Up to 70 percent of errors associated with lab results happen way before the tests are even analyzed, according to a report from ECRI Institute’s Patient Safety Organization. Getting a delayed ...

The following items will be discussed in this panel presentation: How samples are collected and processed to be tested in reference laboratories The Best practices in collecting respiratory (swab) ...

WATERFORD, MI -- It begins when a medical professional sticks an unfortunately long Q-tip-like swab into your nose or mouth. It ends when a machine using sophisticated software analyzes the extracted ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has a long history of skepticism when reviewing financial arrangements between laboratories and referral sources, such ...

Last week, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued Advisory Opinion No. 22-09 (AO 22-09), which addresses a proposed arrangement pursuant to ...

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on Tuesday castigated Veterans Administration health officials for ordering the destruction of biomedical specimens on Legionnaires’ disease and other infectious diseases that ...

Lab specimens of anthrax spores, Ebola virus and other pathogens disappeared from the Army’s biological warfare research facility in the early 1990s, during a turbulent period of labor complaints and ...

The New Hampshire Public Health Laboratories is ramping up testing for the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus.>> Download the FREE WMUR appTwo cases of the potentially deadly strain of virus have been ...

Lab specimens of anthrax spores, Ebola virus and other pathogens disappeared from the Army’s biological warfare research facility in the early 1990s, documents from an internal Army inquiry show. The ...