Clinical Chemistry

My Lab: Specialist Clinical Biochemistry

Associate Practitioner Edna Rodrigues gives a guided tour of her laboratory at North West London Pathology.

My lab: The foodborne pathogens reference service

Healthcare Scientist Sacha Bhuchar gives a guided tour of the Foodborne Pathogens Reference Service at UKHSA Colindale in London.

Tech news: April 2023

This month's top tech news stories

Blood sugar monitoring devices

A US study examining the use by older adults of continuous glucose monitors and other wearable devices found issues with wearability and use.

My lab: Covering a huge geographical area

Senior Biomedical Scientist Robyn Wilson gives a guided tour of point-of-care testing for NHS Tayside.

New test for psychotropic substance

According to recent studies, sexual assault with chemical submission of victims already accounts for 20.9% of cases.

Haematuria and chronic kidney disease

Data from a large South Korean cohort show a five-fold increased risk of incident chronic kidney disease (CKD) for adults with persistent haematuria, compared with those with no haematuria.

Lessons learnt opening (and closing) a Covid-19 lab

UK Scientific Advisor Bamidele Farinre looks back over the set-up and decommission of the June Almeida laboratory.

My lab: Toxicology in Sheffield

Azuma Kalu and Dean Tazzyman give a guided tour of the toxicology laboratory at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

BJBS synopsis: issue 1 2022

Deputy Editor Guy Orchard provides a brief glimpse of the articles on offer in the first issue of 2022.

Graves disease

This is the fifth in a series of short biographies of persons whose names are directly used for diseases, conditions or syndromes familiar to those in clinical pathology laboratories.

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