Physicians and laboratorians must work to reduce use of antiquated clinical laboratory tests. We selected 10 representative tests considered antiquated by most experts in the clinical laboratory ...

It may not be fair that a person can eat a lot of carbs and not gain any weight, but it turns out that there might be a genetic reason behind this. A few years ago, Dr. Sharon Moalem developed a ...

In 1889 Reginald Fitz 1 first described in this journal the pathology and diagnosis of acute pancreatitis. For the subsequent thirty-eight years the diagnosis of the condition remained purely clinical ...

In this prospective multicentre study, a urinary trypsinogen-2 dipstick test was given to 412 patients presenting to the emergency room or hospitalized with acute abdominal pain. Sensitivity and ...