Lab Rat or Button Monkey?

It seems the Americans have been looking at various different countries and their health systems. They have concluded that the US is the the worst or second worse on the various different parameters used. According to this survey, the best health system was the NHS. I must read the full report [...]

Found this site which looks at some unusual medical conditions.
http://medtempus.com/archives/top-10-weird-anomalies-in-medicine/

This news item has appeared on the BBC site. I know that people do want to know the sex of their child and this opens the possibility of making this very easy form very early in the pregnancy.
I do hope the concerns about the use of the test to abort unwanted children prove to [...]

I have tried to have a look around the Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics site for training content. I have found this training section. This contains material for the American market but is still broadly applicable to Europe.
The material is well presented but there isn’t much of it. The Vitros 950 is summed up in [...]

I realised the other day that I have forgotten to include the Vitros and Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics in my Industry round up. So I have taken a look around. First impressions are not good.
The main site is http://www.orthoclinical.com/ which then asks for your location. Fair enough. So I then go the UK link, noticing [...]

Found this article on the BBC website.   It seems that the test detects salivary urate.  I know the BBC is aimed at a very technical audience but I would have expected a bit more critical viewing of the technology.  Surely gout would also give rise to high salivary urate levels and gout is a common [...]