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Automated multiparameter hematology analyzers are ubiquitous in the clinical laboratory and clinical hematology laboratory settings. Evaluating several parameters at once offers obvious advantages for time and cost savings when running patient ... Read More

In 2001, a prospective randomized trial studying patients in a surgical ICU, where only 13% of patients had a history of diabetes, found that intensive maintenance of normoglycemia (blood glucose between 80 and 110 mg/dL) with insulin infusions ... Read More

For the food and pharmaceutical industries, both regulations and customer expectations shape how processes are run. Stringent legislation demands that products conform as closely as possible to their advertised weight. Read More

Spectrophotometers measure the amount of light of a specific wavelength that is absorbed by a sample. A spectrophotometer is used chiefly to measure the concentration of analytes in solutions, but is also used to characterize liquid and solid ... Read More

The Epstein Barr virus (EBV), which causes infectious mononucleosis (IM) or “mono,” is one of the most common human viruses. EBV occurs worldwide, and most people become infected with EBV sometime during their lives. In the United States, as many as ... Read More

Clinical guidelines from the disciplines of cardiology and laboratory medicine recommend the measurement of cardiac biomarkers as soon as possible in patients who present with suspected myocardial infarction. The measurement of cardiac troponins is ... Read More