The COVID-19 pandemic introduced a shortage of blue top blood test tubes, and the experience could reduce wasteful testing even after supply chain issues are rectified. Physicians who were alerted ...

The cell-free DNA (cfDNA) blood collection tube market is ripe with opportunities driven by the rise in lifestyle-related ...

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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 ...

FILE PHOTO: Signage is seen outside of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, U.S. (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an alert on Wednesday ...

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 ...

March 15, 2010 (Atlanta, Georgia) — Using smaller blood tubes decreases the amount of blood collected, does not appear to affect laboratory test results, and reduces the amount of blood drawn overall, ...

A Greater Manchester hospital has become the first in the UK to use a new laboratory system designed to reduce test result waiting times. Royal Oldham Hospital's FlexLab X can process up to 15,525 ...