Dr Chung Shun โCSโ Ho, pioneer in mass spectrometry, gives an overview of how the technology and its associated tools have evolved from his 1995 debut. In this episode of Leaders in Conversation with Ronald Lo, General Manager of Roche Diagnostics Hong Kong, Dr Ho recounts how mass spectrometry started from a niche discipline to […]
Dengue cases have surged worldwide during the 2023-24 outbreak season, with the WHO reporting close to a historic high of over five million cases and more than 5000 dengue-related deaths in over 80 countries. [1] Dengue is capable of causing a transfusion-transmitted infection, with several case reports, including a case of severe dengue haemorrhagic fever.
Beyond the bite: why blood transfusion safety matters amidst the global dengue surge Read More ยป
In this fourth issue of The Value of Diagnostics interview series, Professor Li Xia highlights the specialised role of the Geriatric Psychiatry Department at the Shanghai Mental Health Center in managing cognitive impairment. Unlike neurology departments that focus primarily on cerebrovascular or neurological causes, this department offers “whole-course management” encompassing cognitive function, emotional well-being, and
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Dr Ain and Dr Farhan, Principal Doctors at Poliklinik Ar Razi in Kuantan, Malaysia, discuss the transformative impact of Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) on their 24-hour primary care facility. Serving a community of approximately 2,000 patients monthly, the clinic manages a split of chronic non-communicable diseases โ e.g. diabetes and hypertension โ and acute communicable illnesses.
The value of rapid diagnostics: spotlighting POCT in Malaysia’s Poliklinik Ar Razi Read More ยป
Professor Tawesak Tanwandee, Professor of Gastroenterology at Mahidol Universityโs Siriraj Hospital, sits down to discuss how the HCV dual assay helps to streamline diagnosis and reduce patient dropout.ย The HCV dual assay represents a significant shift from conventional screening by providing independent antigen and antibody results from a single test that delivers results in under
In healthcare, the margin between life and death is measured by timely and precise clinical intervention. With diagnostics influencing the vast majority of clinical decisions [1], the laboratory serves as the definitive point of clarity โ where clinical certainty calls, the lab answers.ย To meet surging testing demands, labs are pivoting to total lab automation
The viral infection known as dengue is an increasing public health threat. In 2024, the World Health Organisation received reports of 14.6 million cases of this mosquito-borne virus โ a historic high, with infections endemic in more than 100 countries [1]. That number is presumed to be a significant undercount; experts estimate that there are
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Across the Asia Pacific region, the patient care journey for a dengue infection varies significantly depending on the structure of the local healthcare system [1]. The primary divide stems from whether care is delivered via a centralised model or a community-based model [1]. Delivering appropriate care for patients infected with the dengue virus is increasingly
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์ด๋ฒ Leaders in Conversation ์ํผ์๋์์๋ Roche Diagnostics India์ Rishub Gupta ์ด๊ด ๋งค๋์ ๊ฐ Agilis Diagnostics์ ๋ถ์ฌ์ฅ์ธ Kunal Sharma ๋ฐ์ฌ์ ํจ๊ป ์ธ๋ ์๋ฃ ๋ถ์ผ์์ ๋์งํธ ๋ณ๋ฆฌํ๊ณผ ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ์ ํ์ ์ ์ธ ์ญํ ์ ๋ํด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋๋ค. ์ข ์ข “์ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ”๋ก ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๋ Sharma ๋ฐ์ฌ๋ ์ข ์ํ ๋ถ์ผ์์์ ๋ฆฌ๋์ญ๊ณผ Agilis์ ๊ด๋ฒ์ํ ์คํ์ค ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ฅผ ๋์งํธํํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ทธ์ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ ๋ํด ์์ธํ ์ค๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋์งํธ ๋ณ๋ฆฌํ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ธฐ์
์น๋ฃ์ ์์ด ํต์ฌ์ ์ธ ์์์ ๊ณผ์ ๋ ํํ ๋ค์๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ์ธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ผ๋ก ์์ฝ๋ฉ๋๋ค: ์ผ๋ง๋ ๋ง์ ์์ ์ฝ๋ฌผ์, ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ค๋ซ๋์ ํฌ์ฌํด์ผ ํ๋๊ฐ? ๋๋ฌด๋ ์ค๋ซ๋์ ์ง์ ํ ์ ๋ฐ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ํฅํ ์ด๋ง์ ๊ณ ์ ๋ ์ผ๊ด ํฌ์ฌ ๋ฐฉ์๊ณผ ์๋์ ๋ค๋จ์ด์ง ์ฝ๋ํ(PK) ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ํ๊ณ์ ๋ถ๋ชํ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์๋ฌผํ์ ์ ์ ๋ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์ ์ฝ ํํฉ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์ฒจ๋จ ์์ฝํ์ ๋์ํ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋ถ์ ํฉํ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์ง๋ ์ฒด๊ณ์์ต๋๋ค.ย ํ์ง๋ง ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ณํ์ํค๊ณ ์๋
Lab Insights์ ์ต์ ๋ด์ค ๋ฐ ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ ๊ตฌ๋
๋งค์ฃผ 3,000๋ช ์ด์์ HCP๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ ํธ์งํจ์ผ๋ก ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ์์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
