The State of Allergy Testing

In this episode of Clinical Lab Chat, CLP’s Director of Business Intelligence, Chris Wolski, interviews Jessica Murphy, MLS(ASCP)CM, senior technical laboratory educator for Thermo Fisher Scientific. Among the topics they tackled:

• Why there has been an increased prevalence of food allergies among the U.S. population in the past few decades.
• How home testing has helped to revolutionize allergy identification—and its potential clinical pitfalls.
• Why primary care physicians are on the allergy testing frontlines.
• How more precise allergy testing will help clinicians and patients manage these conditions.
• Why clinical labs are still critically important for allergy testing.
• What we can expect from allergy testing in the next 5 to 10 years.

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