The agency said that impurities in the company's Safe-T-Fill EDTA tubes may be related to false positive lead testing results reported by users of Magellan Diagnostics' lead detection tests.

A laboratory technician places human blood samples on an automated testing line. This laboratory, which operates a fully automated system complete with advanced robotics, can test more than 50,000 ...

Healthcare has grappled with a shortage of sodium citrate blood collection tubes — those with a light blue top — since June 2021. But according to an FDA update earlier this year, all blood collection ...

The FDA is recommending that healthcare providers only perform blood draws considered medically necessary, after interruptions in the nationwide supply chain and the COVID-19 pandemic have caused ...

A world-first clinical trial published in JAMA could provide an easy way to save tens of thousands of units of blood every year in Canada and much more worldwide. Most hospitals use standard tubes ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Switching to routine use of small-volume blood draws in adult intensive care units (ICUs) for most laboratory testing appeared to cut blood transfusions without compromising those ...

Using smaller vials to collect blood samples from people in intensive care could help to prevent risky transfusions. The simple change could lower the risk of complications and preserve valuable ...

Researchers found that blood samples collected at home and mailed in can reliably track early Alzheimer’s-related brain ...