UC Davis Health opened a special blood draw clinic for children with autism, Down syndrome and neurodevelopmental conditions. The PATH Glassrock Blood Draw Clinic is open one day a week by appointment ...

Much of the blood drawn for laboratory analysis is wasted. In a clinical setting where your blood is being taken multiple times a day, wouldn't it be better for the laboratory to use a smaller amount ...

Pediatric medicine is more often than not a “calling” — the result of a personal commitment to reduce suffering in our children. This mission-oriented sense of purpose exists at odds with the economic ...

For children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), routine medical procedures such as having their blood drawn can be very difficult. Communication and social interaction deficits and reliance on fixed ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Hannah Koczka, Vice President of ...

Blood draws are one of the most common invasive medical procedures in the world, yet little has changed about how we do them: for centuries, it’s involved one human sticking another with a needle – ...

While many other areas in the practice of medicine have been augmented by increasingly sophisticated technology, phlebotomy – the practice of drawing blood for laboratory analysis – has remained ...