Category Archives: General

Laboratory testing serves as the backbone of diagnosis and treatment in the healthcare industry, playing a vital role in the early detection of diseases, monitoring patient progress, and guiding therapeutic decisions. The integrity of these tests is non-negotiable. This is where the critical role of quality control in laboratory testing comes into sharp focus. Solomon...

Your thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland found at the base of your neck. It’s responsible for producing the thyroid hormone, which is one of the most important hormones that influence how your body functions. An imbalance in thyroid hormone levels can impact many aspects of your body, such as your weight, energy level, mood, bowels,...

Laboratory measurements need to be accurate to ensure that patients receive the best care and disease management solutions. This is why material needs to be commutable before it is used as ‘reference’ material. What does ‘reference’ mean? The meaning of ‘reference’ will depend on how it is used: Most laboratories perform medical testing, but if...

No matter what field you are in, if you run an instrument that measures anything—the speed of a car on a radar gun, the heat of an oven that bakes perfect pizzas or, in our case, the amount of cholesterol (or other analytes) in a vial of serum; you need to do a few things...

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...

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...

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...

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...