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 ...
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, ...
DENVER — Nine years after surviving cancer — and the chemotherapy, mastectomy and radiation that came with it — Sally Inman knows what it is like to fight. She said she's ready to go to battle again, ...
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 ...