I reassured him and sent him to get another blood specimen drawn without a tourniquet. Why? Because I suspected that the ...

When you bring a measurement instrument to a calibration lab, you assume that your instrument will come back within expected tolerances. But, how do you know? That's where laboratory proficiency tests ...

Hoping to catch serious illnesses early, more Americans are ordering lab tests online, but their doctors don't know what to ...

BALTIMORE, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests out-of-range lab test interpretations depend upon on how much experience a physician has accumulated. Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers ...

Inside one transparent plastic container on a rack of shelves is someone’s big toe. Inside another, someone else’s uterus. In the complex and bureaucratic health care system, this bright room and its ...

Medical laboratory scientists collect samples and perform lab tests, calibrate and maintain equipment, and perform statistical analysis. Their work is crucial for clinicians to diagnose diseases.

Except in rare mutation-inducing events, the primary sequence of an individual's somatic genome is static. Thus, in contrast with clinical laboratory tests designed to monitor dynamic physiology, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. One of the most rapidly accelerating health trends today is direct-to-consumer lab testing, ...

Dr. Miller: How worried do you need to be when you receive your lab results in the mail or online before your physician's had a chance to talk to you about them? I'm Dr. Tom Miller and we're going to ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced its clinical informatics platform Alissa Interpret has been adopted by the North West Genomic Laboratory Hub ...