Hospital labs perform a critical function that guides clinical decision-making and impacts patient outcomes — and there is growing pressure for health system leaders to expand labs’ orbit of influence ...

The laboratory sits at a unique position in a patient’s diagnostic journey. The information that’s generated from a laboratory test is the critical link between a patient with a medical question and a ...

In today’s quickly evolving healthcare landscape, it’s important for hospital executives to realize that investing in laboratory diagnostics innovation can reap dividends. Three hundred U.S. emergency ...

Until now, a team of late-shift clinical technologists in the University of Alabama at Birmingham analyzed between 4,000 and 5,000 tubes of blood every night, providing information to help guide ...

Hospital officials say that patients should consider factors other than just costs when deciding whether to go to an independent or hospital-based imaging center. For example, physicians sometimes ...

No matter what we look like on the outside, we are all roughly the same shade of red under the skin. That observation was prompted by a visit to the walk-in storage cooler inside the Blood Bank in UAB ...

Reesha Ahmed was on cloud nine. It was January and Ahmed was at an OB-GYN’s office near her home in Venus, Texas, for her first prenatal checkup. After an ultrasound, getting anti-nausea medication, ...

Until now, if you or a family member living in the Northern Westchester Hospital community had a heart attack and called 911, chances are you’d be taken to Danbury Hospital or Stamford Hospital in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 5—Word of Pauls Valley's hospital shutting down because its lab was closed is only partially true, according to the ...