Clinical Chemistry




New Supermix Controls to Streamline QC in Clinical Laboratories
Two new liquid assayed chemistry controls have been designed to streamline quality control by cutting the number of individual QCs a laboratory needs to run in routine medical testing, saving time and money while ensuring highly accurate results and patient diagnosis. More...20 Mar 2014

Photometric Tests for Common Electrolytes Provide High-Precision Alternative
As a high quality, reliable alternative or compliment to ion-selective electrode-based diagnosis, new photometric tests for sodium, potassium, and chloride provide accurate and precise results over a wide linear range, and are applicable to almost any clinical chemistry analyzer. More...19 Mar 2014
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