After a decade of planning, one lab has created a device that might make a common procedure safer and simpler. Late one night in 1982, a Yale University medical student named Martin Yarmush witnessed ...

The practice of drawing blood has changed very little over the decades. It looks about the same now as it did 50 years ago. That process, however, may be about to get a modern makeover. Several health ...

It’s distressing for the patient and perhaps even more distressing for the parents: your child needs a blood test, but the phlebotomist has trouble locating his tiny veins, and is forced to stick him ...

Some people are champs about having blood drawn and even go back as often as they’re allowed to donate blood. If you’re one of those people that’s frickin great. Go pat yourself on the back. If not ...