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Inside Track: Getting the Word Out

To determine how recommendations for chronic kidney disease testing in laboratory and point-of-care environments are shifting, CLP spoke to Robert H. Christenson, PhD, professor of pathology and medical and research technology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and past president of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.

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FDA Authorizes First Commercially Available Screening Test for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency

The Victor EnLite and EnLite Neonatal TREC kit from PerkinElmer is the first commercially available screening test in the United States and Canada for severe combined immunodeficiency, known as “Bubble Boy” disease. Affecting an estimated 1 in 58,000 newborns each year, SCID is an inherited genetic condition that makes it extremely difficult to fight off infections.

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