Credit: Becton, Dickinson and Company. The system consists of a capillary blood collection tube and a finger sleeve that is intended for use by a trained health care provider, without the need of a ...

The capillary tubes are made for neonates. In neonates, capillary blood samples are desirable over other forms of sampling. This is because frequent blood collection from patients with low blood ...

Theranos had a lot of bad ideas, but making blood draws smaller and easier wasn’t necessarily one of them. A decade after the now-defunct blood-testing startup emerged from stealth, BD has now claimed ...

A device that could make it possible for patients to draw their own blood at home was successfully used to collect blood samples for measuring antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes ...