In this podcast episode released on March 25, 2020, Machaon Diagnostics’ Medical Director, Dr. Brad Lewis, shares his views on hypercoagulability and COVID-19. We hope you find this podcast helpful.
A Message from our Founder: We are amid a massive population exercise of how to reduce person-to-person contact to sufficiently reduce the spread of COVID-19. Vitally important is the preservation of the clinical laboratory infrastructure around the world. Many sick patients do not have the option to delay their care. We recognize that Machaon Diagnostics [ Read Moreo]
Our latest podcast episode with Dr. Brad Lewis focuses on post-BMT TMAs. It is worth a listen.
One of the most viewed pages on our website is the Hypercoagulability Panel. Many of these visits are from patients seeking more information based on a test ordered by their physician or a comment made during a doctor’s appointment. We wanted to help give those patients some thoughts, straight from the perspective of our Medical [ Read Moreo]
Machaon Diagnostics is excited to launch the world’s fastest NGS genetic testing for Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis with our 48-hour STAT Hemophagocytic (Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) Genetic Panel. This often deadly disease can be difficult to diagnose, and genetic results can add clarity to a murky clinical picture. Prior to the launch of the Machaon Diagnostics genetic panel, the [ Read Moreo]
Machaon Diagnostics was proud to be a lead sponsor for the first ever Hemophilia Drug Development Summit in Boston, August 15 & 16. The summit was a great meeting with the leading pharmaceutical companies in discussion about the state of the field. Our CEO, Mike Ero, spoke and the event on Wednesday morning. The event [ Read Moreo]
Your data is safe at Machaon. On May 15, 2018, European security researchers published a report describing vulnerabilities in the popular email encryption schemes PGP and S/MIME. The vulnerability, dubbed EFAIL, allows an attacker, who has first intercepted an encrypted message, to manipulate the message in such a way that allows for the plain text [ Read Moreo]
We are known for our ADAMTS-13 turnaround time, but how fast is it exactly? We did the math. We looked at two years worth of ADAMTS-13 testing and calculated that from the time of receipt, our turnaround time came out to 6.5 hours. That means if we get it today, it is getting resulted today. [ Read Moreo]
For Immediate Release 5/22/2007 Contact: Mike Ero, Lab Director MACHAON DIAGNOSTICS RECEIVES ACCREDITATION FROM COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS The Accreditation Committee of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) has awarded accreditation to Machaon Diagnostics, Oakland, CA based on results of a recent on-site inspection as part of the CAP’s Accreditation Programs. The facility’s director, Mike Ero, was [ Read Moreo]
This is a webinar about platelet functional defects was given Feb. 24, 2017 by Dr. Brad Lewis. In the talk, Dr. Lewis discusses current testing approaches and the role genetics can play, including the PlateletGenex Functional Defect Panel.