Action started against ILLEGAL LABS in BHUJ

WHO laboratory services in Tuberculosis control

Lab services in tuberculosis control provides basic guidelines for health care laboratories about specimen handling, staining, culture and identifcation of mycobacteria in simple step by step manner with colour photographs

Biomedical Waste Disposal Rules India

In light of recent outbreak of Hepatitis B in Modasa, Gujarat due to improper waste disposal by medical professionals and use of used syringes and needles. Which was followed by finding of used syringe storage at many cities in Gujarat. It is important to know the current laws regarding waste disposal in India

I am uploading here Waste disposal rules, 1998 amended 2000 under the environmental act, 1968 in PDF format

It may be useful as a guide to waste disposal for those practicing outside India

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flow cytometry

A brief and concise ppt. about general principles and uses of flow cytometry.

Laboratory Diagnosis of Malaria

I prepared this during my first year of residency, It covers following

Microscopic tests

• Peripheral smear
• Quantitative buffy coat

Non microscopic tests

• Immunochromatographic tests (rapid tests)
• Antibody detection
• flow cytometry
• mass spectometry
• PCR

It is in DOC format

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Medical Algorithm

I found this site while searching for a semen counting method

A Medical Algorithm is any computation, formula, survey, or look-up table, useful in healthcare. More than 10141 algorithms, organized into 45 chapters, are available as spreadsheets on this site, along with direct pubmed search feature for the algorithm

This site is powered by non profit organization institution of algorithmic medicine.

Worth have a look, as this site provides very extensive list of complete algorithms, for example, there are 10 different formulas to differentiate iron deficiency from thalassemia!!

all u want to know about investigating male infertility

hi, especially, to all my juniors who r going to appear in the pg exams.
While searching for testicular biopsy i stumbled upon this article on evaluation of male infertility, and found it both interesting as well as informative and recent. if u have lots of leisure time :0 then take a look at it.

A highly specific marker for early diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis