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Helen Murray Free with her husband and scientific collaborator Alfred in 1955 Credit: BAYER  Helen Murray Free, who has died aged 98, was the co-developer, with her husband Alfred Free, of Clinistix, the first dip-and-read diagnostic test for diabetes and for monitoring glucose levels in urine, an achievement that revolutionised diagnostic testing. Before the introduction of Clinistix in 1956, laboratory technicians tested for diabetes by adding a reagent to urine in a test tube and then heating the mixture over a Bunsen burner, a process that was not only cumbersome but also imprecise beca...

  Scientists are to meet in Accra to deliberate on ways to strengthen West Africa's diagnostic and research environment to combat infectious diseases. The long term impact of COVID-19 patients treatment on the fight against drug resistance in West Africa is one of the many issues that will engage the attention of West African scientists when they converge in Accra, Ghana, from 21st to 22nd April for CelebrateLAB West Africa 2021 Conference. With no known treatment for COVID-19, antibiotics are used globally in patients’ management, even where there is no confirmed co-infection requiring an...

COVID-19: Medical laboratory council committed to quality service delivery ― Registrar COVID-19: Medical laboratory council committed to quality service delivery ― Registrar Share The Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) has reiterated its commitment towards the ideal of quality service delivery within the health laboratory system in the country to make every citizen have access to accurate and reliable medical laboratory test results, especially during the COVID -19 pandemic. The Registrar and the Chief Executive officer of the MLSCN, Dr Tosan Erhabor, who stated this d...

COVID -19: Medical Laboratory Council committed to quality service delivery — Registrar On Dayo Johnson – Akure The Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) said its committed to quality service delivery within the health laboratory system in the country. It noted that this would make every citizen have access to accurate and reliable medical laboratory test results especially during the COVID -19 pandemic. The Registrar and the Chief Executive officer of the MLSCN, Dr. Tosan Erhabor said this during the 9th induction ceremony of 65 qualified Medical Laboratory Scientists of...

Exposing the other examiners would have judgment made by the preliminary examiner would guarantee bias. so the examiner is elaborately trained not to produce any potential bias. >> it's -- i take it, it's well recognized that there can be that bias that someone who listens to something at the same time someone else is may be influenced by the impression or the opinion of the person sitting next to them. >> there is always danger of biasing others. >> and in your setting, you would not tolerate that? >> that is correct. >> that's not just good laboratory practice, i take it. that would also be ...