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Understanding CLIA and Waived Testing
Proper (CLIA) Waived Lab Testing & Protocols CLIA- Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments is to ensure timeliness, accurate, and reliability in patient testing. This act falls under strict, high quality standards, wherever the tests were performed. This...
How Pharmacogenomics Improves Patient Care
Since 2007, when the FDA acknowledged that a blood-thinning drug's effectiveness (or lack of) could be determined by how a person's unique genetic structure responded to dosage, the medical field has been questioning its trial-by-error methodology. Emerging from...
How to Diagnose the Full Picture of Cardiovascular Health – Part 2
Research Current research shows that combining multiple markers, as these tests do, will help assess patients' risks for cardiovascular problems. Recently, most doctors felt that heart attacks were simply a result of fatty deposits that built up, slowly, on your...
How to Diagnose the Full Picture of Cardiovascular Health – Part 1
If you think that a routine lipid screening will be enough to accurately predict your heart attack risk level, think again. While it's true that getting your cholesterol levels checked does a play an important part in your risk assessment, it does not give you the...
Drug Testing
There are many reasons to have a reputable urine screening laboratory that performs all of your company's urine screenings and urinalysis. There are many benefits to having only one laboratory that provides services, instead of using different ones. Having only one...
Who Needs Opiate Screening Laboratory Services?
Both opiates and opioids will have the same effects in the body since they have similar molecules. The difference between the two is that opiate ingredient molecules are natural while opioid ingredient molecules are manufactured chemically (chemical synthesis). ...
Making decisions for your health: viagra 50mg
There are many drugs. What information families look for when they decide to buy any drugs? Let's try to find answers to certain questions about the matter. What do you already know about online pharmacy viagra? Online drugstores fill hundreds of thousands of online...
Groups That Commonly Drug Test
Many people routinely use drug tests today. Doctors, employers, and law enforcement are the most common. Some parents also choose to drug test their children. We will look at the most common groups of people that drug test and their reasons for doing so. Doctors...
Prescription Drug Abuse – the New Epidemic
“The faster you know, the better you can deal with the situations that arise.” For drug use identification, this quote by Premier Medical Laboratory Services, couldn’t be more accurate. According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, prescription drug abuse...
Drug Screening – Why it Should Be a Necessary Procedure For Employers
The past three decades have seen the increase of people blatantly using drugs for various reasons. While some people just want to get high, others are addicted to a drug they just can’t get off. Irrespective of the reasons, drugs can undermine a person’s performance,...