A company in the Netherlands has developed a robot to draw blood that some participants in a clinical trail say is less ...

Needle-free devices like TAP and Tasso offer painless blood collection, a benefit for the squeamish. These tests face challenges with sample size and accuracy compared to traditional methods. This ...

It promises to make having blood drawn or getting injections far more comfortable and stress-free, but outside of a few testers (who are probably being well-compensated) who among us is willing to ...

To all the nurses out there, how do you do it? Really, how can you stick people with needles on a daily basis, watch blood flow into that little container and not get woozy? You're all superheroes in ...

Nobody likes getting a blood test; at least I can say that I’ve never met anyone who does. Beyond just being unpleasant, though, they’re also outdated, with the same method of puncturing a vein having ...

To do this, researchers at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne developed a tiny device (about half an inch long) to monitor substances in the blood. The device is implanted, by ...

Americans stick a lot of needles in their veins. There's an estimated 2.7 million vein sticks every day in the U.S., and blood tests inform over 70 percent of medical decisions. Venipuncture is a ...