This is a superficial post on point-of-care (POC) testing touching on general background info. This topic and especially “Lab On A Chip (LOC)” has been addressed several times by Dr. Friedman in LabSoftNews (see links tab to the right).
Over a dinner of delicious home-cooked food, my mother, in a perpetual exercise to understand the [...]
Like many people, I dislike the word “verbiage” , but just testing the waters for catchy blog titles. Directly influenced by my PGY year (4) I have been interested in report construction and the use of language to convey diagnostic findings, diagnostic uncertainty, and the interpretation of newer tests such as new molecular tests which [...]
The ASCP daily newsletter dated 10/12/07 had a short paragraph about home kit DNA diagnostics. Risk assessment for tailored treatment plans is a marketing strategy supporting the use of DIY (do-it-yourself) DNA swabs fishing for SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) deemed as high risk in some common diseases such as atrial fibrillation. The current prevalence of [...]
C-Reactive Protein
CRP is a lab test which can used to monitor inflammation. It is a non-organ specific acute phase response protein (acute phase response = pathophysiologic changes which accompany inflammation). It can be used in a variety of clinical settings when an inflammatory process is a concern. CRP levels can rise in acute infection, but [...]
