Background: Studies measuring human growth hormone (hGH) in blood during exercise have mainly used venous sampling. The invasive nature of this procedure makes evaluation of hGH impossible in various ...

Background. Reliable reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)–based diagnosis of Ebola virus infection currently requires a blood sample obtained by intravenous puncture. During the ...

The specimen of choice that enables the collection of small blood volumes from neonatal or critically ill patients is a capillary blood specimen. This specimen type has gained favour with many ...

Finger-prick dried blood sampling can accurately measure key Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, including p-tau217, GFAP, and ...

New data suggest that blood glucose monitoring systems that rely on capillary samples may not be as accurate as arterial or venous sampling when used in patients receiving intensive medical ...

Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers measured from finger-prick dried blood samples closely match standard plasma tests and predict ...

New potential for Alzheimer disease biomarker testing found in dried blood collection derived from capillary blood.

Nowadays a blood test usually requires a doctor’s visit, a needle poke in the arm, and a day-long wait for results to come back from a lab. So when Silicon Valley start-up Theranos promised a device ...