MEDLAB Americas marks debut edition at 2017 Florida International Medical Expo

Following 15 years of success in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, and with its recent launch in Europe, MEDLAB - a proven successful exhibition and conference model on an international scale...

60% increase in visitor turnout for 2017 edition of MEDLAB Asia Pacific Exhibition & Congress

With 253 exhibitors, 10 country pavilions, 29 exhibiting countries and 4,025 attendees – constituting a 60% increase in visitor turnout compared to the 2016 edition...

How Best Practice Standards Support Laboratory Accreditation

For the past 15 years, the laboratory medicine field has continued to exponentially evolve from one based on local and national practice to one based on globally harmonised best practices...

Improving Efficiency in the Haematology Laboratory

From educational sessions in the rapid advancements in molecular haematology to the different aspects of haematopathology, coagulation and haemostasis amongst others, the Haematology track at the MEDLAB Americas Exhibition and Congress...

Need of the Hour

Addressing the Challenges of Multi-drug Resistance of Hospital Acquired Infections and the Role of the Laboratory in Lowering the Infection Rates...

Improving Patient Care With Standardised Guidelines

Breakthroughs in cutting-edge, experimental treatments using new pharmaceuticals or procedures often dominate healthcare news...

The Quest For Standardised Laboratory Reporting

Anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) testing is a cornerstone of autoimmune diagnostics. ANA occur in a variety of autoimmune diseases...

Standalone MEDLAB 2017 Opens its Doors

As a stand-alone event this year, MEDLAB Exhibition and Congress is welcoming over 35,000 laboratory professionals to do business with 700 international companies...

Uncertain About Measurement Uncertainty?

As a laboratory professional you know that for every test you run there is an element of uncertainty regarding the result produced...

The Impact of Preanalytical Variables on Sample Quality in Point of Care Testing

Point of care testing (POCT) is defined as any testing that is not conducted in the core laboratory, or a “core-like” laboratory...

Focus on Efficiency

At the recently concluded 34th International Conference of ISBT in Dubai, Roche Diagnostics showcased a number of powerful blood safety innovations...

A Unique Partnership

Medlab Magazine spoke to Dave King, CEO, LabCorp about their partnership with National Reference Laboratory in Abu Dhabi and the latest advancements in the lab...

Mass Spectrometry: Changing the Clinical Lab

Mass spectrometry has historically been limited to research laboratories, but the advent of soft ionization techniques such as electrospray ionization (ESI)...

Quality Management in Point of Care

Managing quality in Point of Care Testing (PoCT) is something quite different to managing quality in the medical laboratory...

AABB Accreditation: Pursuing Quality Management Outcomes

Last year, an AABB-accredited cord blood bank in Dubai, was able to support life-saving treatment of a seven-year old Abu Dhabi boy...

The Broader View Of External Quality Assurance Of Pathology Testing

External quality assessment (EQA) is the challenge of the effectiveness of a laboratory's quality management system, which is a collection of business processes...