Design and implementation of a local Health Alert Network.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began implementing a national Health Alert Network (HAN) to act as a communications infrastructure for response to bioterrorist events and other emergencies. State and local health departments are starting to use this communication system. The implementation and use of the HAN at the local level is different from use at the state and federal level.

Impact of color blindness on recognition of blood in body fluids.

Background: Color blindness is a common hereditary X-linked disorder.

Objective: To investigate whether color blindness affects the ability to detect the presence of blood in body fluids.

Methods: Ten color-blind subjects and 20 sex- and age-matched control subjects were shown 94 photographs of stool, urine, or sputum.

Getting involved in the legal system: choice or chance?

The legal system and the laboratory are becoming involved with each other on a daily basis today and the technologist is, willingly or unwillingly, being drawn into this unfamiliar arena. This article will explain some of the manner by which a part of that arena operates, specifically the trial courts. Whether civil or criminal, these courts are governed by rules and methods of operation for the persons in them.