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.

In addition to the cost, the excessive overuse of laboratory testing causes patient discomfort and can lead to hospital-acquired anemia, which results in additional testing, prolonged hospitalizations ...

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.

Labcorp is a global life sciences company headquartered in Burlington, North Carolina. Labcorp provides at-home test kits as well as in-person testing at their laboratory facilities, which are located ...

This study shows automatic, practical, simple, and effective strategies designed in the laboratory, in consensus with requesting clinicians, to improve laboratory test appropriateness. Objectives: The ...

A laboratory technician checks human blood samples before placing the glass tubes on an automated testing line. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images) As Dr. Rodney Rohde, professor of clinical ...