Laboratory Medicine in India, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
Laboratory Medicine in India, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Author: T. F. Ashavaid

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2012-06-28

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1455744123

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This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine on the topic of Laboratory Medicine in India will be Guest Edited by Tester F. Ashavaid, PhD, FACB, CSCi, and include the following article topics: Tuberculosis; Malaria; STIs and Dengue; Visceral Leishmaniasis; Neglected Tropical Diseases; Hepatitis; HIV; Diabetes; Cardiovascular diseases; Stroke; HPV / Cervical screening; Multiple congenital anomalies; Down Syndrome/Thalessemia; Muscle dystrophy; Spinal muscular atrophy; Wilson Disease; Hemophilia; National and International Accreditation; Blood Banking regulations; Distant Testing; Clinical Trials; Medical Tourism; International Reference labs; and Diagnostics in diet.

Toxicology Testing, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
Toxicology Testing, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Author: Michael G. Bissell

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2012-09-28

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1455747874

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This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, titled Toxicology Testing, includes the following topics; Progress in Clinical Toxicology Testing, The Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic, Substance Abuse Among Healthcare Professionals, Pain Management Drug Testing, Ethanol Biomarkers, Newly-emerging Drugs of Abuse, Synthetic Cannabinoids, Synthetic Cathenones, Immunoassay Methodology in Drugs-of-abuse Testing, Toxicology Testing in Alternative Specimen Matrices, Principles and Procedures in Postmortem Toxicology, and Pharmacogenetics and the Future of Toxicology Testing. Advances in toxicology testing are paving the way for major improvements in the way scientists evaluate health risks posed by toxic chemicals. Toxicity tests help scientists better understand how the human body carries out normal functions that are key to maintaining health. Therefore, this topic is important to the field of Laboratory Medicine.

NanoOncology, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
NanoOncology, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Author: Kewal Jain

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2012-03-28

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1455742899

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This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine includes the following topics: Detection of cancer biomarkers by cerium oxide nanoparticles; Quantum dot-based assays for cancer biomarkers; Monoclonal antibody conjugated fluorescent magnetic nanoparticles for in vivo diagnosis of cancer; RNA quantification with gold nanoprobes for cancer diagnostics; Nanostructured silica materials for imaging in cancer; and Nanoparticle-based cancer cell sorting.

Mass Spectrometry, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
Mass Spectrometry, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Author: Nigel Clarke

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2011-12-28

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1455712019

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This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, Guest Edited by Nigel Clarke, MD, and Andrew Hoofnagle, MD, will focus on Mass Spectrometry, with topics including: Proteins; Peptides; Small Molecules: Toxicology; Small Molecules: Diagnostics; and Regulatory Considerations.

Clinical Cytogenetics, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
Clinical Cytogenetics, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Author: Caroline Astbury

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2011-12-28

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1455709352

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This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, Guest Edited by Caroline Astbury, PhD, FACMG, will focus on Cytogenetics, with topics including: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Acute lymphocytic leukemia; Acute myelogenous leukemia; Chronic myelogenous leukemia; Plasma cell myeloma; Lymphomas; Solid tumors; Myelodysplastic syndromes; SNP arrays in clinical practice; Prenatal arrays; FISH (including Paraffin-embedded (PET) FISH); New and old microdeletion and microduplication syndromes; Sex chromosome and sex chromosome abnormalities; Autosomal aneuploidy; Microarray-CGH interpretation and Genomic Integrity; Structural chromosome rearrangements and complex chromosome rearrangements; and UPD/imprinting.

Conceptual Advances in Pathology, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
Conceptual Advances in Pathology, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Author: Zoltan Oltvai

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2012-12-28

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1455747866

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This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine titled, "Conceptual Advances in Pathology" addresses the key factors impacting pathology and details the technology surrounding the field. The Guest Editor, Zoltan Oltvai, MD., splits the issue into three sections; Technological Advances, Process Advances, Educational and Practice Needs, and the Business of Pathology.

Toxicology and Drug Testing, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
Toxicology and Drug Testing, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Author: Martin H. Bluth

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2016-11-16

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 032347795X

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This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, edited by Dr. Martin Bluth, will cover a wide array of topics related to drug testing and toxicology. Experts will discuss common drugs in analgesia, toxicology techniques, errors and interferences in toxicology testing, toxicology considerations in pain and addiction medicine, toxicology in reproductive endocrinology, forensic toxicology, and toxicology in emergency medicine, among others.

Diagnostic Testing for Enteric Pathogens, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
Diagnostic Testing for Enteric Pathogens, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Author: Alexander J. McAdam

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2015-06-14

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0323388957

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This issue on Diagnostic Testing for Enteric Patholgens is led by two experts in the field of clinical pathology: Alexander J. McAdam and Collette Fitzgerald. Topics include Salmonella, Shigella and Yersinia; Escherichia coli; Campylobacter; Clostridium difficile; Use of markers of intestinal inflammation for diagnosis of infectious gastroenteritis; Antibiotic susceptibility testing of bacteria that cause gastroenteritis; Norovirus; Rotavirus; Intestinal Abebae; Intestinal coccidia and cryptosporidium; Intestinal microsporidia; and Multiplex PCR tests for gastroentieritis. An added features of this issues a Q and A on a controversial area in clinical microbiology, related to STI testing. Several participants from different fields each answer the same series of questions; specialists from clinical laboratory medicine, public health and clinical patient care participate. Each question is introduced by the lead Editors.

Emerging Pathogens, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
Emerging Pathogens, An Issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Author: Nahed Ismail

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2017-05-06

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0323530168

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This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, edited by Drs. Nahed Ismail, A. William Pasculle, and James Snyder, will cover a wide variety of Emerging Pathogens. Topics covered in this issue include, but are not limited to West Nile Virus; Zika Virus; Ebola and Marburg Heamorrhagic Fever; Rift Valley Fever; Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriacae; Closteridium Difficuile; and Chikungunya, among others.

Global Health and Pathology, An Issue of the Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
Global Health and Pathology, An Issue of the Clinics in Laboratory Medicine

Author: Dan Milner

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2018-02-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0323581595

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This issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, edited by Dr. Dan Milner, will focus on Global Health and Pathology. Topics include, but are not limited to: Clinical Laboratory Volunteerism, Pathologists Overseas; Anatomic Pathology Volunteerism; Funding Strategies in Research and Global Pathology; Diagnostics for Cancer and Health Systems building through pathology laboratories; Training the next pathologists in global health; Maximizing internet resources for improving pathology/lab medicine in LMICs; Pathology-based research in Africa; HIV and Cancer: Role of Pathology in success; Lymphoma and Pathology in Africa: Current approaches and future diagnostics; Laboratory Capacity as a tool for building health systems; Building Cross Country Networks for Laboratory Capacity and improvement; Lab accreditation; Practical success in Telepathology experiences in Africa; Pathology and WHO vision of the future of LMICs; Breast Cancer in LMICs: Why we need pathology and clinical trial capability to solve this challenge; Cytopathology in LMICs: why and how to integrate to capacitate healthcare; and Biorepositories and Data Cores for Research in Global Health.