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- Mary Jane Gore
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ONLINE Labexplorer.com (www.labexplorer.com) really does live up to its name. It is the equivalent, to my thinking, of a great Table of Contents to the laboratory universe – it may not have all of the meaty information, but it is a useful index in many cases. GLP Webmedia, which is a Kentucky-based Web information technology company, maintains the site. “Our core competency is to link the laboratorian to laboratory specific information”, the site reads. “Our site concentrates on assembling everything relevant to the laboratory profession. By bringing together multiple resources for the Web integration of laboratory medicine, Labexplorer.com enables our visitors to rapidly locate laboratory specific information.”
I don't know how new the site is, but it has a way to go before it is comprehensive. In terms of the articles it offers (written by interested CLSs), the offerings were only four works, on topics from “Phlebotomy” to “Edward Jenner.” The phlebotomy article dealt with the national trend toward nurses taking over this traditional aboratory…
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