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What COVID-19 Vaccination Means for Blood Donors

Did you recently get your COVID-19 jab, or are planning to get it soon? You might be wondering if you can donate blood after being vaccinated. The answer is yes. However, the process and eligibility requirements will vary depending on where you want to donate blood. In this blog, we will talk about the differences...

What to Expect When Donating Blood in 2021

Are you interested in contributing to research studies into saving lives, especially during the COVID-19 crisis? If so, do you know what to expect when donating blood in 2021, what you should be doing before your blood donation, and finally, what the health benefits of donating blood are? Look no further. We at Solomon Park...

The SARS-CoV-2 Virus: How Convalescent Plasma Could Help Fight COVID-19

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is the novel coronavirus responsible for the devastating scenario that we, the citizens of the world, currently find ourselves in. Without going into too much detail, and as most people know by now, the SARS-CoV-2 virus first appeared in Wuhan, China, in the last days of 2019. It rampaged through the world...

Convalescent Plasma versus COVID-19: Finding the Way Forward

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates Socrates, an Ancient Greek philosopher, was widely considered one of the three most influential philosophers, along with Plato and Aristotle, in Ancient Western philosophy. And based on a study of his life...

The Army and Standardized Lipid Testing

I was never certain where Colonel H. got our name. We were just starting out as a small company at the time with limited contacts, but he had heard about us from someone and wanted Solomon Park to make a proficiency testing program for him (for him meant the US Army clinical laboratory system in...

The History of the Lipid Standardization Program

The lipid standardization program (LSP) controls have been produced by Solomon Park Research Laboratories since 1995 using a procedure (the CLSI C37-A) that ensures commutability of testing for lipids to the serum in these materials. These materials are further distinguished by having the analytes of interest, in this case lipids and more recently lipoproteins, measured...

Dead Rat in the Corner and the Hunt for Truth

As with all researchers, at least the ones I have been around, the search for truth in their experimental outcomes is very dependent on what they expect to happen when they pour solution A into solution B. This is usually based on a reading of the literature about solutions A & B and also very...

Peer Pressure and Barefoot in Germany

When my family and I first arrived in Germany we spoke about 50 words in German among us. We got there on a Saturday and my new boss picked us up at the airport and quickly drove us down to Tuebingen. He explained on the way that all shops closed at noon on Saturdays and...

A Brief History of the C37-A Commutable Serum

One of the barriers to standardizing results across laboratories has been the variety of instruments and reagents that different laboratories use to generate patient results. Early on, this forced proficiency testing and regulatory agencies to establish peer groups among laboratories being tested. The idea being that the user of a particular instrument would be judged against other...

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