Tools, Technologies and Training for Healthcare Laboratories

Egypt: Challenges in Clinical Chemistry QC Practices

Muhammad Sabry Saleh describes some of the unique challenges of laboratories running QC in Egypt, but finds many more challenges that are universal to labs worldwide. 

Second City, First Wave: Rush University Medical Center

Dr. Nicholas Moore describes the experience of Rush University Medical Center during the first peak of the first wave in Chicago.

In the center of the (US) COVID-19 storm: Interview with Dr. Sam Reichberg

In the center of the COVID-19 storm in New York, Northwell health hospitals and laboratories worked swiftly to bring up testing. Dr. Sam Reichberg explains how it happened.

Interview on Biologic Variation Goals

The 2012 update of the biologic variation database was its most popular yet. It gathered far more downloads and sparked more discussion than previous editions. We put some of those user questions to the group of scientists who compiled the database.  Dr. Maria-Carmen Perich Alsina, PhD, President of the Analytical Quality Commission of the Spanish Society of Clinical Chemistry, and her colleagues provided some answers.

Dr. Carmen Ricos and the Biodatabase

In addition to letting us post another one of her databases, Dr. Carmen Ricos agreed to answer a few questions about the work, the results, and the meaning of all this biologic variation.