Is one test better than two? That question—primary HPV versus the Pap-HPV cotesting option—has roiled the world of cervical cancer screening since the Food and Drug Administration approved a primary HPV screening test in April 2014. However clinicians decide to answer that question, this much is clear: A single report is better than two separate results.

That was the conclusion that leaders at Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s cytopathology laboratory came to in concert with their ob-gyn colleagues after changes were made to cervical cancer screening and management guidelines. At Northwestern, the high-risk HPV/genotyping and the cervical cytology results are combined into a single report that is sent to clinicians through the electronic health record system.

My lead piece in this month’s “Put It on the Board” section of CAP TODAY. Read the whole shebang.

The 2015–2016 influenza season is shaping up to be lighter than physician offices and hospitals have seen in recent years, with fewer flu positives reported, a lower death count, and a smaller share of flu-like illnesses among outpatients.

Last year’s flu season, by contrast, was “very hectic,” says MAJ Charlotte Lanteri, PhD, deputy chief of microbiology at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Tex. It is not just the lower number of patients presenting with flu-like symptoms in the medical center’s inpatient and outpatient settings that has made for a quieter season so far, she says. Also contributing to the peaceful, easy feeling at Fort Sam Houston—at least as regards the flu—is the medical center’s implementation of a rapid molecular test for influenza A and B.