This is (supposed to be) a reflective diary by a (not very) anonymous biomedical scientist who works somewhere in the south of England. One day this diary may well be submitted to the Health and Care Professions Council as evidence of ongoing continual professional development....
As
I was peering down the microscope today I found a patient with neutropenia. Not
a massive neutropenia (it was 1.2 “whatever the units are”), and very
little (i.e. nothing) else of note.
The
diagnosis was “tenofovir”
Tenofovir
is an antiviral agent, and one of its side-effects is that it can cause
neutropenia in over ten per cent of people taking it. There’s an article about
that which you can see by clicking here.
I
shall bear this in mind…
This morning I found that the nice people at Diagnostica Stago had sent me their update last week and that it had been filed as “junk email”. You can read their email by clicking here.
There was an interesting snippet about the launch of their new analyser, but I must admit that I saw red when they started talking about this week’s IBMS conference and that they were hosting a champagne reception. I’ve never been a fan of these so-called “scientific conferences” that plague the working life of a biomedical scientist. When I last went to one the “scientific” bit is all very interesting but rarely applicable to our daily round, and the “conference” bit was openly being abused by many as a chance to go out on the beer with their mates in work’s time and at someone else’s expense.
Hopefully things have changed in the meantime?
The nice people at “Transfusion News” sent their update today. All very interesting, but I wish that science would make its mind up. Is convalescent plasma worth using or not? Opinion seems to be changing on a weekly basis…
Covid-19 Convalescent Plasma Neutralizes Variants of Concern Including Omicron | |||
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Enzymatic Treatment of Organ Allografts to Universal Blood Type O | |||
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