Teaching Centre of the Royal Infirmary, Bristol, on 19 November. It was conducted under the Presidency of Dr. B. Murphy (Torbay Hospital), with Dr. K. A. V. Cartwright (Public Health Laboratory Service, Gloucester) as the local Branch Secretary. The meeting was attended by approximately 50 trainee and consultant pathologists working in the Haematology, Chemical Pathology, Medical Microbiology a...

CONTEXT Laboratory medicine is an integral component of patient care. Approximately 60% to 70% of medical decisions are based on laboratory results. Physicians in specialties that order the tests are teaching medical students laboratory medicine and test use with minimal input from laboratory scientists who implement and maintain the quality control for those tests. OBJECTIVE To develop, impl...

Background and Objective: Infertility refers to the failure in achieving pregnancy of a couple after one year of regular sexual intercourse without using a protection method. The purpose of this research work was to evaluate the current status of the test and quality control performance in semen analysis in selected laboratories. Material and Methods: The...