American Pathologists News Today

Explore the response to the FDA's Laboratory Developed Tests, LDTs, final rule, including industry concessions, legal challenges, and legislative reactions.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital has stopped performing contracted autopsies for the Alabama Department of Corrections, leaving the prison system with no one to examine suspected overdoses or

"The termination of the UAB/ADOC contract does not change anything concerning the lawsuits that have been filed. The damage to those families has already been done," said an attorney representing several of the dead inmates' families.

The attorney expressed frustration as families say their loved ones who died while incarcerated in Alabama prisons were missing organs after their autopsies.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent announcement of a final rule extending regulatory oversight to laboratory developed tests (LDTs) has sparked controversy. As...

Ronan J. Kelly, MD, MBA, discusses the significance of the FDA approval of trastuzumab deruxtecan for pretreated, advanced HER2-positive solid tumors.

Cancer rates are soaring in younger adults, causing for a wake-up call for early detection and screening.

Yesterday, the Food & Drug Administration (“FDA” or “the Agency”) issued a highly anticipated – and highly controversial – final rule, which rolls out a four-year, five-stage plan that...

News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues

“It’s like a horror movie,” said a son who learned about his father's missing organs after hiring a private pathologist to perform an autopsy on the body.