Month: October 2005

Quantimetrix Corp’s Lipoprint® HDL System, a new medical test awaiting US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance, can resolve up to 10 subfractions of HDL cholesterol. These subfractions are grouped into three main subclasses: HD

SCC Soft Computer’s SoftBank II, a transfusion service management system, combines high-performance functionality with new features to provide a comprehensive, cost-efficient pretransfusion testing and inventory-management solution. The syste

Many of us want simple, black-and-white answers when it comes to our health. Give us the good and the bad, and tell us how long we’ll live. Take cholesterol readings, for instance. The last time I had my cholesterol checked, I was told that m

By Tracey Shaw, MT(ASCP), and Jean Sapere, MT(ASCP) Last year, our laboratory at Inland Hospital in Waterville, Me, began a quest to evaluate a new rapid test for C.difficile A/B after we noticed an increase in physician requests to test for both