Therapeutic Drug and Health Monitoring

Therapeutic drug and health monitoring is of particular importance to ABS Laboratories and we continue to have close ties with the medical and scientific staff within the NHS and related sectors. We have a strong track record in this field with particular regard to supporting nicotine and cotinine analysis in support of smoking cessation,  passive smoking and epidemiological studies.

While advances have occurred in the pharmacological management of some illnesses over recent decades, high rates of poor patient compliance when taking their medication has meant that the practical application of some treatments is highly problematical. Undertaking therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) helps minimise this phenomena and can make for safer and more effective therapies.

Utilising LC-MS, GC-MS and high throughput generic sample extraction methods we continue to support TDM studies, and our trained staff have the experience to deal with queries from general practitioners and prescribing physicians.

Our experience in supporting paediatric medicine is long standing and as such we have developed robust and sensitive assays to deal with the small and often unique samples generated from these studies.

In summary ABS can offer

	Highly sensitive and specific assays.
	High throughput analysis with next day turnaround of data.
	Telephone support for sample enquiry.
	Partnerships with other laboratories to provide drug level and histopathalogical measurements.
	Reporting and trend analysis of study data.