A startup offers a unique service, claiming to cleanse your blood of microplastics through a two-hour plasma filtration ...

The discovery that blood carries short fragments of DNA ... equally relevant in other clinical scenarios, including sepsis, bloodstream infections (BSIs), deep-tissue infections, febrile ...

Vitestro's blood drawing (phlebotomy) robot is designed to offer a solution to what the company says is a growing shortage of healthcare personnel, coupled with rising demand for blood tests with ...

Unlike with a traditional blood draw, the patient does not see the needle go into the arm nor the tubes of blood. The process takes about two minutes and has a 95% success rate on the first attempt.

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine is collaborating with Netherlands-based medical robotics company Vitestro to test whether automated blood draw devices can be a scalable solution for U.S. hospitals ...