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IntroductionIn the ICU and operating room, we perform blood sampling from arterial lines almost every day.On the other hand, how much blood should be discarded before sampling is an area where there ...

A new medical device uses microneedles and a suction cup to simplify blood sampling. It aids needle-phobic patients and benefits low-income regions with cost-effective diagnostics. Many patients fear ...

What if we could monitor patients in the future without taking blood samples every time? TU/e researcher Sophie Adelaars investigated a promising alternative: measuring biomarkers in sweat and saliva.

EKF Diagnostics, the global in vitro diagnostics company, has published an Educational Guide which provides a quick overview of capillary blood sampling best practice. It aims to help healthcare ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Aromatic amino acids and peptide backbones “most effectively discriminated” fibromyalgia from other rheumatic ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and SciLifeLab have developed a new method for detecting early signs that the disease type 1 diabetes is going to develop. The ...

The Tasso-M20 device collects four dried blood samples from capillaries in the upper arm with the push of a button and is intended for use in decentralized clinical trials. (Tasso) () Forget finicky ...

A randomized crossover trial in Zambia found that adults living with HIV successfully collected sufficient capillary blood at home far more often with the Tasso+ device than with Collect2Know, ...