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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...