Lab Rat or Button Monkey?

I saw a worrying story on the BBC health site today. It concerns chlamydia screening in the UK.   It seems the story is based on some research which can be found here.  A provional PDF of the research can be found here (Note this link may break in the future).  As the BBC article points out, chlamydia [...]

I am currently working on a series of lectures for the Medical Laboratory Assistants in our laboratory.  The lecture series is designed  to provide some background for the MLA on the various tests we perform and hopefully help them to understand some the clinical details they might see to help them in test requesting. Xanthochromia [...]

I have finally got some time to write a review for the Vitamin D podcast from  Clinical Chemistry. The interview isn’t too long and does not go into great technical depth but is a great listen and I certainly learned a few things from listening to it.  I knew that there are two different sources [...]

I have been re-examining the content of the training site and realised I could add some extra RSS feeds to the front page.  I have added feeds from the Department of Health and the NHS. I hope these extra feeds prove to be a good resource.  If any one can suggest other suitable feeds, I [...]

I have been looking at my training site and updating a few things and in the process I have found several sources of podcasts!  The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has an audio podcast as well as some vidoes. Also, I found the the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, the people behind the Clinical Chemistry journal, [...]

Too much water can be a bad thing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7521137.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7525932.stm

Whilst playing around with Google Ads for the site, it came up with a CPD site from the BMJ which I thought I would have a look at.  It can be found here if you want a look too.

BBC Health are reporting that waiting times under labour are up. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7271772.stm

Been looking at the BBC Health website and found some news items which I would like to bring to your attention. The first story is a protest about the NHS refroms. As someone who works in the NHS, I do feel that we should focus on primary role of patient care rther than all of [...]