The Lab Report

The Lab Report


Latest Episodes

Happy National Medical Laboratory Week!
April 16, 2025

Beyond Clinical Biochemists, Medical Laboratory Technologists and Laboratory Assistants represent the frontline staff in laboratory medicine and are essential to technical operations as they collect b

Data, data, data!
April 04, 2025

In this episode, Dr. Christopher McCudden takes us through the realm of data, informatics and artificial intelligence in medicine outlining the opportunities and challenges of using large amounts of d

Silent threats: Unmasking liver disease through a new blood test
October 18, 2024

In this episode, Drs. Mark Swain and Albert Tsui breaks down the basics of liver health and disease and explains the significant benefits of a new blood-based test for liver fibrosis called FIB4.

Sustainability in laboratory medicine
June 18, 2024

In this first episode of a new series highlighting publications from the official journal of CSCC, Clinical Biochemistry,Drs. Paola Galozzi and Daniela Basso discuss the importance of moving towards

How does health in space affect me?
May 21, 2024

In this episode, Dr. Annie Martin takes us through the Health Beyond Initiative within the Canadian Space Agency on the framework and advancements in astronautical health and how it applies to the gen

Normal here, normal there
March 07, 2024

In this episode, Dr. Mary Kathryn Bohn takes us the concept of harmonizing reference intervals and the efforts across Canadian laboratories to accomplish this for commonly ordered tests.

Celebrating women in clinical biochemistry
October 02, 2023

Following our previous 2-part series of Biochemistry, life and everything in between, we will have an annual tradition to interview current trainees and recent graduates of a clinical biochemistry f

Can this test prove that I have an allergy?
May 16, 2023

In this episode, Dr. Michelle Parker gives us the basics behind allergies and allergy testing as well as demystifying common misconceptions about these specialty laboratory tests.

Labs in the opioid epidemic – Part 3
April 03, 2023

In the final episode of this three-part series, Drs. Daniel Beriault and Sarah Delaney delve deeper into the nuances and challenges with offering a drug checking service and provide us perspective on

Labs in the opioid epidemic – Part 2
March 20, 2023

In this episode, Drs. Daniel Beriault and Sarah Delaney guides us through the principles and philosophy behind harm reduction programs and the necessity of drug checking services to such programs. Alt