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Standardized testosterone assays are available and improve accurate diagnosis of hypogonadism and ensure men who need treatment receive it. The use of a testosterone assay that has been certified by the CDC HoST program ensures that the assays have been standardized and “harmonized”; results...

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https://www.bigcitieshealth.org/cdc-funding-harmonize-clinical-lab-testing/ BCHC signed onto a letter led by the Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine urging the House and Senate Appropriations Committee to finalize the FY 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and...

https://myadlm.org/advocacy-and-outreach/comment-letters/2025/supporting-cdc-harmonization-work-to-improve-patient-care Dear Chairs Moore Capito, Aderholt, and Ranking Members Baldwin and DeLauro, As you and your colleagues develop the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Departments of Labor, Health and...

* Dr. Dunaif was a featured speaker at this CDC meeting. “We hope that the CDC initiative will finally lead to accurate testosterone measurements by clinical laboratories almost 20 years after the Endocrine Society position statement. It is exceptionally disappointing that major clinical...

https://chronicdisease.org/2024-partnership-for-the-accurate-testing-of-hormones-path-annual-committee-meeting/ On April 25, 2024, the Division of Laboratory Sciences (DLS) Clinical Standardization Programs (CSP) team in the Clinical Chemistry Branch participated in the 2024 Partnership for...

Conclusions https://www.myadlm.org/science-and-research/scientific-shorts/2024/are-estradiol-assays-accurate-enough-for-clinical-testing Accurate estradiol measurements are important at both low and high concentrations, e.g., for diagnosis of estrogen-producing ovarian and testicular...

Abstract Background The aim of this work was to develop an analytically sensitive, rapid clinical research method for the analysis of free testosterone in serum using a small sample volume. Laboratories have found this difficult, partly due to the inherent low concentrations (less than 3% of...

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-cdc-decade-efforts-standardizing-vitamin.html Vitamin D tests certified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Clinical Standardization Programs (CSP) are well calibrated overall, according to a new study presented at ENDO 2024, the...

Introduction Testosterone is the most abundant circulating androgen in both men and women. It is a biomarker for identifying androgen excess and deficiency, and to monitor their treatment. Measurement of the metabolically active form, free testosterone (FT), has been part of the clinical...

Abstract Stable isotope dilution (SID) methodology coupled with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS) is rapidly becoming the gold standard for measuring estrogens in serum and plasma due to improved specificity, high accuracy, and the ability to conduct a more comprehensive...

Reproductive Endocrinology ODP419 Measurement of Free Testosterone in Serum using Equilibrium Dialysis Coupled with ID-UHPLC-MS/ MS: in Comparison to Calculated FT Hui Zhou, Ph.D., Ashley Ribera, BS, Uliana Danilenko, Ph.D., Otoe Sugahara, BS, and Hubert Vesper, PhD Assessment of free...

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