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Clinical Chemistry Podcast

This free monthly podcast is offered by Clinical Chemistry. Clinical Chemistry is the leading forum for peer-reviewed, original research on innovative practices in today's clinical laboratory.

Aug 19, 2013

Pregnant women identified as high risk based on the prenatal screen can then undergo invasive procedures such as amniocentesis to confirm the diagnosis. Unfortunately, a large number of women with unaffected pregnancies undergo invasive procedures, putting the fetus at unnecessary risk for miscarriage.


Aug 12, 2013

Maintaining long-term stability of analytical procedures is an important undertaking for clinical laboratories. This process typically includes comparison of current and new reagent lots through paired measurement of patient and control samples, with defined criteria for acceptance and rejection of the new lot.


Aug 6, 2013

Personalized medicine implies that an individual's unique genetic makeup provides key information to guide prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. It's highly probable that no one besides yourself has ever been born or ever will be again with your precise DNA sequence, unless you are an identical twin and even...