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 ...

In early February 2020, Kirsten St. George and her team at New York state's public health lab received a test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to diagnose people infected ...

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 ...

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, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. One of the most rapidly accelerating health trends today is direct-to-consumer lab testing, ...

Good doctors are a bit like good detectives. They use their wits, informed by training and experience, to track down the precise cause or causes of a patient’s symptoms and recommend the best ...

Most common blood work costs between $30 and $120 per test. But if you have insurance, you will probably pay less. Office and lab fees might raise the price of testing. The total cost for blood work ...

Photo demonstrates tear sample collection with a Schirmer strip for testing of biomarkers associated with breast cancer. The methods for detecting breast cancer have not developed much during the last ...

GPT-5 has for the first time demonstrated it can do the kind of lab work that opens up a pathway for AI to take a bigger role ...

Allina Health’s shift of outpatient lab work to a for-profit company over the past week has been “a disastrous, chaotic mess,” according to a physician union leader who says delayed test results are ...