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Ring in the New Year, Please E-mail

Wisconsin is covered with snow, some 18 inches has fallen here in Madison, schools are closed, the University students are staging the biggest snowball fight ever, and I’m “homebound” until the streets get plowed.  It seems like a good time to stop and think about the past year and start planning for the next year.

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March Madness: Out-of-control in North Dakota E-mail

Dr. Westgard returned to his birthplace in March. Reflecting on events there more than half a century ago, as well as those terrible floods of more recent times, Dr. Westgard writes that both path and present call us to quality.

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Announcement of 2003 NACB Alvin Dubin award E-mail

Dr. Westgard receives the
2003 Professor Alvin Dubin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Discipline and Practice of Clinical Biochemistry from the NACB

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Truthful claims may not be enough E-mail

February 2007

This year will see the launch of a fleet of new regulations and standards for the laboratory and the manufacturer. But is it really enough to verify that an instrument does what the manufacturer says it does? Don't we need to assure that the instrument does something clinically useful, too?

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Global and Local Imperatives for US Healthcare E-mail

January 2007

After traveling to five continents in 2006, Dr. Westgard gained a new perspective on US healthcare. As our healthcare system fails, the world is watching.

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