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 ...

If a medical test result is inconclusive, the sample did not provide enough information to confirm a positive or negative result. A person may need another test. People can have various medical tests ...

Christine Carson is a founder with a financial interest in Cytophenix, a company developing new diagnostic tests. Her work is supported by government funding sources, philanthropy and private ...

A blood osmolality test measures the blood for the concentration of certain dissolved particles. This test can show whether a person has an irregular balance of fluids in their body. Osmolality tests ...

At-home tests for detecting COVID- 19 have certainly been in the news recently. In late December, with the omicron variant of the coronavirus spreading quickly, the White House announced that the ...

The gold standard for detecting the presence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay that is conducted ...

Share on Pinterest Some at-home diagnostic testing companies will now send a mobile phlebotomist to your home for a blood draw. Wagner Okasaki/Getty Images While at-home diagnostic testing is not new, ...

The National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) has issued Guidance document for medical laboratories to ensure quality at the collection centres. The document ...

A doctor's visit often ends with you leaving with a pathology request form in hand. The request form soon has you filling a sample pot, having blood drawn, or perhaps even a tissue biopsy taken. After ...