| January 2007 | ||
| 03rd January: | The University of York, in conjunction with HMDS are planning to run a new distance-learning MSc in Haematopathology starting in October 2007; 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time. This course is suitable for haematology staff working in clinical or research settings e.g. Clinical Scientists, Biomedical Scientists, Specialist Registrars etc. who wish to specialise in Haematopathology. | |
| June 2005 | ||
| 28th June: | Revision of HMDS diagnostic criteria of haematological malignancies following audit of laboratory SOP's. | |
| 17th June: | Updated FISH page. | |
| April 2005 | ||
| 15th April: | New section - Presentations. Starting with presentations given at the Interphase FISH for B-lymphoproliferative Disorders Study Day in Leeds on 2nd March 2005. | |
| December 2004 | ||
| 07th December: | 2nd revision of HMDS diagnostic criteria of haematological malignancies following annual audit of laboratory SOP's. | |
| March 2003 | ||
| 10th March: | revised HMDS diagnostic criteria for myeloproliferative and lymphoproliferative disorders following annual audit of laboratory SOP's. | |
| July 2002 | ||
| 18th July: | a review of PNH, summarizing a series of articles published in medical journals by HMDS staff, giving an up-to-date overview of PNH, but written for the patient/layman with a minimum of medical/scientific jargon. | |
| March 2002 | ||
| 12th March: | revised HMDS diagnostic criteria for myeloproliferative and lymphoproliferative disorders following publication in late 2001 of the World Health Organisation Classification of Tumours of the Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues. | |
| July 2001 | ||
| 17th July: | updated Javascript Tree Menu (to version 2.3.0), which now supports the new Netscape/Gecko v6 web-browser. | |
| September 2000 | ||
| 14th September: | revised the HMDS diagnostic criteria for the lymphoproliferative, myeloproliferative and non-malignant haematological disorders, in line with forthcoming WHO guide-lines for the classification of haematological malignancies. | |
| July 2000 | ||
| 5th July: | provided special area for PNH-related content. This area will house information of interest to patients and their relatives, and hyperlinks to clinical information and the PNH discussion forum. | |
| 4th July: | introduced HMDS discussion/message forums in 3 categories: general discussion, case presentations [discussion area for forthcoming case presentations feature], and PNH discussion forum. | |
| June 2000 | ||
| 1st June: | enhanced the Xavatoria search engine by hyperlinking failed search terms to an on-line dictionary (currently Dictionary.com) to check keyword spelling. | |
| April 2000 | ||
| 17th April: | removed case sensitivity from HMDS site search facility, and revised Search Tips page to provide examples more relevant to HMDS site content. | |
| March 2000 | ||
| 27th March: | added new links page with links to external sites of interest. | |
| February 2000 | ||
| 21st February: | expanded site map to provide links to morphology and flow cytometry detail. Added 'Quick search' to navigation menu. | |
| January 2000 | ||
| 29th January: | provided access to AXS site-tracking stats from about the HMDS web-site page. | |
| December 1999 | ||
| 07th December: | replaced 'WhatUseek' search facility on site search page with Mirago's Medisearch external medical search engine. | |
| November 1999 | ||
| 30th November: | moved web-site to new host server (Nildram). | |
| 08th November: | updated Javascript Tree Menu (to version 2.2.2), which now supports Netscape v3 web-browsers. | |
| 03rd November: | introduced the Fluid Dynamics Xavatoria search engine, ranking results in order of relevance and providing summary information to site searches. | |
| October 1999 | ||
| 21st October: | updated links to Molecular Probes handbook in fluorochromes page. | |
| 07th October: | added external search facility powered by whatUseek to site search page. | |
| 06th October: | added Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders page. | |
| September 1999 | ||
| 23rd September: | updated links in references page to return abstracts in Medline's new PubMed format. | |
| 13th September: | site launched. | |
Document last updated: Wednesday, 03 January 2007