Patient-focused health care is becoming a top priority in our communities as workforce shortages impact the labour market. Now more than ever, growing fields like medical laboratory technology are ...

Specimens to be tested for COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck Doctors ordering blood tests should try to schedule lab work during business hours on weekdays in light of a “critical shortage” of ...

SYDNEY — The idea of more regulation may send some running but for Sydney phlebotomist Barb Beaton, it could be the best thing to happen yet for her profession. Beaton is a medical lab assistant, a ...

Interior Health says it is trying to support, not undermine, lab assistants with a new program that provides on-the-job training for new healthcare workers who draw blood. The health authority’s ...

A medical lab assistant, left, works at Royal Jubilee Hospital. In response to a shortage of medical lab assistants, the province is providing one-time funding of up to $228,720 for Camosun College s ...

HAMILTON, ON, April 23, 2013 /CNW/ - The Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science (CSMLS) calls for the regulation of medical laboratory assistants (MLAs) in all jurisdictions across Canada to ...

WHEN scientist Alice Keay started working in her dream job in an NHS medical testing laboratory, she thought it was the beginning of a life-long career. The 24-year-old’s role was a £18,000-a-year ...