Launch of IBD Toolkit for GPs
The RCGP, in partnership with Crohn’s and Colitis UK, has launched an IBD toolkit for GPs and healthcare professionals. Clinical…
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Expanded Range of Instruments with CE Marked Protocols for BÜHLMANN fCAL® turbo assay
BÜHLMANN application specialist Christina Gabris has recently visited the UK to validate some new instrument protocols for the fCAL turbo assay. Christina spent…
Meeting the Demands for Increasing Faecal Calprotectin Tests
Labs are receiving increasing faecal calprotectin tests requests since NICE published Diagnostic Guideline 11: ‘Faecal calprotectin diagnostic tests for inflammatory diseases of…
False Positive Faecal Calprotectin? Don’t Believe It
Read about the work at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, where Louise Asser and her colleagues have been using small bowel…
So How DO You Collect that Awkward Sample?
Poo Collection Made Easy Collecting poo even gets into the daily news! A recent article in the Daily Mail addressed…
Shedding Light from Above: PillCam
Most things in this day and age are getting smaller: crisps, chocolate, computers and now endoscopes. Whilst the traditional endoscope…
Be Powerful in Purple on World IBD Day
Tuesday 19 May is World IBD Day. 300,000 people in the UK and millions more worldwide are living with Crohn’s…
Does NSAID use affect the Faecal Calprotectin Result?
In a word – yes! Is this clinically significant? in another word, no! Most non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) cause gastric…
Sharing Best Practice
The recent Calprotectin Regional User Group meetings, organised by Alpha Laboratories, generated lively and informative discussions between new, experienced and…
NICE Calprotectin!
Faecal calprotectin testing hit the news headlines late last year following publication of the NICE diagnostic guidelines: ‘Faecal calprotectin diagnostic…