US expert fails to find abnormality in Ruth Morrissey’s smear slide, court hears

An American cytotechnologist who recently blind-tested Ruth Morrissey’s smear slide which was sent to MedLab in 2012 has told the High Court she did not find anything that looked like an abnormality.

The President of the Wisconsin Society of Cytology, Coleen Stowe, was giving evidence on behalf of the US laboratory MedLab in the continuing action by terminally ill Ruth Morrissey who has sued over the alleged misreading of her smear slides in 2009 and 2012 by two different US laboratories and which were taken under the CervicalCheck screening programme.