The needle glistened as it slid into skin to drain two vials of blood from the arm of Ruth Priem. She didn’t flinch as it pierced her, partly because she knew what to expect. She was a nurse for 50 ...

The blood tests of the future can reveal a lot more about a person's health, from neurodegenerative conditions to age-related diseases, said the Hong Kong clinical pathologist whose pioneering work in ...

Red blood cells sometimes rupture when blood is sent through faulty equipment, such as a dialysis machine. This is called hemolysis. Hemolysis also can occur during blood work when blood is drawn too ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Needle-exchange programs designed to cut injection drug users' risk of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and other infections do seem to reduce needle sharing, but there is ...