The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In addition to the cost, the excessive overuse of laboratory testing causes patient discomfort and can lead to hospital-acquired anemia, which results in additional testing, prolonged hospitalizations ...