[Influence of commercial soft drinks or green tea intake to occult blood and sugar tests with urinalysis reagent strips].

Consumption of commercial soft drinks or tea has increased in over recent years. In many case, these drinks contains large amount of ascorbic acid as an antioxidant. We examined the influence of ascorbic acid to the result of urine occult blood and sugar tests with urinalysis reagent strips.

[Participation of medical technologists in the nutrition support team (NST)].

In the nutrition support team (NST), medical technologists take a very important role in carrying out nutrition screening, nutrition assessment and nutrition monitoring. Medical technologists can look at the laboratory data of patients earlier than other NST staff. Using this advantage, the medical technologists can contribute to the NST.