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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Diagnostic test developers, including clinical laboratories, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with inspiring creativity to meet patient testing needs. These developers found unique ways to enable ...

Momoko Osuga is a medical laboratory technologist with a specialty in hematology, which is the study of blood and its components. She is one of the many laboratory professionals that play an important ...

Everlywell offers over 30 at-home test kits for food sensitivities, thyroid function, human papillomavirus (HPV), COVID-19, and more. Everlywell is an online company that offers at-home test kits for ...

Does your diet meet your nutritional needs? The test for that is on sale. Want to know if you’re positive for HIV? Quest Diagnostics will tell you for $79. Concerned you have herpes? That test costs ...

Do you love the thought of working in health care, but feel like a nurse, doctor, or other front-line health care professional just isn’t what you are looking for? Do you love mysteries, puzzles, ...