Medical laboratory scientists collect samples and perform lab tests, calibrate and maintain equipment, and perform statistical analysis. Their work is crucial for clinicians to diagnose diseases.

Who do you think performs your medical laboratory tests for COVID-19 or any other test? If you answered "my doctor" or "my nurse" or a robot, you would be completely wrong. To put it bluntly, your ...

A medical laboratory scientist (MLS), also known as a medical technologist or clinical laboratory scientist, works in a medical laboratory analyzing a variety of biological specimens. They are ...

A laboratory technician wearing full personal protective equipment handles live samples taken from people tested for the coronavirus. ANDREW MILLIGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Who do you think ...

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 ...

Mohana Ravindranath is a freelance health, science, and tech journalist and a 2025 Association for Health Care Journalists fellow. She was previously a Bay Area health tech correspondent for STAT.

Pixel by Labcorp is a service offering various at-home and in-person tests for different health conditions. The tests come with step-by-step instructions, and the company works with independent ...

More than half of the Medical Technologist jobs are in hospitals. Most of the remaining jobs are in offices of physicians and in medical and diagnostic laboratories. Rapid job growth and excellent job ...

Platinum-Free Systemic Therapy in First-Line Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma: Mirage or Oasis in the Platinum Desert? Cancer predictive or diagnostic assays, offered as Laboratory-Developed Tests ...

The Food and Drug Administration says some laboratory developed tests are unreliable and potentially hurt patients. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post) The Food and Drug Administration on ...

Dear Minister Jones, We are writing to ask that you stop LifeLabs/Quest from sending Ontario patients laboratory specimens to Quest’s reference laboratories in the United States ...