Theranos phenomenon – part 3

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Editorial
3. Protein S100B: from cancer diagnostics to the evaluation of mild traumatic brain injury
4. Reviews
5. Capillary electrophoresis based on nucleic acid detection for diagnosing human infectious disease
6. Oxidative damage and the pathogenesis of menopause related disturbances and diseases
7. Opinion Paper
8. EFLM WG-Preanalytical phase opinion paper: local validation of blood collection tubes in clinical laboratories
9. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
10. Effective quality management practices in routine clinical next-generation sequencing
11. Analysis of PMP22 duplication and deletion using a panel of six dinucleotide tandem repeats
12. A novel exonuclease (TaqMan) assay for rapid haptoglobin genotyping
13. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
14. Heparinate but not serum tubes are susceptible to hemolysis by pneumatic tube transportation
15. Criteria of adequacy for vitamin D testing and prevalence of deficiency in clinical practice
16. A simple clot based assay for detection of procoagulant cell-derived microparticles
17. Measurement of factor XIII (FXIII) activity by an automatic ammonia release assay using iodoacetamide blank-procedure: no more overestimation in the low activity range and better detection of severe FXIII deficiencies
18. Immunoassay or LC-MS/MS for the measurement of salivary cortisol in children?
19. Head to head evaluation of the analytical performance of two commercial methotrexate immunoassays and comparison with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and the former fluorescence polarization immunoassay
20. Reference Values and Biological Variations
21. Preanalytical, analytical, gestational and pediatric aspects of the S100B immuno-assays
22. Establishment of reference intervals of clinical chemistry analytes for the adult population in Saudi Arabia: a study conducted as a part of the IFCC global study on reference values
23. First data on the biological variation and quality specifications for plasma ammonia concentrations in healthy subjects
24. Cancer Diagnostics
25. Hypermethylation of DLX4 predicts poor clinical outcome in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome
26. Cardiovascular Diseases
27. Galectin-3, osteopontin and successful aging
28. Platelet volume is associated with the Framingham risk score for cardiovascular disease in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)
29. Infectious Diseases
30. Diagnostic values of CD64, C-reactive protein and procalcitonin in ventilator-associated pneumonia in adult trauma patients: a pilot study
31. Corrigendum
32. Corrigendum to: Accuracy of GFR estimating equations combining standardized cystatin C and creatinine assays: a cross-sectional study in Sweden
33. Letters to the Editor
34. Theranos phenomenon – part 3
35. Biological variation of high sensitivity cardiac troponin-T in stable dialysis patients: implications for clinical practice
36. Biological variation of high sensitivity cardiac troponin-T in stable dialysis patients: implications for clinical practice
37. Impact of specimen mixing methods on presepsin point-of-care test results using whole blood
38. Clinical laboratories have a critical role in test strip lot management in glucose point-of-care testing
39. Hemoglobin A₂-Leuven (α₂δ₂ 143(H21) His>Asp): a novel delta-chain variant potentially interfering in hemoglobin A_1c measurement using cation exchange HPLC
40. Eryptosis is induced by hyperthermia in hereditary spherocytosis red blood cells
41. Investigation of sensitivity for coagulation factor deficiency in APTT and PT: how to perform it?
42. Underestimation of hepcidin concentration by time of flight mass spectrometry and competitive ELISA in hepcidin p.Gly71Asp heterozygotes
43. Congress Abstracts
44. ISMD2016 Eleventh International Symposium on Molecular Diagnostics