Blood clotting disorders can be inherited or acquired and lead to either excessive bleeding or too much clotting.

Internal quality control is an integral process of laboratory testing. A clinical laboratory's coagulation quality control (QC) program is a critical component of its quality assessment program. The ...

Addressing the pressing demand for rapid and inexpensive coagulation testing in cardiovascular care, the team led by Lining Arnold Ju from The University of Sydney, introduces a novel application of ...

Health technology company Theranos raised hundreds of millions of dollars from 2003 to 2015 on the promise that its Edison blood-testing machines could do over 240 blood tests with one or two drops of ...

Modern blood testing is the foundation of clinical screening and decision-making. Timely disease diagnosis, prevention and chronic care management depend on accurate diagnostic testing. More than 7 ...

According to published literature, up to 65% of errors occur in the preanalytical phase of laboratory testing, and coagulation assays are particularly sensitive to preanalytical issues. Coagulation ...

A new study led by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center found that blood-based DNA markers known as protein epiScores can help predict which colorectal cancer patients face a higher risk of cancer ...

Research finds microplastics in human blood correlated with lifestyle habits and changes in coagulation markers, emphasizing the need to mitigate exposure and its health risks. Study: Microplastic ...

Using a high-sensitivity blood test (SMAT) that measures initial thrombin generation (ITG)—the very first step of blood clot formation—the researchers analyzed blood samples from 771 patients with ...