At their root, human beings seem an eternally optimistic lot. While historians, epidemiologists, and to some extent the rest of us are at least vaguely aware of such things as...

Hyponatremia, defined as a serum sodium concentration of ≤135 mEq/L, is the most common electrolyte disorder encountered in clinical practice, occurring in up to 30% of hospitalized...

More than seven billion clinical lab tests are performed in the United States each year, according to the American Clinical Laboratory Association.1 While most tests are effectively...

Safety lancet for heelsticks MiniCollect PIXIE is a safety lancet designed for capillary blood collection by heelstick. There are three options available with varying incision...

Thermo Fisher Scientific received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to run COVID-19 tests from saliva samples collected with ...

Labcorp received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a combined home collection kit for a test that detects COVID-19 and influenza...

A device that could make it possible for patients to draw their own blood at home was successfully used to collect blood samples for measuring antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, ...

A team of clinician-researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have demonstrated that tests of self-collected saliva provided comparable results to tests performed...

Genesis HealthCare, a national post-acute care provider, announced that it is adopting a universal COVID-19 vaccination requirement for employees, care partners, and onsite vendors...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) for its BD Vacutainer Plus Citrate Plasma Tubes...