Tests/Panels Added: Candida Vaginosis and Trichomonas Vaginalis…
On Tuesday March 1, the Clinical Laboratory and UF Health Pathology Laboratories, in partnership with the Division of Nephrology, will switch the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) for individuals 18 or older from the current 4-part MDRD calculation to the new 2021 CKD-EPI formula. This latter calculation does not…
