eNews December issue is now available. The issue opens with a farewell by Prof. Pillay, eNews Editor in Chief for the past six years. Following items include a report by IFCC President on the IFCC General Conference “Laboratory medicine: preparing for the 2020’s”, an article about the Clinical Chemistry Trainee Council (CCTC), a focus on Accreditation, highlights of recent events in bioethics, and details for the call for nominations for the Univants Award. Latest news from IFCC Federations and National Associations and the calendar of Congresses close the issue. Subscribe to the eNews to keep up with current activities and news in the laboratory medicine world!

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The IFCC is deeply sad to announce that our great friend and colleague Jill Tate passed away on 4th December. Jill was a well known and respected figure in the international clinical biochemistry community and within the IFCC. Among many other prominent activities, Jill chaired the IFCC Working Group on Troponin I from 2008-2013 and the IFCC Sub-group for harmonisation of reporting of protein electrophoresis and serum free light chains, and quantification of small monoclonal proteins. Jill was a mentor and role model for many Australian and international Clinical Biochemistry colleagues and will be greatly missed.

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The fourth issue of eJIFCC for 2018 is now available. This issue incorporates the second part of a series of manuscripts that were presented at the conference entitled “Laboratory medicine: meeting the needs of the Mediterranean nations”, held in Rome, between July 2-4, 2018, with professor Sergio Bernardini as the Conference President. Articles address the following topics: • Improving efficiency in laboratory medicine; • Perinatal and pregnancy laboratory medicine; • Mediterranean diet and the area’s specific diseases.

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