th<\/sup>.<\/p>\nThe clinical laboratory professional is a key member of today\u2019s health care team. Laboratory professionals have the skills to unlock important medical information that is pivotal to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease.<\/p>\n
Every day, nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers depend on laboratory professionals to perform tests on blood and other body fluids, interpret the results, and help provide a complete picture of a patient\u2019s health.<\/p>\n
Using modern biomedical equipment and complicated analysis, laboratorians can detect the presence of cancer, identify infectious viruses and bacteria and measure glucose, cholesterol, or drug levels in blood. Without this precise and valuable information, medicine would simply become guesswork.
\nLaboratory professionals often work in hospitals, physician offices, or private clinical laboratories, performing laboratory tests and monitoring the quality of their results. Others are employed by university or industrial research laboratories to seek solutions for medicine\u2019s many unanswered questions. And these professionals are increasingly found outside the traditional laboratory, participating in community health activities, conducting environmental testing or serving in the Peace Corps.
\nMedical Laboratory Professionals Week (MLPW) began in 1975 under the auspices of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (then the American Society for Medical Technology). JRMC wants to take this opportunity to thank the team of lab professionals at JRMC – you are THE difference. JRMC offers thanks and congratulations to all Medical Laboratory Professionals and appreciates their contributions to the health of the communities in which they serve.<\/p>\n
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FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A man who held up a Fargo liquor store at a time when the city saw an unusually high number of armed robberies has been sentenced to 9 1\/2 years in prison.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carlos Bethel pleaded guilty in January to two counts, including use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. It was one of seven armed robberies in Fargo in September.
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DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota city of Dickinson is hosting a statewide insurance and financial convention this week.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The North Dakota chapter of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors is holding its state convention Wednesday through Friday at the Astoria Hotel & Event Center.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The event attracts some 70 delegates for general sessions, the organization’s state board meeting and a legislative update. An awards banquet is planned for Thursday evening.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Oil and Gas Division says a contained fire at a saltwater disposal well in Dunn County burned nearly 54,000 gallons of oil and saltwater.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 QC Environmental Services Inc. reported Sunday that lightning had struck the tank battery at the site about 13 miles south of Killdeer.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Oil and Gas Division says a contained fire at a saltwater disposal well in Dunn County burned nearly 54,000 gallons of oil and saltwater. QC Environmental Services Inc. reported Sunday that lightning had struck the tank battery at the site about 13 miles south of Killdeer. A state inspector has visited the site. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
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NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) – A Three Affiliated Tribes historian and elder says land that the federal government is returning to the tribe should go to the families it was taken from – not to the tribe itself.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Elder Marilyn Hudson says the land should be returned to the families of the original owners.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tribal Chairman Mark Fox says the 1984 federal law allowing for the land transfer stipulates that the acreage go to the tribe. He says the intended uses would be recreation and economic development.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – The head of Dakotas-based Sanford Health and its major benefactor are speaking at a conference this week in Vatican City.
\n\u00a0Pope Francis also is scheduled to appear at the Cellular Horizons conference Thursday through Saturday, and Vice President Joe Biden is slated to speak.
\n\u00a0The conference will address the progress of regenerative medicine and its cultural impact. It was created by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture and the New York-based Stem for Life Foundation.
\n\u00a0The Argus Leader reports\u00a0 Sanford CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford will be part of a panel on philanthropy. Several Sanford doctors will be on other panels.
\n\u00a0Sanford Health is one of the largest health systems in the nation, with 43 hospitals and nearly 250 clinics in nine states and three countries.<\/p>\n
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In sports…<\/p>\n
NEW YORK (AP) – “Deflategate” is blowing up once again – now that a federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the NFL in the dispute between the league and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. A three-judge panel has ruled 2-to-1 that Brady will have to serve the four-game suspension imposed by the NFL last year over his role in the team’s use of underinflated footballs in the 2014 AFC title game. The appeals ruling follows a September decision that went against the league, letting Brady skip the suspension last season.<\/p>\n
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WASHINGTON (AP) -Donald Trump is railing against a deal reached by Ted Cruz and John Kasich to divvy up a series of upcoming contests in hopes of halting the reality TV star’s march to the GOP nomination. Trump called the deal “collusion” at a rally in Rhode Island. He says that collusion in business or the stock market lands people in jail, but in politics, “you’re allowed to collude” because, as he put it, “it’s a corrupt enterprise.”\u00a0
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BEIRUT (AP) – Additional shelling in the contested Syrian city of Aleppo is further endangering a fragile cease-fire. At least 20 people are reported dead today in the back-and-forth shelling involving government forces and opposition in Syria’s largest city. Eight others were killed in a suicide bombing at a military checkpoint in a Damascus suburb. The Syrian government and its opponents have exchanged blame for cease-fire violations. Still, the latest round of indirect talks between the warring parties in Geneva will continue, despite an opposition walkout.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PHOENIX (AP) – A judge has dismissed a criminal case against a man who had been accused of carrying out a series of freeway shootings in Phoenix last summer. The ruling comes after prosecutors had asked for charges against Leslie Merritt Jr. to be dropped amid questions about evidence. Authorities said they’d used ballistic tests to tie Merritt to four of the 11 shootings. Defense attorneys argued the tests cast doubt on whether Merritt was the gunman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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