Holly Covas is manager of the Medical Laboratory Science Program and Continuing Education at VUMC. Do you know what happens to your blood, tissue and body fluid samples when they are collected for lab ...

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 ...

As a Medical Laboratory professional, I have come to realize that few outside of our laboratory world even realize this field of medicine exists. While many are aware of the employee shortage within ...

U.S. survey from Siemens Healthineers and The Harris Poll indicates laboratory staff are looking for greater support from automation and AI to offset negative side effects of prolonged understaffing ...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, one challenge for all medical professionals has been no organized standard of care across the United States. Our Congress and the President just signed a $484 billion ...

This year April 14-20 is Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, an annual celebration of medical laboratory professionals and pathologists who play a vital role in health care and patient advocacy led ...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has rightly brought to light the lifesaving efforts made by the healthcare providers in our community. That includes the critical but often unseen role played by ...

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 ...

Continued mutations in SARS-CoV-2 mean new and emerging variants, a sign that COVID-19 isn't going away anytime soon, despite a relaxing of public health measures around the country. And due to the ...

Doctors and nurses have been in short supply as the omicron variant sweeps throughout Texas and beyond, but staffing scarcities and COVID-induced burnout are also plaguing another type of healthcare ...