Issue #8 โ€ข 2026

ICMED Magazine #8

October 5, 2026

Contents of this issue

1
Editorial Editorial

The easy bit

Technology is the easy part these days. The real challenge lies in what happens before, after and around the machine: interpreting data, managing p...

2
Tissue and Blood

The Bag Remembers โ€“ But Are We Listening?

Blood banks collect vast amounts of data every day on donations, inventory, blood component utilization, and transfusion outcomes. Yet much of this...

3
Regulations

The procedure must be amazing too

The management of controlled medicines in healthcare facilities requires a security system that goes beyond mere compliance with procedures. Drawin...

4
Organization

Building Sustainable and Resilient Medical Laboratories: Integrating Quality, Digital Innovation, and Environmental Responsibility

A sustainable laboratory goes beyond reducing consumption and waste by integrating quality, patient safety, digital innovation, and organizational ...

5
Fertility

Artificial intelligence in the assisted reproductive technology (ART) laboratory: emerging applications and implications for process quality

Artificial intelligence is transforming medically assisted reproduction (MAR) laboratories, opening up new possibilities for embryo assessment, gam...

6
Cell Therapy

Before the Tube Leaves the Bedside

The reliability of a laboratory result begins long before a specimen reaches the analyzer. In hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, every step o...

7
Technology

When artificial intelligence analyses the gut: the new frontier in the early diagnosis of bowel cancer

Artificial intelligence is opening up new avenues for the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer through the analysis of the gut microbiota. A study ...

8
Cell Therapy

Umbilical cord blood in the treatment of ocular GvHD: new therapeutic approaches

The use of umbilical cord blood opens up new prospects in regenerative medicine. This article presents a study on the use of platelet lysate derive...