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.

Platinum-Free Systemic Therapy in First-Line Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma: Mirage or Oasis in the Platinum Desert? Cancer predictive or diagnostic assays, offered as Laboratory-Developed Tests ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing to step up its oversight of a growing category of medical tests called laboratory-developed tests. The FDA approves and clears many types of lab tests ...

Diagnostic test developers, including clinical laboratories, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with inspiring creativity to meet patient testing needs. These developers found unique ways to enable ...

Momoko Osuga is a medical laboratory technologist with a specialty in hematology, which is the study of blood and its components. She is one of the many laboratory professionals that play an important ...

Mohana Ravindranath is a freelance health, science, and tech journalist and a 2025 Association for Health Care Journalists fellow. She was previously a Bay Area health tech correspondent for STAT.

One of the most rapidly accelerating health trends today is direct-to-consumer lab testing, in which users pay a company for a certain test, collect their own mouth or nasal swabs, finger-prick blood ...

A few weeks ago, when we revisited Eric Topol's top 10 digital health predictions, Topol mentioned microfluidics -- and the ability to create home versions of medical lab tests -- as one of the ...

Learn why cytotoxicity test failures are common in medical devices and discover systematic approaches to identify root causes ...

The first anniversary of Michigan Tech’s COVID-19 testing lab comes during the annual Medical Laboratory Professionals Week. One year ago, if you’d asked the people responsible for setting up the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — While health leaders are keeping eye on a new COVID-19 variant, many medical laboratories are struggling to keep up with the pandemic, already. COVID-19 case numbers peak, Central ...