Your blood is a delicate mixture. Researchers and clinicians often use blood to learn what’s going on inside our bodies, in part because siphoning off a tube of blood is easier and less painful than ...

While many other areas in the practice of medicine have been augmented by increasingly sophisticated technology, phlebotomy – the practice of drawing blood for laboratory analysis – has remained ...

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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 makeover. Several health ...

Frequent blood draws have been a dreaded feature of IVF for decades. To retrieve eggs for in vitro fertilization (IVF), a patient must endure a half-dozen or more blood draws over two weeks to measure ...

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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 ...

Tasso cofounders Erwin Berthier and Ben Casavant at the company's Seattle factory. What if you could draw blood at home rather than having it done at the doctor’s office? That’s the premise of Tasso, ...

A shortage of volunteers, nurses, technicians to draw blood and other resources have forced the American Red Cross to call for help during what officials are calling the "worst blood shortage in more ...

Editor’s note: this story has been updated to include more details about the history of direct blood transfusion. The Navy is churning out corpsmen who are trained in an effective blood transfusion ...

From stress to dehydration, there are many reasons why some people's veins may be "hard to find" when they're getting an infusion or blood draw. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...