The need for understandable and transparent pricing for medical services in the U.S. has increased in urgency with the continuing rise of out-of-pocket healthcare costs. Americans are delaying ...

California hospital opens microbiology lab at Good Samaritan in San Jose to speed infection diagnoses and support antibiotic ...

Ambient temperature influences the results of some of the most used laboratory tests, and these distortions likely affect medical decision making, such as whether to prescribe medications, researchers ...

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.

This story was originally published on May 17, 2015, as part of the "Hidden Errors" project. Everyone assumes lab results are correct. For Kenneth Drew, the results showed he had HIV in 2011. By the ...

A medical laboratory scientist (MLS), also known as a medical technologist or clinical laboratory scientist, works in a medical laboratory analyzing a variety of biological specimens. They are ...

PRINCETON — People needing to have their blood drawn for medical tests now have a more convenient place to get this procedure done. During a brief ceremony Tuesday, WVU Medicine Princeton Community ...