Here you will find out about types of careers available to the CLS graduate. As a medical laboratory scientist, you will analyze blood, urine, tissue or other body specimens - these test results play an important role in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease.
This is probably one of the most confusing things in our field. Even in a state like California, where NDs are licensed as medical providers and the term naturopathic doctor is protected by law, people with questionable training can call themselves naturopaths..
Non-communicable disease (NCD) is a medical condition or disease that is non-infectious or non-transmissible. NCDs can refer to chronic diseases which last for long periods of time and progress slowly. Sometimes, NCDs result in rapid deaths such as seen in certain diseases such as autoimmune diseases, heart diseases, stroke, cancers, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, cataracts, and others.