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LabTestPortal.com is a dedicated resource for consumers and healthcare professionals. The information provided on this portal will help you better understand clinical laboratory medicine and also provide resources to healthcare professionals to better serve their patient population. Lab Test Interpretation provides consumers a description of the most commonly ordered lab tests with test descriptions, reference ranges and insight on abnormal results.
Current Medical Technology News
27 October 2008
Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) is announcing the one thousandth installation of its On-Board ImagerŪ image-guidance system for targeted radiotherapy at Kantonsspital in Lucerne, Switzerland..
Sensitive Ultrasound To Spot Early-Stage Cancer,
Spiration, Inc. Receives First FDA Approval For Bronchial Valve
Laboratory news
Advantages of an LIS extend beyond bottom line benefits, By Steward Macis.
Tips to laboratory data integration are revealed, By Steward Macis ...
Attendees at CAP '08 were prepared for the future of medicine. By Kerri Penno.
Improvements focus on thorough education and continual training.
By Kelly J. Graham
Current Health News
Tociluzumab Quick And Effective For Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD
An international trial found that the new drug tociluzumab, when given in combination with methotrexate, was fast, effective and reasonably tolerated compared to placebo in treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis that...
Simple Test To Predict Pre-Eclampsia In Sight
Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD
A team of UK researchers has found that women who develop pre-eclampsia in pregnancy have lower than normal levels of a marker protein in their blood at the three-month stage and this could open the door to developing a...
Prostate Cancer Risk Did Not Reduce With Vitamin E And Selenium
Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD
An initial independent review of data from a study looking at whether selenium and vitamin E supplements prevented prostate cancer found they had no benefit, taken either together or alone...
