Much of the blood drawn for laboratory analysis is wasted. In a clinical setting where your blood is being taken multiple times a day, wouldn't it be better for the laboratory to use a smaller amount ...

Patients at Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health's hospitals and clinics across Northern California could soon have their blood drawn a little differently. Instead of sticking a patient with a ...

Extra blood tubes were used for additional testing at a rate of 7%, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Robert M. Humble, BS, MS, from the University of Iowa, and colleagues ...

It’s likely that at some point in your life, you’ll have blood drawn for either a medical test or for donating blood. The process for either procedure is similar and usually much less painful than ...

Medical laboratory testing is the heartbeat of medicine. It provides critical data for physicians to diagnose and treat disease, dating back thousands of years. Unfortunately, laboratory medicine as a ...

Chicago (tca/dpa) — The practice of drawing blood has changed very little over the decades. It looks about the same now as it did 50 years ago. That process, however, may be about to get a modern ...

A laboratory technician places human blood samples on an automated testing line. This laboratory, which operates a fully automated system complete with advanced robotics, can test more than 50,000 ...

Medics jabbing troops with needles for blood tests in remote locations may become a thing of the past thanks to some new technology. A blood-drawing and testing device, developed with the help of the ...

A bruise may appear after a blood draw if small blood vessels are damaged when the needle is inserted or if not enough pressure is applied after the needle is removed. A blood draw (phlebotomy) is a ...

The discovery that blood carries short fragments of DNA, known as cell-free DNA (cfDNA), has opened a new window into biological processes and, in combination with advances in sequencing, is ...