Parents often ask about blood tests during routine pediatric visits, but pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, clarifies that healthy children rarely need them. She shares some of the criteria for ...

Problems continue with the shift of lab services at Allina Health, union doctors say, with caregivers cautioning that delayed test results and reduced services are raising costs and slowing access to ...

Telemedicine provider Doctor On Demand is teaming up with Change Healthcare to leverage its Intelligent Healthcare Network and enable physicians to order lab work based on their patients’ locations.

In another troubling move toward the corporatization of health care, Allina Health recently announced that it will be transferring most clinic-based lab work to Quest Diagnostics, a for-profit company ...

It seems like organized chaos. Five lab members move around a room the size of a galley kitchen. On this day, three high school students also squeeze into the medical lab, closely peering at a pig ...

To use a Tier 1 lab, ask your doctor to fax a lab order to your preferred Tier 1 facility or take a written and signed order with you when you go to the lab. The order will have the information the ...