The following items will be discussed in this panel presentation: How samples are collected and processed to be tested in reference laboratories The Best practices in collecting respiratory (swab) ...

Up to 70 percent of errors associated with lab results happen way before the tests are even analyzed, according to a report from ECRI Institute’s Patient Safety Organization. Getting a delayed ...

The landscape of medical assisting education has shifted dramatically in 2026, with programs like yours now leveraging adaptive platforms like Elsevier’s Sherpath directly within Canvas to personalize ...

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on Tuesday castigated Veterans Administration health officials for ordering the destruction of biomedical specimens on Legionnaires’ disease and other infectious diseases that ...

Decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) have taken a major step forward during the pandemic, helping to enable clinical research despite restrictions on travel and investigator site visits. Approaches ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's most secure laboratories may have mislabeled, improperly stored and shipped samples of potentially infectious plague bacteria, which can cause several deadly forms of ...

Last week, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued Advisory Opinion No. 22-09 (AO 22-09), which addresses a proposed arrangement pursuant to ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has a long history of skepticism when reviewing financial arrangements between laboratories and referral sources, such ...

Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County opens a medical lab building in Rock Springs, Wyo., with plans to renovate the existing facility.

Lab specimens of anthrax spores, Ebola virus and other pathogens disappeared from the Army’s biological warfare research facility in the early 1990s, during a turbulent period of labor complaints and ...