Lab professionals, from assistants and medical lab technicians to medical laboratory scientists and DCLS professionals, work behind the scenes to assist physicians with patient diagnosis and treatment, and disease [...]
Accuracy in lab testing is important—after all, the results of some tests could literally mean life or death for patients. Laboratory professionals want to get the right result the [...]
We tend to be a society of worriers. We worry about our jobs and money, we worry about finding “The One,” we worry about our parents and our spouses [...]
Did you know that North America has the highest drug-related mortality rate in the world, accounting for one in four drug-related deaths globally? In 2017, more than 28,000 deaths [...]
In the public mind, drug tests are frequently and immediately linked to substance abuse. While that association is valid, there are many reasons why a drugs-of-abuse test may be [...]
Nearly everyone is aware of diabetes to some degree, and many of us likely know someone afflicted with the disease-- in 2017, the International Diabetes Federation estimated that globally [...]
By Rodney E. Rohde, PhD Two years ago, I wrote an article for Elsevier Connect titled “ The hidden profession that saves lives.” The article details my journey as [...]
Every day, more than 115 people in the United States die after an opioid overdose. It’s easy to ignore the words “crisis” and “epidemic,” especially in our cable-news infused existence, but [...]
This year on World Heart Day (September 29th), the World Heart Federation is asking for a simple promise: Eat more healthily, get more active, and [...]
The Can’t-Miss Show in the Clinical Laboratory Community The American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) is holding its 70th Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab [...]
Syphilis: From Near-Eradication to Resurgence When it comes to syphilis, most everyone has the same first thought: Wait, didn’t we solve that a while ago? [...]
What is Rheumatoid Arthritis? Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease that occurs when the body’s immune system attacks the body’s tissues. It [...]
In a post on Using Point-of-Care Testing in the Physician’s Office, we discussed the advantages of performing routine lab testing in a Physician Office Lab [...]
Did you know you have the ability to unlock your instruments potential and add assays that are not offered by your instrument manufacturer? This open [...]
In the field of clinical chemistry, most manufacture instruments are intended for use with the manufacturer’s specific packaged and barcoded reagents. This is often referred [...]
Sepsis was identified as the most expensive in-patient cost in U.S. hospitals in 2014, costing nearly $24 billion annually. Each year, over 26 million people [...]
Prostate cancer represents about 27% of all cancers in men, and is the second deadliest form of cancer. Last year, an estimated 26,000 men died [...]
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